Here's your cookie recipe, i got the story from a friend, who got it from the actual victim!

| SUBJECT:  EXPENSIVE LESSON - $250.00 COOKIE RECIPE
|  
|   My daughter and I had finished a salad at the Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas
| and decided to have a small desert.  Because our family members are such
| "Cookie Monsters", we decided to try the Neiman-Marcus Cookie.  It was so
| good that I asked if they would give me the recipe.  She said with a frown,
| "I'm afraid not", "Well", I said, "Would you let me buy the recipe?"  With a
| cute smile, she agreed.  I asked how much, and she responded "Two Fifty".
| I said with approval, "Just add it to my tab".
|  
|   Thirty days later I received my statement from Neiman-Marcus and it was
| $285.00.  I looked again and remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two salads
| and about $20 for a scarf.  As I glanced at the bottom of the statement said
| "Cookie Recipe-$250".  Boy was I upset!  I called Neiman's accounting office
| and told them the waitress said it was "two fifty" and did not realize she
| meant $250 for a cookie recipe.  I asked them to take back the recipe and
| reduce my bill, but they said they were sorry, but all recipes were this
| expensive so not just anyone could duplicate the bakery recipes...the bill
| would stand.
|  
|   I thought of how I could try to get even or try to get my money back.
| I just said okay, you folks got my $250 and now I'm going to have $250 worth
| of fun.  I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover
| will have the $250 recipe from Neiman-Marcus for nothing.  She replied "I
| wish you wouldn't do this."  I said, "I'm sorry, but this is the only way I
| feel I can get even and I will."  So here it is, please pass it on to someone
| else or run a few copies...I paid for it, so now you can have it for free!!!
|  
|         2 cups butter                  		 1 tsp. salt
|         2 cups sugar                   			2 tsp. baking powder
|         2 cups brown sugar              2 tsp. soda
|         4 eggs                          				24 oz. chocolate chips
|         2 tsp. vanilla                  			1-8 oz. Hershey bar, grated
|         4 cups flour                  			  3 cups chopped nuts
|         5 cups blended oatmeal*
|  
|   Cream butter and both sugars.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Mix together with
| flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda.  Add chocolate chips, Hershey
| bar and nuts.  Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
| Bake for 10 minutes at 375.  Makes 112 cookies (recipe may be halved).
|  
| * Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
|  
|   Have fun!  This is not a joke - this is a true story!!!!!