Jim - your wife's maiden name is 'Neiman', isn't it? :-{ ) JD
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Petrolati [SMTP:gpetrola@prairienet.org]
Sent: March 8, 1999 3:56 PM
To: JIM_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: cookies
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 JIM_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com wrote:
>
> When I saw the cookie recipe I felt I should show it to my
wife, just
> in case she was in the mood to make some up.
> She thought the recipe looked familiar, and guess what, it is
EXACTLY
> the recipe on the back of the bag of the no-name cookie mix
you get in
> the supermarket around here, only all quantities are doubled.
> (I'm talking about the first recipe, not the one that
Nieman-Marcus
> subsequently put out.)
> She made a chocolate cake instead. I can live with that.
> Jim Wallace
>
Not to throw warm milk on an otherwise neat story...
But I've heard the "recipe" story several other times...
Mostly with a Neiman-Marcus recipe, other times with the
cookies comming from Abercromby & Fitch...
I think this is an "Urban Legend"... A yummy one
none-the-less.
Greg Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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