[MR] (OT) Revenge best served....sweet!

[Dave Aronson]

Tanith of Hawkwood wrote:

> I recieved this from a friend of mine and just had to pass it on.

Please don't.  See below for why.

> THIS IS A TRUE STORY
>  My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a
> Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert.
> Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the
> "Neiman-Marcus cookie."

This may have been a true story once upon a time, but it is one of the
CLASSIC "foaf" (friend of a friend) Urban Legends, has been floating
around the Internet and other such media for literally decades, and has
contained many different recipes.

Before forwarding ANYTHING that says to do so (which is usually a good
tipoff that it is a hoax or possibly a scam), check for info about it on
the web.  (Of course, one or two sites "confirming" it is not enough; in
the case of at least *classic* Urban Legends, there should be dozens of
sites debunking it.)  Good sites for this include urbanlegends.about.com
and snopes.com.  Using Google to search for "Neiman-Marcus cookie
recipe" (w/o quotes) yields among the top ten, such sites as:

 http://bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
 http://www.texascooking.com/features/may99redvelvet.htm
 http://www.snopes2.com/business/consumer/cookie.htm
 http://www.english.uga.edu/~clandrum/example_html/urban.example.html
 http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-7311128-8-7150402-1.html
 http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol19.htm
 http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/cookiecl.shtml

and http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/service/nmAbout.jhtml where NM
gives out a (if not the) cookie recipe absolutely FREE (at least now).

--
David J. Aronson, Software Engineer for hire in Washington DC area.
See http://dja2001.home.att.net for online resume, references, etc.