7.0 This has come up once too often....
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This article is from the Cooking and Conversions FAQ, by with numerous contributions by Victor Sack cooking.faq@mac.com others.
7.0 This has come up once too often....
This list is a (futile?) attempt to keep certain well-worn subjects from
coming up yet again. Further suggestions always welcome.
The $250 cookie recipe
This recipe comes up often, usually here but also on other newsgroups
(where it is even less appropriate). The story goes that a woman had a
cookie at [usually Mrs. Field's or Neiman Marcus' cafe], and liked it
so much she wanted the recipe. The clerk said "It will cost you
two-fifty"; the woman thought that meant $2.50 and was shocked to find
it meant $250. She is now spreading it to get revenge, since it was not
returnable.
There are a number of holes in the story, and no one has ever brought
forth any evidence that it really happened. (If you want to argue that
you know someone who knows someone who this really happened to, take it
over to alt.folklore.urban, where they will proceed to have you for
breakfast if you have no evidence.) More importantly, it has been
posted more than enough times by now. Some people have tried the recipe
and pronounced it good, but it ain't Mrs. Field's. If you would like
the recipe, ask for someone to mail it to you.
It has been pointed out to me that the recipe is in the standard source
distribution for GNU Emacs and XEmacs. If your site has that source,
look in the "etc" directory for a file named COOKIES.
Most importantly, please DO NOT post it any more. There is also a Mrs
Fields cookbook, published by Time-Life. This has recipes, but not the
exact ones for the ones sold in the stores, as those recipes are not
well suited to home baking.
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