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A little
background:
Woolworths, if you
don't know already, is a very expensive clothing and supermarket outlet (they
sell a typical R50 T-shirt for R150). My daughter and I had just
finished lunch at a Woolies Cafe in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. Because
both of us are such biscuit lovers, we decided to try the 'Woolies Cookie'.
It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe.
The waitress said with a small frown, 'I'm afraid not, but you can buy
the recipe.'
I asked how much, and
she responded; 'Only two fifty - it's a great deal'
I agreed to that, and
told her to add it to my bill.
Thirty days later, I
got my Visa statement, and the Woolworths charge was R485. I looked at it
again, and I remembered I had only spent R49.95 for two sandwiches and about
R120 for a scarf. At the bottom of the statement, it said, 'Cookie Recipe -
R250.00'. That was outrageous!
I called Woolworths
Accounting Department and told them the waitress had said it was 'two fifty',
which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty Rands' by any reasonable
interpretation of the phrase. Woolworths refused to budge. They would
not refund my money because according to them; 'What the waitress told you is
not our problem. You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely
will not refund your money.
I explained to the
Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the
state of Gauteng. I threatened to report them to the Better Business
Bureau and The Attorney General's office. I was basically told: Do what
you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother
trying to get any of your money back'
I said, OK, you've
got my R250, and now I'm going to have R250 worth of fun. I told her that I
was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the world with an e-mail
account gets a R250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus for free. She
replied, 'I wish you wouldn't do that.' I said, 'Well, perhaps you should have
thought of that before you RIPPED ME OFF!' and slammed down the phone.
So here it is! Please
pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid R250 for this,
and I don't want Woolworths to EVER make another cent from this recipe!
WOOLIES
COOKIES
(Recipe may be halved as this makes heaps)
2
(500 ml) cups butter
680
g chocolate chips
4
(1000 ml) cups flour
2
(500 ml) cups brown sugar
2
tsp. (10 ml) Bicarbonate of soda
1
tsp. (5 ml) salt
2
(500 ml) cups sugar
500
g Grated Cadbury chocolate
5
(1250 ml) cups blended oatmeal
4
eggs
2
tsp. (10 ml) baking powder
2
tsp. (10 ml) vanilla
3
cups (375 ml) chopped nuts (optional)
Measure
oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both
sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking
powder, and bicarbonate of soda. Add chocolate chips, grated Chocolate and
nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for
10 minutes at 180 C.
The above
quantities make 112 cookies. Enjoy!
PLEASE KEEP THE
RECIPE AND PASS IT ON TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW… (The sisterhood
in action!)
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