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> Scugog Citizen -- Tuesday, July 31, 1007 -- I1_4& LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ya gotta watch out for those cookie recipe stories! To the editor: Oh no! Someone else got suckered by the expensive cookie story! | refer to your July 14 issue which described a cookie recipe a woman supposedly received from Neiman Marcus at a cost of "two- fifty" It turned out that she'd been DJ service "unfairly criticized': reader FROM PAGE 20 myself. | was very insulted at a council meeting | auended March 30, 1992 when | was referred to by Councillor Pearce as a "high school child" This was said in front of a cou- ple of my clients. | have since supplied Councillor Pearce with 36 pieces of idenuficauon includ- ing my graduauon diploma which I hope will remedy the problém with myself being considered a child Councillor Carruthers also took a shot at the dances, after the ruckus which occurred during Moris CONVINCED Me To | 60 To COLLEGE THIS FALL Festival Days. May | point out that the dance was over at mid night, the fights and problems occurred by those who attended the beer tent in Palmer Park. If any teens came from the beer tent, I do not think you can push that one on us Why 1s Councillor Pearce not pushing to take Festival Days away from the Chamber of Commerce as quickly as she tok the teen dances away from Rebel D.J. Service, especially gs Rebel DJ. Service was punished for unrelated circumstances. Perhaps she has changed her mind about ) [ a | i | Blue Collar Bart (OF: IR I: 18 S To Place Your Service Directory Ad in the Scugog Citizen THE SKY MAR! the nght to free enterprise and now disagrees with monopoliza uon It certainly looks Like it will be a long ume before Steve McEachern will be acknowledged for the time and money he has spent in organizing the many youth acuviues he has conducted in the past Anyone sull confused or hav ing questions can certainly feel free 10 call me for the real story My number at work 1s 571-1800 or at home 728-1369 Scott McEachern, Insurance Salesman CL | CANT DECIDE | | SHE sap | BETWEEN (COMPUTERS || | EDUCATION [Or GRAPHIC DESIGN. /| | CAN MAKE fou o hess. charged $250 and she was repeat- ing the recipe so that others would have it for free This story showed up in "Curses! Broiled Again!" by Jan Harold Brunvand, who collects these "urban legends" into books According to him, the story was first levelled at Mrs. Fields Cookie Company He believes it may have stemmed from an carlier story regarding Red Velvet Cake in the 1950s, and before that, a Fudge Cake Recipe for $25 in 1948 Brunvand's version of the Mrs Field's cookie recipe, which was identical to the one you printed except for the company, appeared in his book 1n 1989 Interesungly enough, the same week you ran the story, the Toronto Star printed Ann F uke, out of MY | LOOM So THE BABY NI HAVE 17 / | Landers' colurgn with exactly the same recipe story, except that the writer was from the United States. Neiman-Marcus was the store mentioned As Ann Landers pointed out « and having bought cookies at Neiman-Marcus, | can vouch for -- Nemman-Marcus only sells the cookies, they don't make them Chances are they wouldn't even have the recipe Jil Mcintosh, Oshawa. 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