Cindy McCain Stole Her Cookie Recipe Straight from the Hershey's Website!

Oops! She did it again!


From the Family Circle "Presidential Cookie Bake-Off" - the candidates' spouses were asked for recipes for this cookie contest. Bill credited his recipe to the family cook, Michelle to the girls' godmother. And Cindy?

Bwahahahaha....stone cold busted, AGAIN

http://www.parents.com/recipes/recipedetail.jsp?recipeI...

CorneliaMarieGirl wrote:
very good cookies, they are almost an exact copy of oatmeal scotchies from a very popular butterscotch chip maker...only a 1/4 cup of butter is the differance

Isn't that the McCain mantra this year?

I've noticed that nearly every page of the comments section at the recipe's website has at least one person pointing out Cindy's plagiarism.

I can't believe she did it again. How arrogant can you be?

buy all the Mrs. Fields that she wants.

She probably just asked one of her servants to send out some recipes to make her look "homey".

I love how it's a "family favorite" - yeah right!

these people are completely dishonest.

the very least she could have said is, "got these recipes from food network, and my family and friends love them", NOt "these are treasured family recipes" or whatever she said

Unreal.

http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/cookies...

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(Seriously, I have a really bad toothache right now. Ibuprofen isn't cutting it. Must go pay the dentist some money soon....)

That will deaden that side of your mouth - seriously.

Sir, I salute you!!

Do you have a Kos Diary? That would help blast this lousy move out to the world.

Kos is so full of itself.

I can dig it But, if it doesn't get the attention it deserves...?

But let's see what happens...

Frankly, I hope Family Circle disqualifies Mrs. McCain.

This will be out soon! Hah hah hah!

You can't make this shit up.

I saw a comment at the recipe page that said the recipe was the same as the butterscotch chips package, so I googled butterscotch chips and there it was, first place I looked! *Pats self on back*

It's so funny!

I love it. I love it!

She's a serial recipe appropriator!

Loonix is saying this.. I think he is thinking about the first swiped recipe...

bet she could use a good laugh

Do you?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

LOL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Bloggers Find Something Fishy In McCain Site's 'Family Recipes'

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 16, 2008; Page A05

Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad as you peruse the recipes on her husband's campaign Web site.
Or you could have, until yesterday, when that part of the site was taken down after bloggers revealed that several of the "McCain Family Recipes" were, in fact, copied word for word from the Food Network.

Cindy McCain's tuna recipe was actually developed and submitted to the Food Network by cookbook author and former "Cooking Thin" host Kathleen Daelemans. The recipe for farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms was a "quick pasta classic" from the TV show "Everyday Italian." That old McCain standby -- rosemary chicken -- was a creation of TV chef Rachael Ray and was lifted, with a few changes, from the same Food Network site.

All three were listed on a McCain Web page titled "Cindy's Recipes."

"Apparently a Web intern added Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds deadpanned yesterday. "He was swiftly dealt with, and the page is down for revision."

i'm going to give cindy a pass on this. people get baking recipes from a variety of sources - rarely does anyone know the original source. my kids would tell you that my recipe for chocolate chip cookies is the best recipe in the world, but if you looked at my hand scribbled recipe, you might notice that it is almost identical to the recipe printed on the back of a bag of nestlé chocolate chips.

She's done this TWICE now.

cookie recipes get passed around.

however, i never thought i'd find myself in a position of defending cindy mccain -i'm kind of creeped out about the whole idea of it. yuck!

(i far prefer Michelle's shortbread cookie recipe anyway.)

edit: typo

She won't even name the "good friend" who gave her the recipe. Our Democrats both credit the source. Look at how the wording is identical except for the brand of chips and the last direction. When you are scribbling a recipe off a package you don't write all that stuff out.

You'd write 1 cup flour, 1 tsp. vanilla. Those qualifiers are revealing. It's clearly a cut and paste job.

okay, that's a very good point.

No way. Cut and paste, for sure.

Granulated sugar works differently from confectioner's sugar. Likewise, all-purpose flour and bread flour work differently in recipes, and you should specify which.

if you are in recovery. I can't use real vanilla in my recipes and must use fake.

is just sad and outdated. I too can't get on the bash-her-for-this bandwagon. Yes, she could have said where the recipe came from but I'm sure she's lied about things of much more substance than this.

ps. Most people lie about recipies....

Hence the general hilarity. You'd think they'd be a little more careful this time.

refuse to participate is stupider still.

She's lazy and a plagiarizer for two obvious glaring signs.

This is a First Lady tradition I don't appreciate in the least.

And he gave the one he liked to eat, not cook. Sexism is in the eye of the beholder.

first she's done this plagiarsim thing with recipes..did you give "her a pass" on the other one, too?

I even shared it with the world:

http://www.newadventuresofqueenvictoria.com/recipes-1.p...

If something exists, it must be for Cindy!

especially when they try and blame the help for their drug thefts.

on stealing everyone else's recipes?

So I know she copied the recipe from the back of the butterscotch chips bag (or her servant did).

My thoughts exactly.

I doubt Cindy has ever made these cookies.

And it's really, really funny to watch the vain, narcissistic, drug-addled Paris McCain try to pretend to be a good Republican Housewife.

seriously, who cares? There are plenty of important issues to go after her husband about. Where she got her cookie recipes doesn't really matter, does it?

She's already been caught once stealing recipes and pretending they were her own.

Did Michelle claim she made up her own recipe from scratch?

How many of us make cookies from recipes we created? I'm guessing very few. We might tweak a recipe already published somewhere, but I think few of us have the cooking know how to create one out of thin air.

This whole thing is very sexist. Neither of those women's cookie recipes should matter to anyone. We have big problems in this country- maybe you haven't noticed...

Cindy said she got hers from a "family friend." Her friend is named Hershey's Inc., apparently. I am not saying she should have created her own recipe, but to copy and paste a recipe from the Hershey's website and then say it is a family favorite gotten from a family friend is, well what would you call that, a LIE, I guess, is the correct term.

jesus this is nearly the stupidest topic I've seen here. WHO THE FUCK CARES???????????????

I'm outta here. Have fun with your cookies.

While simultaneously insinuating that Michelle Obama is some sort of America-hating anti-mom.

Does a stolen recipe matter in the grand scheme? Probably not. What does matter is the lying. This is the second time Ms. McCain has been caught lying about her culinary skills. The fact that with all her riches, she couldn't take the time to pay a professional baker to invent a unique recipe shows that team McCain, once again, JUST.DOESN'T.GET.IT.

It is a petty and shallow act by petty and shallow people.

And how it's a "family favorite" when it was CLEARLY just copy and pasted from the website. Who writes out "packed light" brown sugar when they give you a recipe? Who says to mix in a "large" bowl? Cut & paste job, clearly.

it will be more of the same.. In this case more of the same deception and lying on the part of the Republicans... Since this is the history of this woman, I would say it would be quite a topic indeed... If Michelle had done this, trust me the Republicans would be up in arms with pitchforks, ready to destroy her reputation....

here.

It's like she can't help it. She even steals (and then lies) about recipes, for God's sake. Not just drugs, not just money, but recipes.

well why not lol

I hope this gets covered tomorrow!

Perhaps on the grand scale of things, scanners and recipes aren't big deals. However, I think that little things sometimes tell you a lot about a person.

media-granted teflon.

Please take your sanctimonious indignity elsewhere.

Rachael Rae and Hreshey's have stolen her recipes.

It shows how dishonest Cindy McCain is to try and pass other people's ideas off as her own.

Arrogant enough to do it again after she was caught the first time.

It speaks to her CHARACTER. Or, more accurately,
her utter LACK of it.

Cindy, when you're going to pass off your cooks' recipes as your own, be sure to at least know where they got them from.

As I pointed out above, note the formatting of the ingredients. When you copy a recipe out by hand you don't write out "all purpose" flour. You don't put the dash in 1-1/2 cups. Etc.

Everything else is in Official Recipese.

Mind you, I am a completely awful cook (I messed up cole slaw, for god's sake!), so I'm not entirely qualified to make these statements...

In any case, the order of indgredients are the same, the ingredients are the same (except that there's 1/12 of a cup fewer butterscotch chips - presumably Cindy stole them from the intended recipients of the cookies), and while the directions look different, they're actually saying the exact same thing - they're only very oddly rewritten, I think in an attempt to hide the source.

My best cole slaw recipe:

Mix shredded Napa cabbage (one head), carrots (2 or 3 large), and thinly sliced red onions (one medium, or less, to your taste) in a bowl. Make a dressing by mixing Newman's Own Balsamic Salad Dressing and mayonnaise (Hellmans!) to a creamy consistency. Pour dressing over the cabbage mix, sprinkle with salt & pepper to taste, toss, and refrigerate so the flavors can blend. Delish!

stealing recipes and passing them off in one of these things?

This is an entirely new recipe contest.

http://redblueamerica.com/blog/2008-04-15/scandal-did-c...
http://internetservices.readingeagle.com/editor/archive...

Here's the two cookie recipes from the second link:

McCain: http://www.yankeemagazine.com/recipes/search/onerecipe....
Quaker: http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cookie/3-minute_no-bake_coo...

This is a new event, today!

Cindy tells you what size bowls to use.

Case closed.

Hershey's says, "Beat butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar in large bowl..."

Another intern is about to get FIRED!

that is the same size in my book....

It's just hysterical how they tried to disguise the recipe by moving "large bowl" from the beginning to the end of the sentence.

Round here, sometimes very hard to tell... Sarcasm thingy is my friend... lol

Does the woman even cook? That's what I want to know.

The shameless lies, the theft, it does not reflect well on them, and in a family magazine.