Girl Scout Cookies

Marg, Keebler sells something very much like the GS Thin Mints, called the Grasshopper. And they are available year around. BTW, I agree, Samoas are better, Keebler even "copied" them, too, but I don't think they still bake them (not so popular?)

Bought a box of "caramel de lites." Ate a few, made the mistake of looking at the ingredients. Frankenstein cookies, they are.

JG, you're welcome to the box of Thin Mints in my freezer. I'll even meet you in Palm Coast :p

Seriously, they aren't bad crumbled up on top of ice cream. That's what my wife says we put them in the freezer for, and that makes sense. I did find them behind all of the ice cream that I tossed because we finished all but about a scoop out of the carton.

Why is is OK for little girls to accost me at the grocery store, but if my son and I tried selling stuff to support his karting habit, we'd be thrown off the property?

I don't buy them for the same reason I don't buy the "Come to our Car Wash so we can go to Cheercamp" or some such bunk. If you signed up for it, you're parents (or you) should figure out how to pay for it.

-Rob

Interesting note, Rob. I laugh when I see Boy/Girl Scout people shilling cookies or candy right under the "No Soliciting" signs.

rob_lewis wrote: Why is is OK for little girls to accost me at the grocery store, but if my son and I tried selling stuff to support his karting habit, we'd be thrown off the property?

Put a pretty name to it, sponsored by a non-profit. Have more than one kid. Done.

Thin mints. Then, eventually, after a long line then on down somewhere near forever, is everything else.

Joey

rob_lewis wrote: Why is is OK for little girls to accost me at the grocery store, but if my son and I tried selling stuff to support his karting habit, we'd be thrown off the property? I don't buy them for the same reason I don't buy the "Come to our Car Wash so we can go to Cheercamp" or some such bunk. If you signed up for it, you're parents (or you) should figure out how to pay for it. -Rob

Don't worry, someone out there is making up for it. On day in high school my friend and I got our cars washed seven times in one saturday. The sad part is they were cleaner when we left the house.

I bet they aren't even made from girl scouts.

Lemon sammich cookies rock!

And I can't believe it's either Thin Mints or Health Care Reform, you haven't heard enough in the last 14 months?

Oy.

I don't mind it (TOO much) when a Girl Scout "accosts" me outside a grocery store and asks me to buy her cookies, what bothers me is when their parents do the accosting for them. And in this area, you see A LOT of kids standing on street corners/at intersections with buckets, asking/begging(?) for donations. I'd much rather buy, or not, that box of cookies or candy bar or car wash, than I would drop my change in their buckets. When I was a kid, our school had a once a year hoagie sale....of course that was WAAY before Subway appeared in our town. We also had the occasional spaghetti dinner. In other words, we did something to EARN those donations....unlike many kids today.

Ridgewood High Schools car washes were epic. I remember we had about 1500 students washing cars in the Gulf View Square Mall parking lot in 1985. Absolute gridlock as well.

So the girl scout handed me the most beat up box of Samoas. To my surprise, the cookies in the tray were fine but there was an extra row of smashed ones jammed in the box, free-balling in the area where rat dander, etc. is packaged. MMMMM tainted cookies. I washed them down with enough beer to kill the germs, toxins & droppings.

Wally wrote: I never understood the thin mint popularity myself. A ggod cookie has peanut butter in it. I like frozen Tagalongs myself

You speaketh the truth.

My daughter is a Daisy, watching large quantities of delicious cookies move through my house was painful. Did keep a couple of Tagalogs laying around though...

I've got year round cookie fixes figured out for my top 3:
Lemon Cremes - Food Lion, Murray's Lemon Cremes, ~$2.00 a package
Samoas - Dollar General has something just like them, ~$1.00 a box
Tagalongs - Fred's has something just like them, ~$1.00 a box

alex wrote: Get all GRB (Grassroots Baking) and make your own:

Just don't try and sell the ones you make.... Wasn't it Mass and NY that recently started cracking down on bake sales because the home kitchens weren't inspected by the health department?

alex wrote: Frozen Thin Mints. They're the thinking man's cookie.

      + eleventy billion

I love the thin mints either from the fridge or the freezer!

Anyone who complains about the cost or quality of Girl Scout cookies has OBVIOUSLY never tried Cub Scout popcorn.

Makes the disgusting usury priced artery clogging crap at the movie theatre look like charitable health food.

Paying for Girl Scout cookies is much easier to digest if you think about it as a $3.50 donation with a box of cookies thrown in as a thank you.