favorite Girl Scout Cookies

[Wickerman]

Weird - Ya got yer Boy Scouts (who were smart enough to kick me out when I was 13), which at the corporate level support a homophobic philosophy.

In the Girls Scouts, you got you have an org at the heart that supports Planned Parenthood, teaches girls independence, And has been supportive of the union workers striking at the West Coast grocery chains.

Show the GS that you support their progressive stances and buy some cookies from the cute little gals selling them outside your supermarket or convenience store.

Here are your choices this year - vote for one!

(note that names vary by region - we sell All Abouts up here in MN, but I don't find them on the National site)



Peanut Butter Patties - Tagalongs

Caramel Delights - Samoas

Pinatas

Classic Shortbread

Thin Mints

Lemon Pastry Cremes - Reduced Fat

Peanut Butter Sandwiches - Do-si-dos

Animal Treasures

[Goldberg]

1. Mmmmmmmmm..........thin mints........

:drool:

[Nay]

7. Yeah! The best!

They always have been my favorites, with the shortbread ones close behind. And yes, let's support the very progressive Girl Scouts.

[fortyfeetunder]

35. Thin mints- better than s-x

Leave the rest to y'alls imagination...I buy 2 freeze 2...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

2. You guys should have bought some from me

I'm a registered independent Girl Scout.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Did you get kicked out of Scouts for eating a "brownie"??

Bwahahahahahaaaa !!!!

:evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

4. Since when do samoas get shaped like hexagons?

I bought 6 boxes, yet to arrive.

I noticed cost had gone up 50 cents per box. (that's okay, don't get me wrong!...)

They used to be round. Is this hexagonal gambit meant to cut costs?! Okay, it would take about the bits shaved off of 5 or 6 cookies to make one new cookie, but still! :silly:

And when will these cookies be made with real girl scouts? :9 Otherwise, isn't it misleading advertising? That's illegal. I smell a lawsuit coming...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

8. They've always been hexagons nt

[Wickerman]

9. I think it varies by region

From what I learned nabbing pics for the poll there are two bakeries that are contracted to do the work. Maybe they have their choice of how they do it. I know here in Minnesota last year our Samoas were Round - below LPFF sez they have always been Hex'd. :shrug:

6 boxes? - mmmmmmm! Cookie party at Hypno Toad's house!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. lunabush is right

There are two bakers, ABC and Little Brownie. Bakers are required to bake Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwiches (Do-si-dos) and Trefoils (Shortbread). There are 5 additional kinds of cookies they can bake, but the names vary between the two bakers. I'm sure size and shape also vary :)

They've always been hexagonal when I've bought the Caramel Delights. Maybe they are hex'd and the Samoa versions are round.

[Wickerman]

17. a most knowledgable Scout

How many boxes did you sell this year?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

19. 40

:)

[wellstone_democrat]

32. Samoas are round here in TX

I bought 2 boxes and wish I had bought six---nothing else is quite like a Samoa.

[Wickerman]

34. I thought they were

I used to buy them when I lived down there and I didn't recall them being hex. Man, I hope our order gets a hurrying!

[Deja Q]

11. Okay, that makes sense...

I wonder if they'll be hex'd in Minnesota this year... the pictures of the Samoas on the sign-up sheet were round.

Uh-oh. That's misadvertising and that's not legal. Is it lawsuit time? :evilgrin: </sarcasm>

Thanks for the edification! I never knew they used 2 separate bakeries... :9 GS cookies are rather popular...

Despite my earlier sarcasm, I dig the shape. Hexagons are rather cool looking and I love hexagonal shapes...

You're in Minnesota too? :yourock:

[Wickerman]

14. We had round Samoas

and I AM expecting round Samoas - Someone has some 'splaining to do if the are hex'd. Well, maybe it would be ok - as long as they taste ok.

Yep, Minnesota is home now. I live down the the R'puke dominated Rochester area.

[Lindacooks]

5. And are you ever right!!

The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are unbelievably different. My dh, right out of college, worked for the Boy Scouts (he is an Eagle Scout) and it was a horrible job - 12 hours/day for shit wages. And the organization is totally anti-family too. They work their employees to death. We had been married for 3 weeks and he had to go to a 3 week training session in Dallas. I came along, paying my own way (returning wedding presents to do to) and BS management about had a fit. ('She's going to drag his career down!!' was one of the more laughable comments.)

As time went by in the training session, all the other (male) new hires were going to strip clubs and getting drunk and showing up hungover, and my dh showed up for meetings bright-eyed and wide awake. And he STILL got crap, because the other new hires were 'bonding' (albeit at strip clubs, which they didn't want to hear about).

He left after a year, and would never recommend them as employers.

Then, of course, the homophobe thing has proven to the world that the Boy Scouts are a bunch of first class assholes.

[Deja Q]

6. YIPES!

The homophobia thing is silly enough, but 12 hour days for horrid wages, etc... that is anti-family. Very anti-family.

That's it, you've got it spot-on! Dems are seen as anti-business. The Dems need to fight back by saying repukes are anti-family!!! We'd win everywhere, for real.

[St. Jarvitude]

21. Not only are the BSA homophobic and anti-family

But they, at least at the higher level, are also very militaristic and anti-pacifism. They also hate anyone who doesn't believe in one God. It's pretty scary.

My troop at least had a very cool, liberal SM. He left when the folks above him got to him, and I took off with him. My favorite thing about him is that he refused to shop at WalMart because they drove out at least three dozen small businesses when they infected our community.

I've heard much better things about the Scout programs outside of the US. Yes, I say "Scout programs" because elsewhere, it's one organizatio and not segregated like it is here.

[curse10]

12. The Peanut Butter Patties taste different now

or maybe its regional?

In Denver they were Tagalongs, and yummy! In Boston they are Peanut Butter Patties and not nearly as good. I was so sad when I started eating them this year :-(

[donco6]

13. Do-si-dos and Milk! Yummy!

Just got my order.

[ComerPerro]

15. Thin Mints and Carmel Delights

And damn whoever posted the first Girl Scout Cookie thread, I don't know if this was inspired by the thread in GD or what...

but damn it.

I have to go now...

MUST.....

BUY........

COOKIES.......

[Wickerman]

16. so inspired

and dammit,they aren't even avaliable in this area, yet! mmmmm, carmel delites - mmmm, thin mints...

[harper]

18. You guys know that the animal treasures

have a tasty chocolate layer on the back of the cookie. And the cookie is really big...much bigger that it appears in that picture. Really yummy.

[Pithlet]

20. Thin mints!

I just blew my diet and ate a quarter of a box in one sitting. At least I helped a good cause :)

[TheMightyFavog]

22. *grabs a BBQ fork and gets that insane look on his face...

Touch my Thin Mints, and I get stabby.

[methinks2]

24. Oh yeah, well . . . fork you first

Fork YOU hahahahahhahaha :crazy:

[methinks2]

23. thin mints

although we have the caramel ones in the house right now. Actually I love all of them. Every one! The damn things are outrageously expensive! I wonder how much of each box sold actually goes to the troop?

[Wickerman]

28. 2$ of the 3 stays in the local community

for troop stuff and area administration.

Of that, I know that my step daughter gets to keep 60 cents towards her girl scout camp this summer.

from the FAq

Where does the money go?
Two-thirds or more of the purchase price stays in the local community. Your Girl Scout Council uses cookie money to fund membership services, activities and other costs associated with making Girl Scouting available to girls in your area. In addition, troops and groups earn proceeds from the sale – and the girls themselves participate in deciding how the money will be spent.

http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/sa/faqs.htm

[Scottie72]

25. I glady buy several boxes every year

just for there progressive views and the good that they do.

OTH I gladly decline to support the BSA and I am more than happy to tell them exacltly why I don't support, plus I tell them what they have to do earn my support.

Buy Girl Scout Cookies!

[philosophie_en_rose]

26. Even worse - Girl Scout Ice Cream

[Wickerman]

27. oh man, I gots to get me some of that!

I love ice cream!

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. Get it while you can.

It's seasonal.

Some of the proceeds go to the Girl Scouts. I like to freeze the real cookies anyway, but the ice cream is still mighty tasty.

[Zomby Woof]

30. I downed half a box of Thin Mints today at work

*urp* Loves me them cookies.

[Kat45]

31. Thin Mints would be my classic fave, but

my new fave is Animal Treasures. Ordered a box of each from my friend's daughter.

[sistersofmercy]

33. Do-si-dos! Only GS cookies I'll eat. n/t

[Piperay]

36. Thin mints

no doubt about it!:9

[arwalden]

37. Samoas (Also Known As "Caramel Delights")

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. I have 8 boxes of thin mints in my freezer right now...

yummy! MrGrumpy gets mad when I order because I always forget his shortbreads. :hi: