I know I should be thinking about more important things, like the health care reform bill, but instead I'm staring at the box of Thin Mints on my desk and thinking, "Why are these the top sellers when Samoas (or, as the new socialist government has decreed them, "Caramel deLights") are soooooo much better?
Margie
I never understood the thin mint popularity myself. A ggod cookie has peanut butter in it. I like frozen Tagalongs myself
My daughter is a Daisy & I just got done moving boat loads of Samoas.
Why are Girl Scout cookies not as good as anything you can find in the grocery? Why don't they just peddle something awesome like Oreos or M&Ms since we all have to buy them anyway to avoid becoming a social pariah. The high school football team peddles Chunky bars and even though I hate their cause... damn if I don't want me some hand-delivered Chunky.
Not to be a spoil sport, but while I like the Thin Mints best, I'd rather just donate real money to the GS as the cookies have become a rip off at the price you pay for the amount you receive. The cookie company is profiting more than the GS.
Marjorie Suddard wrote: I know I should be thinking about more important things, like the health care reform bill, but instead I'm staring at the box of Thin Mints on my desk and thinking, "Why are these the top sellers when Samoas (or, as the new socialist government has decreed them, "Caramel deLights") are soooooo much better? Margie
I gotta agree 100% here. I love me some Samoas (didn't know they used to be called that til just now).
In my family, GS cookies are guarded and fought over like plutonium. Samoas rule, but thin mints and tagalongs are runners-up on the podium.
carguy123 wrote: Not to be a spoil sport, but while I like the Thin Mints best, I'd rather just donate real money to the GS as the cookies have become a rip off at the price you pay for the amount you receive. The cookie company is profiting more than the GS.
That depends on how much the GS gets them for. I'm happy to pay the amount, its a good cookie, and if a significant portion of it goes to the GS, yay.
Mmmmm, girl scouts...
Wait, did that come out wrong? 
How have your GS cookies lasted this long? Unless you bought dozens of boxes... My two boxes lasted exactly two days. I have bought a few new clothing articles lately, though. The old ones must have shrunk.
Q: What's blue and eats brownies?
A: Cub Scouts.
Kramer wrote: How have your GS cookies lasted this long? Unless you bought dozens of boxes... My two boxes lasted exactly two days. I have bought a few new clothing articles lately, though. The old ones must have shrunk.
For sale today at my school...
Samoas and Tags both dunk over Thin Mints.
That being said, I was a GS co-leader for about 4 years (with my wife) and helped her for about 4 years before that. We disbanded our troops last spring for a variety of reasons.
Words cannot describe how happy I am right now not to have a Grand-Caravan-with-the-seats-out-sized load of Girl Scout cookies to peddle and/or deliver.
mtn wrote: That depends on how much the GS gets them for. I'm happy to pay the amount, its a good cookie, and if a significant portion of it goes to the GS, yay.
Out that $3.50 box of cookies, the supplier gets about half, GS National gets about a dollar, and the local troop doing the selling gets between 55-70 cents, depending on how many boxes they sell as a troop.
Yeah...gotta go with the Samoas.Since My Lovely Wife is a third grade teacher, we (she) gets roped into buying some every year. She caps it at 8 boxes, because she has to buy from neice's as well.
Odd thing, the cookies from the enchanted cookie factory in VA did not taste as good as the ones from the elves from Louisville.Share the recipe people...
Frozen Thin Mints. They're the thinking man's cookie.
You say you want your Tagalogs, Thin Mints and Samoas (a word I can't type without thinking of "my fat Samoan attorney," Oscar Acosta from Fear and Loathing) without lining the pockets of Big Pastry? Get all GRB (Grassroots Baking) and make your own:
http://www.chow.com/stories/12084
I still have a whole unopened box of thin mints from LAST year in the freezer. If anyone really wants them, they can have them. No shipping, though, you have to pick up at my doorstep.
Girl Scout cookies are more addicting than Meth and priced higher as well.
Scouts FTW ThinMints FTW Uncle Ted FTW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJT2eMP_7E
VanillaSky wrote: I still have a whole unopened box of thin mints from LAST year in the freezer. If anyone really wants them, they can have them. No shipping, though, you have to pick up at my doorstep.
The ThinMints are just bait, he's gonna knock you in the head and put you in the freezer
Nah, my mom just thinks I like the Thin Mints. I'm with Margie, gimme Somoas!
Then again, I'm not spending $4 on a box of 6 cookies when I'm supposed to be on a diet anyway.
Actually Samoa's still exist - the name depends on which commercial baker made the cookies, not political correctness. If ABC Bakers make the cookies they are called Carmel De-Lites, If Little Brownie Bakers make 'em they are called Samoa's. That's the same reason there is differences in Do-Si-Do's/Peanut butter Sandwiches, Tag-A-Longs/Peanut Butter Patties, and Shortbreads/Trefoils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_scout_cookies
Why anyone would ruin a cookie by putting mint in it is beyond me. We need that sick emoticon.
Get the GS's mom to cook me some chocolate chip cookies. Then they get to keep 100% and I would be willing to pay more to start with.
its all crack, one cookie is to much. 3 boxes is not enough...
friend of mine sells them by the case for her daughter at work... I have two cases of thinmints
Marjorie Suddard wrote: I know I should be thinking about more important things, like the health care reform bill, but instead I'm staring at the box of Thin Mints on my desk and thinking, "Why are these the top sellers when Samoas (or, as the new socialist government has decreed them, "Caramel deLights") are soooooo much better? Margie
I just realized how soon after lunch you posted this.
Somewhere in heaven your fried zucchini weeps.
jg
P.S. Not a damn thing wrong with thin mints, either. Stick that shizzle in the freezer. Mmmm hmm.
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