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Raltar
 Post subject: Girl Scout cookies
PostPosted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:16 am 
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Is it just me, or do the boxes seem to get smaller every year?

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they seem to have gotten much more dangerous as well. Caramel Delites have always been my favorite. Now they are on my self imposed banned food list

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If I buy peanut butter patties....I generally eat the whole box before I make it home....LOVE them!

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I used to be a Boy Scout, but I got kicked out for eating all the Brownies.

Sorry... couldn't resist.

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 Post subject: Re: Girl Scout cookies
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I can't eat the damn things any more so I don't buy them. :(


Oh and /smacks Rynar!! :P

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Ok Rynar, I do understand that one :p

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Price goes up too. $4 a box here.

Thin Mints for life, just one box a year these days though.

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darksiege wrote:
they seem to have gotten much more dangerous as well. Caramel Delites have always been my favorite. Now they are on my self imposed banned food list


Me too. Which is why we didn't buy any this year. :(
I have noticed a dramatic improvement in my health since I quit eating sweets altogether.

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Thin Mints -- but I have for the most part sworn off sweets, so I haven't ordered them in a while.
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"Caramel Delites"? Ah, looked it up, those are called Samoas out here. I, too, try to limit myself to a couple a day of those. Would be pretty easy to eat a whole box. Those, and Do-Si-Dos (peanut butter sandwiches).

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Micheal wrote:
Price goes up too. $4 a box here.

Thin Mints for life, just one box a year these days though.

Keebler Grasshoppers are pretty much the same thing and aren't $4 a box. ;)
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Mmmm thin mints. :)

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Aethien,

I have eaten a couple a day when they are available for the better part of 20 years... sadly, that is a couple of boxes a day

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Timmit wrote:
Micheal wrote:
Price goes up too. $4 a box here.

Thin Mints for life, just one box a year these days though.

Keebler Grasshoppers are pretty much the same thing and aren't $4 a box. ;)


I know, and take a wide berth around the cookie section.

Yes, they are good, yes I've had them, yes they are even better than thin mints some years.

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darksiege wrote:
Aethien,

I have eaten a couple a day when they are available for the better part of 20 years... sadly, that is a couple of boxes a day

Hah, you must hate this time of year right now.

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 Post subject: Re: Girl Scout cookies
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*sigh* they were outside the grocery store today...I wanted to buy some but restrained myself...sweets don't mix well with diabetes and trying to lose weight...especially when I can and have eaten them by the box in my younger more foolish years. My personal favorites were the shortbread cookies, dunked into chocolate milk.

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Only $3.50 a box here on the east coast. My daughter ended up selling 150 boxes, which is pretty good since, as a Daisy Scout (which is pre-Browny Scout, which is pre-Girl Scout) she is not allowed (because of age) to do canvasing (other than the block she lives on) or in front of store sales.

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Thin Mints and Samoas ftw.
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Lenas wrote:
Thin Mints and Samoas ftw.

Buy Keebler Grasshoppers instead (unless you have a daughter who's a girlscout or something, I guess...).
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The addiction of Girl Scout Cookies, I've got 5 boxes on the shelf above my desk.
Then fun part was my wife sending to pick up the cookies that my Daughter had sold, was going to take her car but she stopped me, Take your truck trust me.
400 hundred boxes.

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There are no girl scout cookies here... I find your facination with them interesting and wish to try a box...
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Lydiaa wrote:
There are no girl scout cookies here... I find your facination with them interesting and wish to try a box...

Pick your poison:

Wikipedia page wrote:
Girl Scout cookie varieties include:[13][14]

* Thin Mints: Thin, mint-flavored chocolate wafers dipped in a chocolate coating.
* Peanut Butter Sandwiches/Do-si-dos: Peanut butter filling sandwiched between crunchy oatmeal cookies.
* Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs: Crispy vanilla cookies layered with peanut butter and covered with a chocolate coating.
* Shortbreads/Trefoils: A traditional shortbread cookie made in the shape of the Girl Scout trefoil logo.
* Caramel DeLites/Samoas: Vanilla cookies coated in caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut and laced with chocolate stripes.
* All Abouts/Animal Treasures/Thanks-A-Lot: : Shortbread cookies dipped in fudge and topped with an embossed thank-you message in one of five languages, including English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Swahili.
* Lemon Chalet Cremes: Cinnamon sandwich cookies with lemon creme filling.
* Cinna-spins Introduced in 2008 by ABC Bakers, Cinna-spins are cinnamon-flavored cookies that come in 100-calorie packs. Cinna-spins are shaped like miniature cinnamon rolls. Retired and replaced by Daisy Go Rounds.
* Daisy Go Rounds: Very similar to Cinna-spins, this cookie replaced them for the 2009 sale. They are advertised as low fat and also come in 100 calorie packs. They are cinnamon flavored and shaped like daisies. These cookies are only available from ABC Bakers.
* Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips Introduced in 2008, they are small sugar- free cookies.
* Dulce De Leche Introduced in 2009, these are Latin caramel cookies with caramel chips. The earlier versions had a caramel topping, which later had to be removed due to the high amount of trans fat.
* Lemonades Round shortbread cookie with lemon icing.
* Thank You Berry Munch Introduced in 2010, has Cranberries and white fudge chunks.

The best selling Girl Scout cookies are:

* Samoas (Caramel deLites) (25% of total sales)
* Thin Mints (19% of total sales)
* Tagalongs (Peanut Butter Patties) (13%)
* Do-si-dos (Peanut Butter Sandwiches) (11%)
* Trefoils (Shortbread) (9%)

The other varieties combined account for the remaining 23%.

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mmm... yummy poisons...

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* All Abouts/Animal Treasures/Thanks-A-Lot: : Shortbread cookies dipped in fudge and topped with an embossed thank-you message in one of five languages, including English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Swahili.

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* Shortbreads/Trefoils: A traditional shortbread cookie made in the shape of the Girl Scout trefoil logo.
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What I don't get is why there are regional names...

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For Girl Scout Cookies? To appeal to different regional audiences.

Overall, regional names exist because the world was once a much larger place. You are too young to remember a time when distance couldn't be worked around by picking up a telephone and television was only national during prime time.

Before national chains, there were only local stores, local restaurants. Mr. Who moves to a new region and brings the old recipes with him, but when he opens his restaurant, he finds he needs to alter things a little, or maybe he wants to brand his stuff with his own name, the What pie becomes the Who pie, and so on.

Stealing an idea from when you are traveling and making it back home, you might want to change the name to protect yourself from trademark infringement, or deny you ever saw the original.

Then again, occasionally different people come up with the same idea, the odds of them naming it exactly the same are low.

Living languages grow and accept new words and names all the time. There isn't a central repository for acceptable nicknames, slang, and so forth.

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