Guess Which Girl Scout Cookies They Killed?
Don't worry, it was only the gross ones. Were you even aware that there was a flavor called Thank U Berry Munch? It apparently tasted "like Cap'n Crunch Berries cereal instead of a cookie," per an 11-year-old Scout.
Also dead: Dulce de Leches, a failed attempt to "attract the Spanish-speaking market." ("Quien son esas chicas misteriosas? Con las pequenas boxes de cookies?") Not everyone is happy to say goodbye to the Dulce de Leches, however: "I can't believe they took those away," says one 12-year-old Scout. "We liked them so much I ordered a box and paid for it all by myself, and then my dad went behind my back and ate them."
And R.I.P. the Thanks-A-Lot, the Lemonades, and the Shout-Outs. For one way to spend the next … 45 seconds, here's an interactive game of matching the cookies' names to the cookies themselves. And they say newspapers are dying! (I finished in "just 13 tries.") And while we're on the topic of Girl Scouts and food they produce, did anyone else do the thing where they pass around a jar of cream, shaking it until it turned to butter? That was amazing. We should do that more.
Did you put a picture of a Samoa next to this story to give me a heart attack? GEEZ EDITH
EZ, Promise you'll never pull such a stunt again. PROMISE!
Seriously, I almost threw up. Also, I call them Samoans, but that is kind of racist, I guess.
Almost tossed cookies, eh?
Oh ha-ha Edith, funny. I saw that Samoa and audibly gasped. I guess this means I haven't eaten my last box in one sitting. Phew, close one.
Keebler is making a samoa copy called coconut dreaming or somesuch.
"food they produce"
Did they milk the Girl Scouts to get the cream first?
I'm cheap and low
thin mints!!! is that a Ben and Jerry's flavor yet or what.
Edy's ice cream has that flavor this time of year. Look for the girl scout-colored cartons.
Are they made with real girl scouts?
(Also what color is girl scout-colored?)
@Moonie: I think they prefer the term African-American Girl Scout.
Boys, boys, boys. I meant that the carton is done in the green and brown striped girl scout UNIFORM colors. *sigh*
@DD: High five. That is the best line from the Adams Family movie!
you guys: Brownies.
do those even still exist? because… kinda bad!
Well played.
Thanks-a-lot were the best. Those effing girl scouts.
This reminded me of how funny this John Mulaney editorial is about how you can only buy Girl Scout cookies one way: http://www.hulu.com/watch/144704/saturday-night-live-update-john-mulaney
Also – Lemon Chalet Cremes, still in? REALLY?
Lemon-flavored cookies are the best kind of cookies.
Thanks-A-Lot (formetly: the animal cookies) were the only ones I liked. No GS cookies for me this year. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Girl Scouts!
agree about the samoa pic. jesus, edith.
anybody know where an NYC dweller who rarely interacts with tween girls can get her hands on a box of thin mints?
http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/
I totally got distracted midway through the story by (the former girl scout) "Brandi" and her (current girl scout) daughter "Peach".
oh man. I wonder if I can convince my mom to buy some Samoas and freeze them until I'm back in the States.
Get her to mail them to you?
I was just a Brownie, never a Girl Scout so I missed out on the butter trick. sigh.
I think I gained 7 or 8 lbs this time last year by eating Edie's Samoa Ice Cream. (Which comes in both full-fat with chocolate ribbons and reduced-fat slow-churned with caramel ribbons.) Since it was a limited edition flavor, I'd buy two cartons at a time. And I did that like 5 times because it really wasn't AS limited as they made it out to be, and I always thought it was the last two cartons ever. Oh, and I served it with whipped cream and chocolate jimmies, because.
Ooh we made butter too. I think we had to wear little white mob caps that we made as well.
We did that in second grade! In sixth grade we melted sugar in a test tube and it made….dah dah dah…caramel!!
Umm who DIDN'T make butter in a baby-food jar?
What?
Thank-U-Berry Much were crap, in taste and name. Dulce de Leches were pretty crap too. As long as they don't bring back the fat-free brownie cookie — worst cookie ever!!! — I have no complaints.
How do the Guides carry all those cookies? Do they have special wheelbarrows, or pull-behind carts? In Canada, we have 2 1/2 kinds of Girl Guide cookies – the Spring Classic vanilla/chocolate sandwich cookies, and the Fall Thin Mint. That's all. No Samoas.
And we don't make butter in baby-food jars. We make ice-cream with a hand-cranked ice-cream maker.