Crumbling economy will make for thinner boxes of Thin Mints
 

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Tagalongs AKA Peanut Butter Patties only have 14 cookies per box. Best case scenario is that they reduce the amount by 2. At $4.00 per box w/12 cookies that would workout to about .33 a cookie. Freaking ridiculous.

What makes it nuts is that the individual troops don't get all that much per box.

My neice is selling magazines for Girl Scouts too.

I seem to remember the boxes having more than 14 cookies the last time I bought them. Did they get smaller before? or am I just remembering incorrectly?

I'm pretty sure of the count being 14; I googled for the Tagalong nutritional information and one serving (2 cookies) is 150 calories at 1/7th of the box. Obviously the other cookie flavors will have different counts. But I have always thought that there weren't enough tagalongs per box to begin with.

I posted in the Random thread that a friend of mine sold almost a hundred boxes just on Twitter alone. He did make mention beforehand about the smaller box and less cookies. I still ordered 6 boxes.

Can't wait till March 6th!

OTW I'm jealous. My coworker's daughter's troop doesn't start selling until March.

I thought the troops take pre-orders?

My friend Ryan (the guy who runs the LOST podcasts) decided on a whim to see if any Tweeters would be interested in buying cookies for his daughter's troop. He expected to only sell a few boxes here and there...but he sold almost 50 in one night on Twitter alone and is now up to almost 100. I think he was able to pre-sell a few hundred to his family, friends, and co-workers as well.

I only ordered 6 because 6 gets me a delivery right to my door, lol.

I guess not? I don't know. We have a countdown to cookie time at work. Until then, I've just resorted to baking obsessively.

Different Girl Scout Councils have different bakers and charge different amounts for their cookies. They even have different cookies sometimes. I don't have my sheet in front of me but I'm pretty sure our Tag-A-Longs are in a box of 16 and our cookies are $3.50 a box. 60 cents of that goes to the troop itself. A large portion goes to the Girl Scout Council.

I already ordered my girl scout cookies from our next door neighbor. I have no clue how many are ina box, but they were 4 bucks a piece...

i will just have to order more boxes.
<--- greedy

I will support the girls scouts this year. I think they are so cute and I love to support any cause that's pro-woman.

But @ $3.69 a pop during the rest of the year (when GS cookies are unavailable) I buy some of those Keebler "Grasshoppers". The same taste as Thin Mints, with tons of cookies per package. (I used to be so mad I couldn't get Thin Mints all year round until I realized that I could!) They also make what looks to be other popular GS style flavors as well.

You know that Thin Mints freeze excellently, right? I buy them by the case and throw them in the deep freeze. Plus, having them cold is the best in July.

(and personally I don't think Grasshoppers taste anything like a Thin Mint.)





And AGDee is correct, different Councils sell boxes for different prices, and have different percentages going to the baker/council/troop/individual girl. (And some even offer cookie scholarships to either camp or for college based on sales!)