Girl Scout Cookies

honeychile · #1 02-27-2005, 02:02 AM

Has anyone bought or tried any of this year's Girl Scout cookies yet?

We got the usual Thin Mints and Shortbread. The Shortbread cookies are nasty!!!!!! They taste eggy, or icky, or just plain wrong. The worst remark heard was, "Well, olive oil is made from olives, these must be made from Girl Scouts." blech.

Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

IowaStatePhiPsi · #2 02-27-2005, 02:10 AM

ordered in late Jan/early Feb
cookies deliver here during Spring Break so the Monday after break (21st) I'll be getting mine.

norcalchick · #3 02-27-2005, 03:26 AM

i got the somoas and peanut butter ones. i haven't tried em yet.

PhiPsiRuss · #4 02-27-2005, 07:03 AM

Where do I get them?

I think that there are strippers who dress like girl scouts, but that's about it around here.

carnation · #5 02-27-2005, 10:54 AM

Oo, nasty. Now I'm afraid to try the shortbreads.

They're probably okay, though, because various bakeries around the country bake the cookies.

Honey, maybe you should notify the council! I know ours would want to know if our bakery had blown it. Maybe they'll give you some free cookies in return!

mmcat · #6 02-27-2005, 11:44 AM

double chocolate chip aren't bad...
also thin mints

honeychile · #7 02-27-2005, 12:50 PM

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Originally posted by carnation
Oo, nasty. Now I'm afraid to try the shortbreads. They're probably okay, though, because various bakeries around the country bake the cookies.

Honey, maybe you should notify the council! I know ours would want to know if our bakery had blown it. Maybe they'll give you some free cookies in return!

Now, there's an idea!

There's a large grocery store near us that allows Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and the like to sell things inside, out of the elements. I got the cookies from them, not knowing that my mother had ordered some already. I didn't know that different bakeries made them!

ZTAngel · #8 02-27-2005, 01:03 PM

My parents bought me some boxes when I went home last month. They were out in front of the grocery stores in South Florida at the end of January. They've been out in front of the grocery stores in Central Florida for the past few weeks. I bought a few more boxes when I went shopping yesterday.

I've only had the Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Samoas this year. I do like the Shortbreads but I guess I won't be getting any after hearing how gross they are!

Tom Earp · #9 02-27-2005, 02:12 PM

Probably diet / sugarless free this go around. I dont eat brownies either!

Cant really screw up thin mints! Ah can they?

IowaStatePhiPsi · #10 02-27-2005, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile
I didn't know that different bakeries made them!

apparently the lemon cookies made in a Minneapolis-area contracted baker are a sandwich-style cookie, but that's not the case almost anywhere else?

IowaStatePhiPsi · #11 02-27-2005, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by Tom Earp I dont eat brownies either!

Only those at the Neverland Ranch can eat a Brownie Scout.

IowaStatePhiPsi · #12 02-27-2005, 03:32 PM

Just curious-

Most of you are talking about buying them from the girl scouts- you dont have the orderforms ahead of time and the cookies come a month later? That's what we do in Iowa. I know when I was in Lansing, MI for a conference 2 years ago there were girlscouts standing outside a bookstore selling cookies- I just thought their mother had bought a case and was making them sell them.

Lady Pi Phi · #13 02-27-2005, 05:39 PM

I never liked Girl Guide (Canada...probably called Girl Scouts as well now) cookies. The chocolate cookies with the chocolate cream filling were about the only ones that were tolerable for me. My dad liked those ones too, so he was the only one I ever sold to.

SigPhiSunshine · #14 02-27-2005, 05:39 PM

They do it both ways around here

honeychile · #15 02-27-2005, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Just curious-

Most of you are talking about buying them from the girl scouts- you dont have the orderforms ahead of time and the cookies come a month later? That's what we do in Iowa. I know when I was in Lansing, MI for a conference 2 years ago there were girlscouts standing outside a bookstore selling cookies- I just thought their mother had bought a case and was making them sell them.

That's what we normally do - in fact, my mother has a couple boxes on order. But the big thing around here is getting 3-4 Girl Scouts (and their mothers) together at a grocery store, and selling them. They had at least forty empty "crates" (the bigger boxes that the boxes of cookies come in) at the store I was at yesterday - and that was at around 10 am. The store even provided bags for them!