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Girl Scout Cookies...
Girl scout cookie season shifts from state to state -- ours hasn't started yet I don't think...I have the same dueling mom problem.
Around here, Edy's sometimes puts out a limited edition ice cream in 3 girl scout cookie flavors, all of which are excellent. Thin mint is chocolate mint ice cream with thin mints broken in it, then they also do the samoas with coconut and chocolate and caramel ribbons, and Tagalongs, with a peanut butter ribbon...
I love thin mints best.
Since I'm eliminating sweets from my diet, I must decline Girl Scout cookies. Bummer!
Really? Girl scout cookie season varies? I had no idea. Hm. Maybe that means if I traveled I could get girl scout cookies all year round.
But like Gus, I'm trying to be healthier...but damn, those cookies are like kryptonite...
The study doc brought his daughter's girl scout cookie form to our Thursday meeting last week. I declined to order any.
I have a tendency to eat a box of girl scout cookies for dinner. There's no such thing as constraint with them.
What's funny is I was the one who suggested last year that he should bring the list to the meeting. :)
It seems like we share many of the same former bad habits, RA. Did you ever do the thing where you go to eat one Girl Scout Cookie and then suddenly go "WTF?!" when you realize that half a sleave is gone?
Thin Mints in the freezer = Awesome. You're crazy, RA.
Hell yes, Tadpole! Esp. the chocolate covered peanut butter ones...tagalongs...http://baking.about.com/od/familybaki...
The tagalongs are good, but they usually put me in the mood for thin mints or dos-is-does.I'm trying to figure out if that is coincidental or just cheesy webmaster humor that "OD" is contained in that link.
Sarah Pi wrote: "Girl scout cookie season shifts from state to state -- ours hasn't started yet I don't think...I have the same dueling mom problem.
Around here, Edy's sometimes puts out a limited edition ice crea..."
I was hooked on the samoa ice cream. I once ate almost an entire container on my own. It is the stuff of dreams.
Thin Mints are the best! I heard that this year the cookies the Girl Scouts sell will have fewer in the box than previous years. Shitty economy = fewer cookies. Guess that's part of the sacrifice Obama is asking all of us to make.
My niece is a Girl Scout, and I've already placed my order for three boxes of Thin Mints, which will go in the freezer when I get them.I don't care about any other cookie, Thin Mints are all I need!
If you don't want to inadvertently eat a whole roll of cookies in one sitting, do what I make myself do - get out the number of cookies you intend to eat, put them on a plate, and put the rest back in the freezer where you can't access them easily.
I don't understand the thin mint attraction. They taste like breath mints to me, not cookies.If you freeze them...they do become slightly more edible.
And I voted for Obama, so he DAMN WELL BETTER NOT FUCK WITH MY COOKIES.
I will say that they all (even the trefoils) make for decent pie crusts.
Randomanthony wrote: "I don't understand the thin mint attraction. They taste like breath mints to me, not cookies.If you freeze them...they do become slightly more edible.
That's because you don't like chocolate and mint together, RA. More for me!
Hm...you're right, I do seem to have a general mint/chocolate aversion...never thought of that before...well observed, librarian...
I love frozen Thin Mints.
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Oh yeah...cookie porn. Imagine if they made the cookies that big. Just imagine it.
I can't find any proof of what I said, but I'm fairly sure that it's true. It makes sense to make cookies all year long but rotate where they go to.I did find this: "According to Girl Scouts of the USA spokeswoman Michelle Tompkins, as quoted in a 2009 New York Post article, the number of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs in each box will be reduced in 2009 due to the increasing costs of flour, baking oils, cocoa, and transportation. In addition, Lemon Chalet Cremes will be smaller."
When I worked at girl scout camps, we always got all the cookies from those councils that hadn't sold. There were rarely any Thin Mints, and usually only a precious few boxes of Samoas and Tagalongs. The counselors snagged all of those, and left the shortbread and other boring ones for the kids.
Randomanthony wrote: "Oh yeah...cookie porn. Imagine if they made the cookies that big. Just imagine it."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
Randomanthony wrote: "Oh yeah...cookie porn. Imagine if they made the cookies that big. Just imagine it."As if Samoas (or whatever they're called now) weren't fattening enough. We now need them super-sized?
MMMMMM. Samoas.
But the Lemon Chalet cremes will be smaller. They're shrinking the cookies, not jumbo-sizing them, alas.
It seems like there are fewer in a box each year too.
I'm with RA on the thin mints issue. I taste mint every morning when I brush my teeth. I don't need it in cookie form.My top girlscout cookies? Trefoils and Do-si-dos. Too bad there are only two servings per box.
OMG, Sally!!! That gigantaur cookie is making me salivate!
There ARE fewer in the box. "According to Girl Scouts of the USA spokeswoman Michelle Tompkins, as quoted in a 2009 New York Post article, the number of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs in each box will be reduced in 2009 due to the increasing costs of flour, baking oils, cocoa, and transportation. In addition, Lemon Chalet Cremes will be smaller."
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I hear ya Sally, I went to have a Wisdom tooth pulled, and when I came back it was like all heck (for the Pasadena kid) had broke loose - but in a good way.
My girl scout cookies (Tagalogs and Thin Mints) just arrived! I will try not to eat them all today. But no promises.
I want girl scout cookies!! I haven't seen any girl scouts around lately...don't they usually set up shop in front of grocery stores sometimes?
I have been reading this thread and now I am gonna dream about tagalongs and samoas...mmmmmmmm.
Yeah, I saw two groups of girl scouts selling cookies at Safeway yesterday, one group at each door. I would have bought some, but I've got 6 boxes on order with my niece Tiffany. I want my cookies NOW!!!
Anyone who doesn't think Thin Mints are the best cookie around needs to have their head examined! :)
puts head forth for examinationBe gentle.
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Samoas are the best. Thin Mints are for amateurs.
Wait, aren't Samoas the ones coated with that nasty coconut stuff? Eww...
Samoas - EWW
Thin Mints - Eh
The chocolate covered peanut butter patties are for the professionals
Thin Mints - Eh
The chocolate covered peanut butter patties are for the professionals
I'm with you Jim. Peanut butter rules (as long as there's no salmonella)
Eh, I'd rather have chocolate chips and peanut butter straight out of the jar. No cookie necessary!
OK, let's just toss the cookies. Wait ... I didn't mean it that way.
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that's the one i like too sally. i like to hide a box (or 10) in my drawer at work and mete them out slowly
Sally wrote: "Yes, Jackie. Coated with delicious coconut and caramel. They are like heaven."So that's what heaven is like. I've always wondered.
I understand everybody gets their own version. Or something like that.
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Bacon for breakfast & Somoas for lunch! I think that leaves margharitas for dinner. Yes, a well rounded diet.For those of you wondering where your cookies are available, check out this link:
http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/
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Anyway, there are dueling moms at work selling girl scout cookies for their kids. I don't know about that. I don't want to have to pick allegiances so I bought from the girl across the street and told both work moms I already bought mine. I hate when people bug me to buy crap from their kids at work, even if they're selling girl scout cookies.
Thin mints are overrated, by the way. But the peanut butter ones...my god.
And have you ever checked the calorie counts on those cookies? I think the girl scouts might be responsible for the health care problems in America.
And...you?