Foo - The nefarious Girl Scout cookie

They are here again, vile, evil, tools of the devil. Just sayin' :bang:

They are here again, vile, evil, tools of the devil. Just sayin' :bang:

yes. I mean, if I eat a chocolate chip cookie, the damn thing better have chocolate chips in it, but do girl scout cookies have girl scouts in them? NO... freakin' liars... :mad:

I personally don't care for them, which is unfortunate as I have two nieces who sell them ... and so Aunt Tude has to buy some ...

I like them. They keep shrinking tho.

I had some Tagalong ice cream a while back. It was incredibly good. Rivaled Moose Tracks.

When I sold them back in the dark ages, you got a big box for just 50 cents. I still love the Thin Mints.

How much of the cash goes to the girl scouts and how much goes to the bakery?
I cannot stand the cookies, I mean, really, they are crap. But I don't mind supporting local youth groups. I just do it with straight cash donations. Keep your wrapping paper, slim jims, cookies, magazine subscriptions, etc.

How much of the cash goes to the girl scouts and how much goes to the bakery?


I saw it recently and it's a pretty small piece of the cookie, so to speak. They sell for $3.50 per box and I think the scouts get around 15% of that.

I saw it recently and it's a pretty small piece of the cookie, so to speak. They sell for $3.50 per box and I think the scouts get around 15% of that.

That sucks

[edit] I bet the Girl Scouts Corp gets some of that 15% as well. I wonder how much actually makes it to the local troop, 10¢ each box sold?

I still wonder if they are made with real girl scouts.

skip the cookies....just eat the girl scouts.

um...wait, that doesn't sound right.

skip the cookies....just eat the girl scouts.

um...wait, that doesn't sound right.

You sick sick man. I like it.

A Girl Scout grabbed my hand and wouldn't let go. I interpreted as a threat when she pushed a box of cookies at me.

I rode the 5 Boro Bike Tour this past year and saw a lady with a basket on the front of her bike filled with boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Not to sell, mind you, but to eat along the way. I was mildly entertained.

Wow, I have never even seen the word "nefarious" until yesterday. And suddenly I run across it two days in a row. I better look up its definition, I guess...

They are here again, vile, evil, tools of the devil. Just sayin' :bang:

Hey, thanks for letting us know it's that season. :notamused:

A troop leader told me yesterday that the local troop gets 75 cents per box, then each level up the organizational ladder, all the way to National, gets part of the rest.

Mmmmmmmm, Samoas
http://rad.smugmug.com/photos/472972896_kscmr-M.jpg

A Girl Scout grabbed my hand and wouldn't let go. I interpreted as a threat when she pushed a box of cookies at me.

I see what you did there.

I saw on a documentary on one of the cable channels that the "retail" price of the cookies is actually determined by the local group, so it is interesting that $3.50 seems to be the going rate almost everywhere...

I see what you did there.

So did she. I used a move I learned from watching Steven Seagal in "Hard to Kill".

Lesson learned, kid. Lesson learned.

http://www.girlscoutssela.org/Assets/tagalongs.jpg

For the life of me, I always read these as "Tagalogs".

A troop leader told me yesterday that the local troop gets 75 cents per box, then each level up the organizational ladder, all the way to National, gets part of the rest.




If one believes Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scout_cookie)

"Each Girl Scout council operates their own cookie sale. They set the price per box based on the local economy. The profits are divided by their own formula. Local troops get around 10 percent to 15 percent of the price paid, the council takes more than 50 percent, and the manufacturer gets the remainder. For a $4 box the local troop will earn between 40 and 60 cents per box."

It's not those cookies that get me. It's that gal-derned cookie dough my daughter sells for school. Big tubs of it. And then the wife starts with the scooping. And the baking. And I start feeling a bit randy, baby. Especially if the peanut butter ones are in the oven.

I always thought of them more as insidious, but I get your meaning.

NRBQ had a great tribute song to them back in the mid-late 80s. It sounds a little more tired here (http://music.aol.com/song/girl-scout-cookies/2239057).

http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/Girl%20Scout%20Cookies.jpg

They are here again, vile, evil, tools of the devil. Just sayin' :bang:

When I lived downtown, I used to frequent a bar, called The Art Bar, that served a drink called "The Thin Mint". Tasted exactly like the cookie. I used to go sit at the bar and read a book and talk to the bartender, who also made the best dirty martini in Dallas, as voted by the readers of the Dallas Observer.

Thin Mints FTW. But I tend to eat an entire sleeve in one go, so I try not to get them.

I need a sign for my yard: "Cyclists's residence. No cookies!"


It's not those cookies that get me. It's that gal-derned cookie dough my daughter sells for school.
+6.02x10^23 :rolleyes:

When I lived downtown, I used to frequent a bar, called The Art Bar, that served a drink called "The Thin Mint". Tasted exactly like the cookie. I used to go sit at the bar and read a book and talk to the bartender, who also made the best dirty martini in Dallas, as voted by the readers of the Dallas Observer.

You strike me as the type to drink a drink like that. Just sayin'.

I tried swearing off Thin Mints, but its evil twin, the Do-Si-Do snuck in while I wasn't looking. The kitchen is infested! :o

You strike me as the type to drink a drink like that. Just sayin'.

At the time, I would drink just about anything, how does that strike you?:innocent:

Think I'm gonna get a shirt printed up:
"I'm on a diet...try to sell me some cookies and I'll kill you!"

I like the TV commercial where all the girls are saying "my cookies will change the world."

It makes me laugh quite inappropriately...

I could eat an entire box of Samoas right now. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/lamplightsg/Smileys/shame.gif

I don't know what nefarious means but if it means I like girl scout cookies, I agree. :) Do-si doos rulez by the way.
Ernest

I have a box of thin mint clones (they're square, not round) and they taste just like the girl scout version. Got it from the dollar store, yay! I will not support the evil enterprise hiding behind the pig tails and winsome smiles!!!! :p

they always tasted like crap to me. it's like they're made of some sort of half flavors or something.

Jeez, I thought Girl Guides only sold the mint chocolate thin cookies. I had no clue they sold Tagalongs, or Samoas, or Do-si-dos. I had to look up "Girl Guide Cookies" on wikipedia to figure out what those are.

I didn't join the Girl Guides as a kid. My mom wasn't into organized activities so I wonder what I missed out on as a kid?

they sound like some kind of crime syndicate running extortion rackets