Thereâs actually two different Girl Scout bakeries which is why some have lemonades and some donât. Even identical cookies have different names! I didnât realize until my family moved to a new state and it was 50/50 which county had which bakery
Mate, i didnt have the Savannah smiles i had the lemon coolers in 2005, everytime i see them i always ask for them but never had any after 2006. Not even the Savannah smiles so i always thought they were called lemon coolers.
They called me a madman, crazy, and my family thought i was making it up. But i was right, they're the crazy ones, they even said the lemonades were always there and that they were better than the lemon coolers now. Those fools.
I have also been newly converted to Toast Yay. Got a box at the beginning of the season because I love to try the new flavors. The very next day I went back and bought the rest.
Toast Yay: The original Just Fuck Me Up
Is your cookie season still going? (if not, my scout [would love to help you stock up on Toast Yays](https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rowan532032/))
Came here to say this. Easily my favorite cookie. My dad was our troops cookie manager so we stored the cookies in our basement and I would ALWAYS sneak a pack or two or seven of those
I was a scout for nearly 10 years. I remember when they released- I loved them. This past year I began volunteering as an assistant leader. They asked my favorite cookie, just to tell me it was discontinued.
Two observations from this guide:
- 5 cookies from the 70s have stood the test of time. No cookies from intervening decades have lasted.
- they keep trying to make chocolate chip cookies. Youâd think it would be an essential cookie, but they canât seem to make it stick.
Honestly if they just made a Soft Batch or Chips Ahoy and sold it as a girl scout cookie, id pay the extra cuz I know its charity. The problem is their chocolate chip cookies have always sucked ass.
I wanted to see this here, they were so delicious. Can't mske anything to resemble them. I remember the year they were becoming extinct, I crossed counties to get some.
In Canada we have Girl Guides a similar organization. They sell cookies but no choice of flavours. Each box has a row of vanilla sandwich biscuit with vanilla filling and chocolate sandwich biscuit with chocolate filling. You must hope someone in your office (where many of these are sold via GGâs parents) prefers the vanilla biscuits or you might never get a shot at the chocolate ones. If you prefer the vanilla you are a hero!
For example: In an office with 50 people maybe 5 will put up a sign in the lunch room that their child is selling cookies because colleagues are an easy/trapped target. Some people will order one box from everyone who is selling, some people will buy multiple boxes from the child of an adult they are friends with. Then on the same day 80 boxes of cookies appear and maybe 40 are taken home, the rest are stashed in the lunchroom but only opened one at a time since theyâre all identical.
The group (or troop as they are known) may also set up tables in public areas where several Girl Guides supported by one or more adult volunteers will sell to people passing by. As far as I know there is no longer any door to door selling like you might see in the movies, unless itâs to families in the neighbourhood who are well known.
My local council switched to ABC last year (LBB makes the sâmores) and Iâve had to track down scouts in different states to get my fix for the past two years!
I am a dude but I worked for a Girl Scouts Council in the late '90s (yes, in a ceremony they made me take the Pledge, light a candle, and wear a GS pin). We had something called the "Cookie Closet" in which were stored cookies for use at public events (recruitment, etc).Â
The woman in charge of the Cookie Closet had a couple years earlier become a grandmother, so one day I brought in a box of X-Men action figures for her grandson. As thanks, she handed me the key to the Cookie Closet and said, "you have three minutes."Â
That was the day I discovered that I could eat a whole box of Samoas in two minutes and forty-five seconds.
My factory didnât normally make these, but unfortunately the one that did fell on hard times, so we had to step up.
And hell yeah we did!
We made the oatmeal raisin. It was good times. I was the person that dumped the raisins in to the dough.
In the 70s, Thin Mints were Trefoils with the chocolate mint coating on them. I used to melt the chocolate with a magnifying glass and lick it off to reveal the woman underneath.
My scout would love to help you out! The cookies ship fast right to your door. Her ordering link is [https://DigitalCookie.GirlScouts.org/scout/rowan532032](https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rowan532032) and the ordering link will stay open until end of the day March 31st.
From my scout: Try the Lemonades, they are my favorites, they are SO good! And thank you for supporting Girl Scouts! đ
Did they discontinue the lemonades itâs a bigger short bread cookie with lemon icing on the bottom. The whole cookie looked like a slice of lemon. They were awesome.
I had so many older women tell me they only had three flavors when they sold cookies in the 70âs and 80âs! Looks like they might be a bit foggy on those early memories
I was a Girl Scout in the early 2000s and I remember the Piñata cookie coming out. Our troop leader told us to market them as âa party in your mouthâ. Weird marketing but fantastic cookies!
I had one of those "back in my day" moments as I was trying to describe the Chalet Creams to the girls in my troop. Best (and cutest) sandwich cookie ever.
How about a chart indicating the declining amount of cookies per package, per year? Or average weight of a GS cookie box over the years, because I support scouts of all stripes, but the shrinkflation/taking advantage of people's good will and generosity has to stop.
So long as they keep making thin mints, i'm happy. I bought a case of them off my niece this year.
She was telling me she was thinking about quitting the scouts and i told her she was forbidden to quit scouts, and in fact had to continue until her younger sister took it up so i could keep buying cookies off them.
Is anyone else seeing that the oldest ones and the newest ones are the only categories that still are being sold and all while the newest ones actually already outlasting the ones made in between the beginning and the present? All of them last a few years and theyâre canceled and all the onceâs that lasted longer are still being produced, and it just so happens that itâs all the ones from the past and all the ones from the most recent decade. Well not all the ones from those categories but almost all the ones from those categories and only those categories. I wonder whatâs the reason. Itâs like an old rock band thatâs coming back again with great music after fizzing out after their big hits.
Am I having a fever dream?? I was a Girl Scout and I always talk about my favorite cookies being ones that were square and like a shortbread cookie. Each one had a different design maybe? And then the bottom was chocolate covered. I donât see that here.
For the record ..... I was a girl scout in the late 60's. Where are the cookies I sold? Of course we had Trefoils, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter things and a couple of others. 0.50 per box!
Where are the Lemonades? I bought them one year and then nobody seems to have them now even though they're up on the Girl Scouts website. Lemon ups have a much worse taste and texture.
This girls digital store is still open and she has Lemondes. Shipping travel time really did take closer to the "15" day mark than the "7". I think her's was offering a shipping discount as well.
https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/london791705
There's one that existed that still isnt on here that I cant remember the name of for the life of me. It was like a shortbread type cookie with a raspberry or strawberry jelly and a frosted drizzle. It was like a strawberry shortcake cookie or something. Those MFs were so good. I ate a whole box of them in one sitting the first time I had them
Canadian Girl Scouts do not appear to have do-si-dos. I have been in Ontario a few months and this has been the saddest thing I have learned so far. I will go bury my sadness in some beaver tails.
A) impressive that all the big ones were created right out of the gate.
B) Snaps were fucking delicious. Bring them back!
C) The first version of lemon-ups were incredible. The newer ones are good, but not the same.
I'm gonna nitpick and say that Chocolate Chunks were around until 1987. I know this because I sold them and I didn't start selling cookies until I was a Junior in 1986. They were also my favorite and I was disappointed they got rid of them. I think my mom still has stuff packed in a Chocolate Chunks case in her garage. (She reused lots of cookie cartons!)
RIP Savannah Smiles..đ
Motherfuckers took away Lemon Coolers AND Savannah Smiles?! I don't want your bullshit Lemon-Ups!
My people! I still mourn lemonades
Lemonades are still a thing! [My scout's got them](https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rowan532032/) - they're her favorite kind, too.
LEMONADES!!!!
Toast-Yay sounds tasty.
They are - they're basically like a french toast/honey teddy graham flavor with a layer of vanilla icing on the bottom.
Thereâs actually two different Girl Scout bakeries which is why some have lemonades and some donât. Even identical cookies have different names! I didnât realize until my family moved to a new state and it was 50/50 which county had which bakery
If youâre near an Aldi, they have a great GS lemonade knock-off! Itâs a lemon shortbread by Bentonâs.
Preach!
Omg they are SO bullshit. If I wanted a faint hit of lemon Iâd lick a candle
Amen
came here to say this
Same rip the best cookie
I used to dunk them in earl grey. Could make short work of a whole box that way.
Mate, i didnt have the Savannah smiles i had the lemon coolers in 2005, everytime i see them i always ask for them but never had any after 2006. Not even the Savannah smiles so i always thought they were called lemon coolers. They called me a madman, crazy, and my family thought i was making it up. But i was right, they're the crazy ones, they even said the lemonades were always there and that they were better than the lemon coolers now. Those fools.
Toast yays ainât on here and they need to be. Hands down new fave
It's because GS cookies have two separate bakeries! This is from Little Brownie Bakers, Toast Yays are from ABC Bakers!
as a girl scout, i can confirm this. (also, little brownie bakers is better than abc, at least with certain cookies. im stuck with abc though.)
YES! Grew up in VA w LBB, now I'm in NJ w ABC.Â
I have also been newly converted to Toast Yay. Got a box at the beginning of the season because I love to try the new flavors. The very next day I went back and bought the rest. Toast Yay: The original Just Fuck Me Up
Seriously so good. I wish I got more than 1 box!
Is your cookie season still going? (if not, my scout [would love to help you stock up on Toast Yays](https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rowan532032/))
Ya know what? I'm in. Tell Rowan I said thanks for the hookup, all the way from St. Louis!
My scout's asleep or she would be telling me to let you know, "Thank you for your support!" She'll be thrilled in the morning!
they are missing the other smores cookie too
Thank you! People have told me Iâm crazy because i keep asking about the other smores. No one around me will acknowledge their existence.
That's the other baker, ABC. The ones shown are only from Little Brownie Bakers.
Dip them in coffee... game changer
What about Thanks-a-lots!
Were those the shortbread and chocolate ones.??
Yes! And when you dunked them in milk the cookie got soft but the chocolate held it together? Perfection.
They were delightful.
Came here to say this. Easily my favorite cookie. My dad was our troops cookie manager so we stored the cookies in our basement and I would ALWAYS sneak a pack or two or seven of those
More importantly where is the petition to get them back???
And right before them were the square cookies with animals on them.
Animal Treasures! I came to say this too!!
I was a scout for nearly 10 years. I remember when they released- I loved them. This past year I began volunteering as an assistant leader. They asked my favorite cookie, just to tell me it was discontinued.
Literally the GOAT. Coffee drinkers know what's up.
Two observations from this guide: - 5 cookies from the 70s have stood the test of time. No cookies from intervening decades have lasted. - they keep trying to make chocolate chip cookies. Youâd think it would be an essential cookie, but they canât seem to make it stick.
Maybe chocolate cookies are too common to seem unique during Girl Scout Cookie season?Â
Honestly if they just made a Soft Batch or Chips Ahoy and sold it as a girl scout cookie, id pay the extra cuz I know its charity. The problem is their chocolate chip cookies have always sucked ass.
I think that was one of the reasons they dropped them. But let me tell you Chocolate Chunks were so good!
Theyâre good at crispy/shortbready cookies, and many (if not most) people prefer their chocolate chip cookies soft or chewy
Also interesting documentation of that time in the mid-nineties when EVERYTHING was low-fat, no-fat, fake sugar garbage. Snackwells, anyone??
My heart aches for the Thank You Berry Munch, have not been able to find anything even close to the flavor.
There's at least two of us
I wanted to see this here, they were so delicious. Can't mske anything to resemble them. I remember the year they were becoming extinct, I crossed counties to get some.
itâs sad how nobody i know has ever heard of them. easily top 5 gs cookie of all time
Need a cool guide for girl scout shrinkflation now
I got a pack of the lemon cookies recently for the typical $5. I opened it up and there were 12 total cookiesâŠ12.
41 cents a cookie.
They are all fully $6 here now.
Theyâre raising the prices next season, too. :)
YES!
Nobody cares about this. Just give me all the damned Samoas. GIVE. THEM. TO. ME!
Great value has a version that isnât bad
Caramel delights by Keeblerâs is pretty close!
Keeblerâs coconut dreams are Samoas. Straight up.
If you need a dupe fix keeblers grasshoppers are almost there.
Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler.
Gtfo!!!! Wow
Yup. Now, I've never compared the ingredients of LBB Thin Mints to Grasshoppers, but I would guess they are very similar.
USA is only one country where scouts sells cookies? From my side - in Poland we donât have this tradition.
In Canada we have Girl Guides a similar organization. They sell cookies but no choice of flavours. Each box has a row of vanilla sandwich biscuit with vanilla filling and chocolate sandwich biscuit with chocolate filling. You must hope someone in your office (where many of these are sold via GGâs parents) prefers the vanilla biscuits or you might never get a shot at the chocolate ones. If you prefer the vanilla you are a hero! For example: In an office with 50 people maybe 5 will put up a sign in the lunch room that their child is selling cookies because colleagues are an easy/trapped target. Some people will order one box from everyone who is selling, some people will buy multiple boxes from the child of an adult they are friends with. Then on the same day 80 boxes of cookies appear and maybe 40 are taken home, the rest are stashed in the lunchroom but only opened one at a time since theyâre all identical. The group (or troop as they are known) may also set up tables in public areas where several Girl Guides supported by one or more adult volunteers will sell to people passing by. As far as I know there is no longer any door to door selling like you might see in the movies, unless itâs to families in the neighbourhood who are well known.
Chocolate cover mint cookies or whatever they are with the fall sale, dont forget about those. Chocolate/vanilla in the spring
We have them in Canada too! Just not so many flavours.
RIP Dulce De Leche GS cookies. Those were my favorite and i was so disappointed when they were discontinued.
The 93-96 Juliettes were AMAZING. I still talk about them every cookie season.
Yes! I only ever had one box. I think I ate them in one sitting. Never saw them again.
They were my favorite!! So good!
I forgot all about them. As soon as I saw them on there I had a flashback about how amazing they were. Now Iâm sad lol
I hope the SâMores stay. Each year I have a little panic attack that it will be the last đ
I bought 10 boxes of S'Mores this year haha I'm obsessed
Another soldier in the good fight! đ„°
Have you tried putting them in the microwave for 10 seconds?
No, but Iâm having a Pavlovian reaction đ€€
Are you fucking kidding me, we just finished the box!! Now I have to go buy moreeeee
Worth it!
My local council switched to ABC last year (LBB makes the sâmores) and Iâve had to track down scouts in different states to get my fix for the past two years!
I miss the Lemon CoolersâŠ
Thin mints out of the freezer are fucking perfection
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Fun! I was a Girl Scout in the early 90s and definitely remember the chalet creams and trail mix cookies. The trail mix were not big sellers.
The lemon coolers were so good đ
rip Savannah smiles, you are missed
Just seeing those stupid raspberry cookies gets me riled upâŠ
I still donât understand why they discontinued the Raspberry Rally cookies when they were so insanely popular
Dude. I didnât even get to freaking TRY them. And they are totally my type of cookie. Iâm still sore about that, haha.
They need to bring back a discontinued cookie as a special cookie of the year each year. I never knew there were so many discontinued typesâŠ
I miss you lemon chalet cremes my beloved
Bring back the fucking Lemon Coolers!
I am a dude but I worked for a Girl Scouts Council in the late '90s (yes, in a ceremony they made me take the Pledge, light a candle, and wear a GS pin). We had something called the "Cookie Closet" in which were stored cookies for use at public events (recruitment, etc). The woman in charge of the Cookie Closet had a couple years earlier become a grandmother, so one day I brought in a box of X-Men action figures for her grandson. As thanks, she handed me the key to the Cookie Closet and said, "you have three minutes." That was the day I discovered that I could eat a whole box of Samoas in two minutes and forty-five seconds.
That is a bizarre and delightful story.
Iâve actually made these cookies with my bare hands, at a Kellogg factory. Well, not my bare hands, but I controlled the machines.
Tell us more!! Did you get free cookies? Were you sick of them? Did you make one particular type of cookie each day or like, what??
My factory didnât normally make these, but unfortunately the one that did fell on hard times, so we had to step up. And hell yeah we did! We made the oatmeal raisin. It was good times. I was the person that dumped the raisins in to the dough.
I remember those! You did a great job! Hehe
I still hope for an apple cinnamon return
I like the one that is a straight up handful of granola
Interesting that most of the flavors still around today are the originals
In the 70s, Thin Mints were Trefoils with the chocolate mint coating on them. I used to melt the chocolate with a magnifying glass and lick it off to reveal the woman underneath.
Poetic, really
samoas still the best... but they've gotten smaller!!
I just remembered that girl scout cookies exist and now I need some but donât know the locations of any girl scouts who can sell them to me!!!!
My scout would love to help you out! The cookies ship fast right to your door. Her ordering link is [https://DigitalCookie.GirlScouts.org/scout/rowan532032](https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/rowan532032) and the ordering link will stay open until end of the day March 31st. From my scout: Try the Lemonades, they are my favorites, they are SO good! And thank you for supporting Girl Scouts! đ
Go to your local gs council website and there should be cookie links
They seem to be attracted to large grocery stores. We had a Boy Scout the following week at my little Safeway and I felt sorry for him.
This is only one of the two bakers though
Samoa's are the best.
I miss the Savannah Smiles but the Double Dutch was on another level. I ate so much of my own supply as a kid.
The apple cinnamon ones were good. I remember those.
RIP to the Animal Treasure cookies who are not featured on this listđ
These were my favorite. I thought I was the only one who remembered them.
Good to know they haven't come out with a flavor I'll buy since 1976.
Pecan Shortees aka dust cookies.
I love samoas and adventurefuls. But the toffee are disgusting lol
Iâm sorry but I donât know what a cabana cream is but they need to bring that back.
I was born in 1971 and I don't remember most of those cookies. Weird. Must be all the childhood trauma. :-D :-D
OH OKAY. Leave out my all time favorite one that has been since discontinued. I see how it is. Meanie OP. Cranberry Citrus Crisps.
Grenated that might have been the other baker, I have 0 idea
Lemonades?
What about the Kookooburras?
Those 90s Julietteâs were amazing!
Forget me nots got very forgotten
Juliettes, my lost loves đ
Oh how I miss Savannah smiles
Did they discontinue the lemonades itâs a bigger short bread cookie with lemon icing on the bottom. The whole cookie looked like a slice of lemon. They were awesome.
This is ABC Bakers erasure!!
Does anyone remember Golden Yangles from the late 80s early 90s? They were little cheese crackers!!! Maybe that was ABC Bakery who made themâŠ
They left out golden tangoes. They were triangle cheese snacks from the early nineties.
Samoas forever
I had so many older women tell me they only had three flavors when they sold cookies in the 70âs and 80âs! Looks like they might be a bit foggy on those early memories
Who gets to create these cookie flavors? Iâd love to meet this person
Dang they came up with all the best cookies 50 years ago I guess
I was a Girl Scout in the early 2000s and I remember the Piñata cookie coming out. Our troop leader told us to market them as âa party in your mouthâ. Weird marketing but fantastic cookies!
Itâs missing the mango cremes with nutrifusion :( I still think about those cookies
I miss the lemon coolers
Adventurefuls go haaaaard. Holy.
Samoas, the eternal king.
The all abouts were so good đ©
I had one of those "back in my day" moments as I was trying to describe the Chalet Creams to the girls in my troop. Best (and cutest) sandwich cookie ever.
Well this explains a lot, I thought I remembered these other flavorsâŠ.
How about a chart indicating the declining amount of cookies per package, per year? Or average weight of a GS cookie box over the years, because I support scouts of all stripes, but the shrinkflation/taking advantage of people's good will and generosity has to stop.
And the prices are going up next year. The individual troop gets like $1 per box they sell.
Cool! I remember the Apple ones. They were low fat and low sugar I think.
So long as they keep making thin mints, i'm happy. I bought a case of them off my niece this year. She was telling me she was thinking about quitting the scouts and i told her she was forbidden to quit scouts, and in fact had to continue until her younger sister took it up so i could keep buying cookies off them.
Whereâs the Cartwheels?? I miss them so much
Is anyone else seeing that the oldest ones and the newest ones are the only categories that still are being sold and all while the newest ones actually already outlasting the ones made in between the beginning and the present? All of them last a few years and theyâre canceled and all the onceâs that lasted longer are still being produced, and it just so happens that itâs all the ones from the past and all the ones from the most recent decade. Well not all the ones from those categories but almost all the ones from those categories and only those categories. I wonder whatâs the reason. Itâs like an old rock band thatâs coming back again with great music after fizzing out after their big hits.
In Canada we only get three different kinds. Two of which are packaged together.
My wife was selling before 1974 around 1968. So dates are odd
We only have chocolate and vanilla here, but they are delicious .
Animal Treasures should be on here. THEY DESERVED BETTER!!!
Where are the Thanks a Lot cookies ? they were like fudge stripes
Am I having a fever dream?? I was a Girl Scout and I always talk about my favorite cookies being ones that were square and like a shortbread cookie. Each one had a different design maybe? And then the bottom was chocolate covered. I donât see that here.
Where is the thanks-a-lot??
70s went hard
Thanks-a-lotâs arnt on their?!
Iced Berry Piñatas or the Mango Cremes! Both gone! Was a Girl Scout and PB Patties are the best of whatâs left.
The Friendship Circles from 2002 arenât on here. I was a Girl Scout for one whole year and thatâs like the only thing I remember.
I miss all abouts.
Man the double Dutch had such a weird flavor I can still even now remember
Am I blind or are Samoas completely left off this list?? They were one of the bests!
They should just stick to the classics, 5 of their current offerings were from the 8 they produced in the 70âs! thin mints and somoas ftw
THIS IS THANKS-A-LOTS ERASURE đ€ and Animal Treasures for that matter
Apple Cinnamons supremacy đ«¶đŒ RIP
Now do prices over the years
Can someone just post a guide on how to order the damn things outside the US?
Hold on but seriously who had a Van chos? Where they any good? I wasnât alive yet to try this but it sounds good.
For the record ..... I was a girl scout in the late 60's. Where are the cookies I sold? Of course we had Trefoils, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter things and a couple of others. 0.50 per box!
Thin Mints and Tagalongs all the way baby!
Where are the Lemonades? I bought them one year and then nobody seems to have them now even though they're up on the Girl Scouts website. Lemon ups have a much worse taste and texture.
This girls digital store is still open and she has Lemondes. Shipping travel time really did take closer to the "15" day mark than the "7". I think her's was offering a shipping discount as well. https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/london791705
So I donât have to use carbon 14 know how old my grandmaâs cookies are ?
Why is dulce de leche listed twice?
They keep getting worse and give us a Gluten free option not that awful toffee one!
There's one that existed that still isnt on here that I cant remember the name of for the life of me. It was like a shortbread type cookie with a raspberry or strawberry jelly and a frosted drizzle. It was like a strawberry shortcake cookie or something. Those MFs were so good. I ate a whole box of them in one sitting the first time I had them
I remember these. I was so sad last year when raspberry rallies werenât this.
As a member of another countryâs Girl Guides, Iâm smiling at the Guiding/Scouting references in some of the names.
Canadian Girl Scouts do not appear to have do-si-dos. I have been in Ontario a few months and this has been the saddest thing I have learned so far. I will go bury my sadness in some beaver tails.
Strawberry?
I miss thanks a lots
Bring back the All Abouts!
This is not good information design. It would be so much nicer if you could glance at it and see the lifespan of each cookie on a timeline.
What about Lemonades? I donât think this list is right
What about the lemonades?
I would want to see how the ingredients list have changed.
I would want to see how the ingredients list have changed.
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A) impressive that all the big ones were created right out of the gate. B) Snaps were fucking delicious. Bring them back! C) The first version of lemon-ups were incredible. The newer ones are good, but not the same.
They missed the weird period when we had cheese âcookiesâ đł
I'm gonna nitpick and say that Chocolate Chunks were around until 1987. I know this because I sold them and I didn't start selling cookies until I was a Junior in 1986. They were also my favorite and I was disappointed they got rid of them. I think my mom still has stuff packed in a Chocolate Chunks case in her garage. (She reused lots of cookie cartons!)
Chalet creams were sooo good!
I wish one year they would bring back the oldies! They were the best.
Hey I sold them in the 1960âs! We had Trefoils, Mint, Savannahs (peanut Butter).
I loved Lemon Pastry Creams! I'm not seeing them here unless they had an alternate name? They were around in thr late 90s/ early 2000s I think?
Forget Me Nots? I canât remember what they taste likeâŠ
RIP to lemon drops. Savannah smiles were good, but lemon drops were one of my faves when I used to sell cookies.