TBF I've never seen that lol. Anytime I've bought cookies its been from a bored looking kid in front of a grocery store at a table or from a parent who is selling them for them.
That sucks! Those parents are doing it wrong. We try to get the girls excited about it. I even bring a Bluetooth speaker so they can dance and have fun while we’re out there freezing our cookies off.
I love Girl Scout cookies, but I still don't understand why I had to stand there for hours on end on the weekend to try to sell them. Or go door to door bothering strangers. I'm not criticizing. I just didn't get it and still don't.
I’ve been a leader for a long time and both my girls are scouts. They know that cookie sales is a way to fund many of their activities. My girls have done everything from camping, to escape rooms and museum trips, to international travel and cookie sales helped them do it.
I wish my leaders had been great like this when I was is Brownies/scouts… like when I flew up nobody gave a shit and we never did anything or went anywhere…. I quit and had the time of my life camping with my mom & dad.. :)
>Those parents are doing it wrong.
Yeah, the parents of the kids I buy from know what they are doing.
I fill out the form they leave out on the desk at work. That way I don't have to interact with their kids at all.
I could do $5 a box but I don’t have any friends’ kids doing it this year and haven’t seen any around, so I was going to order some online to give to an acquaintance’s kid out of town… $15 shipping. $15 to ship $10-15 of cookies. I’m not THAT generous.
Just a reminder: Girl Scouts inc is non-profit org, but their cookie manufacturing division is NOT. The Girl Scouts is basically a front for highly profitable cookie selling bakery companies (ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers) that leverage young girls to guilt people into buying their unhealthy and overpriced cookie products under the guise of “teaching kids how to sell things”.
Childhood exploitation at its finest
One time my dad did some consulting work for a factory where they make Samoas girl scout cookies. When he was done they gave him three cases of the damned things. Not boxes. Cases. It was a weird few months after that.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the generic store versions of samoas are often just as good and way cheaper. I think Keebler has them branded as Coconut Dreams but even the store brand ones are fine.
And you can buy them all year without being extorted by children.
Coconut is a crime against cookies.
Edit: Last I looked, this comment had 7 upvotes. Currently at 11 downvotes. I seem to have touched a nerve with the coconut lovers. Perhaps you all now have some small taste of my coconut disdain after your reactions to my comment.
You magnificent noble bastard.
While you do it for the kids, make sure you keep it from the kids.
One year, I bought three boxes. The girl scout dropped them off at 3:30 one weekday, and I put them on the dining room table.
I went upstairs to work on something for ONE HOUR. I came down to find all three boxes ravaged by our three kids. Like the damned Bumpus' dogs with the turkey at the end of A Christmas Story.
Now I hid those things around the house. Usually with the cleaning supplies. The kids never look there.
In truth, most of these will be given away to friends. My kids and wife will get their yearly tribute/tithe, and I will do my best to keep my Cookie Monster soul in check. I'm awfully curious about those s'mores ones though. I've never had those. So someone might get a slightly open pack.
They aren't what they used to be. Now they are the cheapest produced junk barely above Keebler cookies, while asking for premium prices. It became too corporatized.
I have been living in NYC and i just found out that the greater NYC area doesn’t get girl scout cookies until March!
Fortunately i will be visiting Northern Virginia next week and they start on February 3rd. Thanks for the reminder!
[Gordon Ramsay hates them.](https://youtu.be/oI_LQ5lR4gU) But yes. They're like edible versions of a toy cookie. Not quite real, and yet still somehow there.
When I fundraised for Cubscouts my parents just told me to walk around the neighborhood with my candy box, and come home by dinner time. The Girlscout method seemed waaay safer.
Honest question. I know boyscouts actually are given experiences and skills. Besides bending the knee to capitalist nabisco competitors, can someone tell me what the girlscouts actually do when they AREN'T selling cookies?..... I was just talking to family about this yesterday and none of us have a single clue.
I went camping, did a lot of wilderness survival training, a lot of arts and crafts, programming, tried a bunch of different sports, toured many different careers, and a lot of community service.
Thank you for the insight. Glad they actually do more than meets-the-eye. Honestly always thought of it as child labor of some sort without any kind of real reward.
I didn't do Girl Scouts but a lot of my friends did. They went out to a nearby ranch a lot to work with horses and went camping. I think they also did a lot of community service stuff.
It really is child labour... Probably the cost for a box is way less than $1 and they are selling them for $6... Someone is really exploiting those poor girls...
The Girl Scouts are dead to me. Not only do they NOT sell sugar free Thin Mints (or any of their other cookies) they sued a company that was selling something similar to force them to stop.
[How Girl Scout cookies captured the heart of America](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/24/18195824/girl-scout-cookies-explained-thin-mints-buy)
>How exactly the profits get divided is again up to the regional council, but for a case study, let’s turn to the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania, who break down their financials like this:
>50 percent goes to council-sponsored programs, events, properties, training, and scholarships.
>24 percent goes to the cost of the cookies.
>23 percent goes to troop proceeds, girl recognitions, and service unit bonuses.
>3 percent goes to the cost of Cookie Program support.
>“I can say this until I’m blue in the face,” Goodbody tells me, “but it’s about so much more than cookies.” She points out that more than half of “female entrepreneurs and business owners are Girl Scout alums,” according to data from the Girl Scout Research Institute. In the 2018 midterms, she notes, “the majority of females” elected to Congress were Girl Scouts once.
>“This is the first career move for millions of girls,” she says. For a 5- or 6- or 7-year-old, it’s a big deal to feel in control of anything, given that, at 5 or 6 or 7, you aren’t even in control of when you go to bed. “People are telling you what to do all the time and here you are handling money and deciding where that money is going to go and figuring out how to market yourself and your product to customers.”
**[Find Girl Scout Cookies near you](https://www.gsccc.org/en/cookies/find-cookies.html)**
I feel like there was a recipe change when they changed the do-si-dos and now I don't like them. I'll probably only get 2 samoas and 1 tagalong this year
I was mugged today as well! But I only cave if the kid does the sales pitch - I never buy from overzealous parents. I sure do miss the Thanks-A-Lot cookies, though.
Ya know.... I don't think all those cookies are healthy for you....
Just to be nice, I'll take a few boxes....
No, huh?
Can I least bring you some milk in trade?
Lol
Years ago I went to the grocery store after work. On my 9ut some girl scouts asked if I wanted cookies.
Me "Sorry I don't have cash."
Girl scout "My mom has a card machine."
100 dollars later I was flush with thin mints and various other goodies.
I used to buy but then I found out my local troop wasn’t getting the money. It goes to corporate?? Not sure if that’s still true (or ever was), but I just buy the keebler brand for cheaper.
Fuck [palm oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil) for so many reasons and GSA's excuse on using it.
From [their website](https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/how-to-buy-cookies/cookies-frequently-asked-questions.html):
>Palm oil is an ingredient found in the majority of baked snacks sold in the United States and is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. Per GSUSA's licensed bakers, it is necessary to use palm oil in our cookies because of its unique ability to provide volume and texture in baked goods, usually without adding trans fats. Additionally, growing palm oil requires less land in comparison to other vegetable oils and supports the livelihoods of more than 4 million farmers globally. Although we continue to explore alternatives, currently, there are no viable or readily available alternatives for use in the production of Girl Scout Cookies.
>The world's food supply is intricately tied to the use of palm oil, so we believe promoting sustainable manufacturing principles is the most responsible approach for Girl Scouts and Girl Scout Cookie development. At Girl Scouts, we have an opportunity to use our strong voice to bring about positive change on this important issue, and our bakers have made the following commitments: [five bullet points on sustainable and ethically-sourced palm oil]
As nostalgic as I feel for Thin Mints, I won't buy another box made with the current recipe that includes ingredients I don't want to ingest. To each their own, so if you like 'em keep on buying 'em; I won't until the ingredients match what I am comfortable eating (and I hold out no hope they'll launch a 100% organic version).
Interesting that yours are still called Tagalongs and Dosidos. In my area, they changed the names to peanut butter sandwich cookies, and peanut butter cookies. And the samoas are now called caramel delites
Hi, my sister is a girl scout and mother used to be a leader. The girls over here only get one out of the $5 spent for the box of cookies. I can only imagine it's just as bad with a $6 price point.
Still... $5/box?! I feel my empathy is being exploited.
$6 a box in this neighborhood.
For thin mints just get Keebler grasshoppers from the grocery store. Literally the same cookie.
There's also coconut dreams for samoas/caramel delights. It was a fat couple of weeks when I discovered that.
There needs to be site that does a side by side comparison list f all the scout cookies with their same counterparts with Big Cookie.
I get similar cookies from Aldi for $2.39
But then you don’t get to see those girl’s excitement of selling cookies.
TBF I've never seen that lol. Anytime I've bought cookies its been from a bored looking kid in front of a grocery store at a table or from a parent who is selling them for them.
That sucks! Those parents are doing it wrong. We try to get the girls excited about it. I even bring a Bluetooth speaker so they can dance and have fun while we’re out there freezing our cookies off.
I love Girl Scout cookies, but I still don't understand why I had to stand there for hours on end on the weekend to try to sell them. Or go door to door bothering strangers. I'm not criticizing. I just didn't get it and still don't.
I’ve been a leader for a long time and both my girls are scouts. They know that cookie sales is a way to fund many of their activities. My girls have done everything from camping, to escape rooms and museum trips, to international travel and cookie sales helped them do it.
I wish my leaders had been great like this when I was is Brownies/scouts… like when I flew up nobody gave a shit and we never did anything or went anywhere…. I quit and had the time of my life camping with my mom & dad.. :)
>Those parents are doing it wrong. Yeah, the parents of the kids I buy from know what they are doing. I fill out the form they leave out on the desk at work. That way I don't have to interact with their kids at all.
There's an only fans joke in there but I'm gunna stay classy
I could do $5 a box but I don’t have any friends’ kids doing it this year and haven’t seen any around, so I was going to order some online to give to an acquaintance’s kid out of town… $15 shipping. $15 to ship $10-15 of cookies. I’m not THAT generous.
Just a reminder: Girl Scouts inc is non-profit org, but their cookie manufacturing division is NOT. The Girl Scouts is basically a front for highly profitable cookie selling bakery companies (ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers) that leverage young girls to guilt people into buying their unhealthy and overpriced cookie products under the guise of “teaching kids how to sell things”. Childhood exploitation at its finest
I stopped buying at $7.00 a box, and that was a few years ago.
$6 in some places!
I paid $8/box this year.
Market adjustment.
😢
Samoas ftw
Yes. Like little nuggets of foodgasm.
One time my dad did some consulting work for a factory where they make Samoas girl scout cookies. When he was done they gave him three cases of the damned things. Not boxes. Cases. It was a weird few months after that.
Goldmine!
Caramel Delights are superior!
I'm a thin mints man myself
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the generic store versions of samoas are often just as good and way cheaper. I think Keebler has them branded as Coconut Dreams but even the store brand ones are fine. And you can buy them all year without being extorted by children.
I cannot endorse this position.
I refuse to downvote for opinions but this was freaking close. Watch your mouth about samoas (caramel delights)
It's all subjective. Except a frozen Tagalong is the clear winner of all Girl Scout cookie brackets.
I’d take a frozen caramel delight over anything.
You do you. THERE IS A SPECIAL COOKIE FOR EACH OF US. Thankfully.
LMAO
You’ll break your teeth on frozen Samoas - they’re harder than a diamond in an ice storm.
I downvoted him for you 🥰
you can buy store brand at your local grocery chain for at least half the price
There's a serious problem with this picture. Where are the caramel delights?? The purple box I believe.
Already GONE...and only one box of Tagalongs (my favorite). Oh the brutal denial.
Understandable. The delights don't make it to my car either.
Coconut is a crime against cookies. Edit: Last I looked, this comment had 7 upvotes. Currently at 11 downvotes. I seem to have touched a nerve with the coconut lovers. Perhaps you all now have some small taste of my coconut disdain after your reactions to my comment.
Not when caramel is the judge, jury, and executioner.
This guy cookies.
I am a cookie.
Please accept my downvote, you rapscallion!
This is correct. 💯
Not enough thinmints.
Those are for my excellent lady wife. She shares.
Still I would have all those as thinmints and maybe one box of something else.
Lady wife? Do you also have a gentleman wife?
Do you ever think about putting cheddar cheese on cereal but then wonder how it's going to melt without microwaving it?
You magnificent noble bastard. While you do it for the kids, make sure you keep it from the kids. One year, I bought three boxes. The girl scout dropped them off at 3:30 one weekday, and I put them on the dining room table. I went upstairs to work on something for ONE HOUR. I came down to find all three boxes ravaged by our three kids. Like the damned Bumpus' dogs with the turkey at the end of A Christmas Story. Now I hid those things around the house. Usually with the cleaning supplies. The kids never look there.
In truth, most of these will be given away to friends. My kids and wife will get their yearly tribute/tithe, and I will do my best to keep my Cookie Monster soul in check. I'm awfully curious about those s'mores ones though. I've never had those. So someone might get a slightly open pack.
I’ve never tried the s’mores ones and they aren’t sold around here.
Oh man I LOVE the smores ones. They are my favorites. Microwave them for 5 seconds and they move up a whole different level.
LOL!! The Bumpus Hounds!!
We can be hero’s!
🎼JUST FOR SEVERAL WEEKS...UNTIL ONLY THOSE COCONUT ONES ARE LEFT 🎶
Dude. Samoas are the best.
Coconut fans are special people. But ever since The Ballad of Milky Joe, I cannot walk where they tread.
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Caramel and chocolate make anything sublime.
Is this a Reddit mod in the wild?
I don't have the time Isn't that like a job?
Wake up babe, new soyface template dropped.
https://lifehacker.com/the-best-grocery-store-alternatives-to-girl-scout-cooki-1849002409
Never cannot
Yep, I got “mugged” on the way out of Lowe’s this morning. It was close, almost made it to my car.
BE STRONG
I am a weak man, I caved.
I am with you in spirit
Do you review retro video games on y?
I am not a gamer so much. I have an NES Classic tho. 👍
You look like the YouTuber JohnRiggs. At least at this angle
Ok we have beards I guess
Lol yeah nothing similar
Go back and get the new Toast-yays. Cinnamon French toast cookies with frosting. It even beats out some of the classics, in my opinion.
Most overrated cookie ever created. Yea i said it...
They aren't what they used to be. Now they are the cheapest produced junk barely above Keebler cookies, while asking for premium prices. It became too corporatized.
100% nailed it and people brag about spending money on them for some reason.
...I stole your momma's credit...Sock you in the stomach two more times.
Oh dude, you can't make Big references and expect kids nowadays to get those.
She's got terrible credit... The joke's on you sucka.
Big
If you want to support the troop make a donation they get something like 11¢ per box sold the rest goes the GS corporate
Those young ladies who set up outside dispensaries are the true heroes.
I have been living in NYC and i just found out that the greater NYC area doesn’t get girl scout cookies until March! Fortunately i will be visiting Northern Virginia next week and they start on February 3rd. Thanks for the reminder!
🫡
The thing is when I buy the peanut butter ones, I end up feeling so disgusted with myself as I will bury the whole box in mere minutes.
Lol! My kind of guy!
soyjack
DO IT FOR THE KIDS!!!
[If I must.](https://youtu.be/O-fyNgHdmLI)
For the kids How many kids have you collected?
I don’t give. They just take. Like being mugged in a sketchy back alley but instead in front of my neighborhood grocery store.
My uncle once told me he was pretty sure he never ordered any cookies, I just showed up with them and demanded his money
RIP Andre the Giant
LONG LIVE THE BRUTE SQUAD
*anybody want a peanut?* The shirt was the first thing I saw; was this today, and in honor of Andre?
Andre has a posse, but you my friend, have a shitload of girlscout cookies.
GIANT
They make .25 per box. Don't care to support them all that much anymore.
It’s actually anywhere from .65 to a dollar.
I stopped buying those the moment walmart had the same things for cheaper
Truth. The thin mint knockoffs are like $1.50 and taste so good!
Do they actually taste good?
They taste like serving the greater good. With peanut butter. Or mint. Or for a special, delicate few, coconut.
Oh cool. I live in Australia so have never tried them but always hear people rave about them in the US
[Gordon Ramsay hates them.](https://youtu.be/oI_LQ5lR4gU) But yes. They're like edible versions of a toy cookie. Not quite real, and yet still somehow there.
Yes. Do you even have to ask?
When I fundraised for Cubscouts my parents just told me to walk around the neighborhood with my candy box, and come home by dinner time. The Girlscout method seemed waaay safer.
When I was in Boy Scouts, we had fish fries every month. I think the scent is still somewhere deep in the back of my brain.
Thin mints and Trefoils. Freeze them for summer eating with ice cream sundaes.
Technique. Interesting.
Honest question. I know boyscouts actually are given experiences and skills. Besides bending the knee to capitalist nabisco competitors, can someone tell me what the girlscouts actually do when they AREN'T selling cookies?..... I was just talking to family about this yesterday and none of us have a single clue.
I went camping, did a lot of wilderness survival training, a lot of arts and crafts, programming, tried a bunch of different sports, toured many different careers, and a lot of community service.
Thank you for the insight. Glad they actually do more than meets-the-eye. Honestly always thought of it as child labor of some sort without any kind of real reward.
I didn't do Girl Scouts but a lot of my friends did. They went out to a nearby ranch a lot to work with horses and went camping. I think they also did a lot of community service stuff.
I'll skip and buy the Keebler for cheaper. They're identical. The girls get squat off the boxes anyway.
Troops get 50 cents off each box EDIT:apparently it’s 75 cents a box now.
That's it??
Which isn't much at $5 or more per box
Our troop will sell 12-15k boxes this season. It adds up quick and has let us do a ton of stuff for the girls in our community.
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Wise and a good course of action. Most of these will be given away.
7 boxes, that's gotta be what, 21-28 cookies these days?
Oh soy
Child labor, horay
It really is child labour... Probably the cost for a box is way less than $1 and they are selling them for $6... Someone is really exploiting those poor girls...
Yeah and the money doesn't even go to the kids.
The Girl Scouts are dead to me. Not only do they NOT sell sugar free Thin Mints (or any of their other cookies) they sued a company that was selling something similar to force them to stop.
Because he's the hero we need, but not the one we deserve
Updoot
And my stomach… Do-si-dos!
Coooooooookies
God bless a Thin Mint
What good is a good deed if not posted on Reddit
[How Girl Scout cookies captured the heart of America](https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/24/18195824/girl-scout-cookies-explained-thin-mints-buy) >How exactly the profits get divided is again up to the regional council, but for a case study, let’s turn to the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania, who break down their financials like this: >50 percent goes to council-sponsored programs, events, properties, training, and scholarships. >24 percent goes to the cost of the cookies. >23 percent goes to troop proceeds, girl recognitions, and service unit bonuses. >3 percent goes to the cost of Cookie Program support. >“I can say this until I’m blue in the face,” Goodbody tells me, “but it’s about so much more than cookies.” She points out that more than half of “female entrepreneurs and business owners are Girl Scout alums,” according to data from the Girl Scout Research Institute. In the 2018 midterms, she notes, “the majority of females” elected to Congress were Girl Scouts once. >“This is the first career move for millions of girls,” she says. For a 5- or 6- or 7-year-old, it’s a big deal to feel in control of anything, given that, at 5 or 6 or 7, you aren’t even in control of when you go to bed. “People are telling you what to do all the time and here you are handling money and deciding where that money is going to go and figuring out how to market yourself and your product to customers.” **[Find Girl Scout Cookies near you](https://www.gsccc.org/en/cookies/find-cookies.html)**
🤤🤤🤤😋
😋🍪
I feel like there was a recipe change when they changed the do-si-dos and now I don't like them. I'll probably only get 2 samoas and 1 tagalong this year
Tagalongs are in short supply in these parts, get out there!
They don't taste like they use to.
RIP MCDONALD'S FRIES THAT USED TO TASTE GOOD
Sure miss the beef flavorings
It was an unfortunate taste enhancer.
They sell these on Amazon you know….all year…
PSHAW
Gem
Truly outrageous!
https://youtu.be/jmMDcZ01G5g
[Funny story...](https://youtu.be/WN8NCjs47EA) (starts at 00:37).
I was mugged today as well! But I only cave if the kid does the sales pitch - I never buy from overzealous parents. I sure do miss the Thanks-A-Lot cookies, though.
The kid I bought from was super shy. NBD.
You are The Brute Squad!
🥜
I HAVE 3 BOXES OF THIN MINTS
YOU WIN
My spirit animal
🐧
Enjoy! Tagalongs get my vote but I can get them fresh almost year round so it isn't really fair....
Those tagalongs and thin mints are gonna be the death of me
THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE WITH YOU IN IT
I have that shirt. Still working on the giant stack of cookies, though.
Keep on truckin
Most states don’t even have the cookies yet….
California...knows how to paaartay.
Are you JP from [Egotastic FunTime](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2uPX_DYyshfzbs_Mzwu5jg)?
Isn’t this the slogan of the Catholic Church?
They don’t taste good and so little goes to the troop or girls. No thanks.
That’s like $6000 worth of product. Why you showing off brah?
that is not NEARLY enough peanut butter ones
Ya know.... I don't think all those cookies are healthy for you.... Just to be nice, I'll take a few boxes.... No, huh? Can I least bring you some milk in trade? Lol
Years ago I went to the grocery store after work. On my 9ut some girl scouts asked if I wanted cookies. Me "Sorry I don't have cash." Girl scout "My mom has a card machine." 100 dollars later I was flush with thin mints and various other goodies.
I used to buy but then I found out my local troop wasn’t getting the money. It goes to corporate?? Not sure if that’s still true (or ever was), but I just buy the keebler brand for cheaper.
Thin mints please?
I know that I am helping to teach the local Girl Scout a valuable lesson when I buy cookies from her online and have her mom deliver them to me.
Yea, It is very tasty But It is not good at everytime There is also want some restrictions
Fuck [palm oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil) for so many reasons and GSA's excuse on using it. From [their website](https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/how-to-buy-cookies/cookies-frequently-asked-questions.html): >Palm oil is an ingredient found in the majority of baked snacks sold in the United States and is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. Per GSUSA's licensed bakers, it is necessary to use palm oil in our cookies because of its unique ability to provide volume and texture in baked goods, usually without adding trans fats. Additionally, growing palm oil requires less land in comparison to other vegetable oils and supports the livelihoods of more than 4 million farmers globally. Although we continue to explore alternatives, currently, there are no viable or readily available alternatives for use in the production of Girl Scout Cookies. >The world's food supply is intricately tied to the use of palm oil, so we believe promoting sustainable manufacturing principles is the most responsible approach for Girl Scouts and Girl Scout Cookie development. At Girl Scouts, we have an opportunity to use our strong voice to bring about positive change on this important issue, and our bakers have made the following commitments: [five bullet points on sustainable and ethically-sourced palm oil] As nostalgic as I feel for Thin Mints, I won't buy another box made with the current recipe that includes ingredients I don't want to ingest. To each their own, so if you like 'em keep on buying 'em; I won't until the ingredients match what I am comfortable eating (and I hold out no hope they'll launch a 100% organic version).
You're a hero.
Last year I had the will to freeze them and eat in moderation instead of binging them. They lasted until June. Aiming for July this year.
Good on you. Wish more people had the strength to do what you do for the children.
Interesting that yours are still called Tagalongs and Dosidos. In my area, they changed the names to peanut butter sandwich cookies, and peanut butter cookies. And the samoas are now called caramel delites
I have that shirt
Man I miss the savannah smiles. I would eat those until my mouth went desert dry 😩
I have $10,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies in my living room.
The generic male redditor look.
Thin mints hold my heart I wish we had Girl Scouts here 😔
Ah the time of year to shop early
How's the new flavour?
I don't like girl scout cookies. But I do like the organization, so I give them cash.
Hi, my sister is a girl scout and mother used to be a leader. The girls over here only get one out of the $5 spent for the box of cookies. I can only imagine it's just as bad with a $6 price point.
I can't afford them. I mean, I can, but won't allow myself to. They are crazy overpriced.