It’s Monday, which is usually the day I round up a bunch of my favorite links from the past week and share here. This week, there is really only one thing on my mind worth talking about: Girl Scout Cookies. Mostly because I don’t have any. This is because, 1. I’m trying to be good and not do things like buying enough cookies to warrant little girls to ask me, “Are you building a fort?” (<<–that really happened) and 2. My so-called-friend who usually tells me when his daughter is selling cookies didn’t tell me (YES I’M LOOKING AT YOU BRENDAN) (AND NO FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATES DO NOT COUNT).
Everywhere I go this week, I see people carrying these little over-priced boxes of fudge rippled rainbow happiness. It is maddening. This morning I was driving and I saw a woman with them loaded in her bike basket on her way to work and it occurred to me, for a fleeting moment, that it would not take much effort to knock her bike over with the car. Would I kill her for cookies? No. Of course not. Would I strategically bump the bike thus sending 12 boxes flying out of the basket thus allowing me time to scoop them up and get back in the car before said bike woman was back on her feet? Absolutely. Let’s just take a moment to sit back and admire the strength it took for me to not do that. That’s pretty effing admirable. And yet, despite my admirable restraint, everyone has these cookies BUT ME.
Can you even imagine the horror? The horror. I’m okay with this, but I thought now might be a good time to talk about everything Girl Scout Cookie related that we don’t talk about the rest of the year. It’s a seasonal thing. And people in Canada probably won’t understand so let’s just bundle it all together and get it out of our system, K? K.
And yes, Girl Scout Cookie needs to be in title case. I don’t care if you can’t cite that in the Chicago Manual of Style, some things are just common sense.
Does your dog want too dress up and sell Girl Scout Cookies? Yeah. She does.
Take the quiz: What kind of Girl Scout Cookie are you? PS: I’m a Thin Mint. I knew it!!!
A comprehensive list of beer pairings for Girl Scout Cookies.
Talk about ambition: Congrats to this 11-year-old for hustling her way to selling 18,000 boxes. (Watch the video – Mom looks exhausted).
If you were outside a vintage typewriter shop in Los Altos California last weekend, you could have bought your cookies from Tom Hanks!
Speaking of vintage…interesting fact: In 1942 the Girl Scouts sold calendars instead of cookies because of WWII flour and dairy shortages.
Another fact: for the first 90 days of the year, Girl Scout Cookies are the #1 cookie brand in the USA. Oreos are #1 for the rest of the year.
Another less perky fact: For many years Girl Scout Cookies were made with a controversial ingredient — palm oil. Harvested by major commodity middle-man Cargill, the palm oil used to create Girl Scout Cookies was linked to the destruction of thousands of acres of Indonesian rainforest every year. Good news: after a handful of renegade Girl Scouts recognized the problem (and the whole “make the world a better place” hypocrisy) and demanded change, Girl Scout Cookie adult people listened, made adjustments, and are now are majorly choosy about where they source their ingredients. Way to go, girls!
More good news: Put your zip code in the “Find Cookies” box at the top and it will tell you when a troop near you is selling. This takes out all the serendipitous joy of stumbling into a GSC sale, but this is what it has come to. I have also heard you can buy them online and on Ebay, but you have to go through somebody like you are buying Avon and it’s unnecessarily complicated, which is a lousy way to teach our girls capitalism so I’m keeping it in person.
Thin Mint fan? There are about eleventyseven hundred ways to scratch that itch with recipes you can make at home. Like; this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this.
There is also a recipe for samoa pie that I may or may not be having for breakfast tomorrow.
And while I’m eating it, I may or may not be watching these lost scenes from Troop Beverly Hills!
Now everybody, get on up. It’s cookie time!
I have two sisters (and two brothers), but you must be another sister my mom failed to mention. When are you coming to Seattle? I will plan a “family reunion” and make you look at crafts you have inspired me to make. You can bring that Samoa pie to the family potluck to be held in your honor.
Ha! I’m down. I’m there. Samoa pie will be there too, but you may have to wrestle me to share. 🙂
dear peaches,
thank you for third-party informing me girl scouts will be selling at the walgreens a mere 7 blocks from my house this weekend. you are my new favorite person. now i have a date night idea (not even joking.)
bless you,
mary.
You are most welcome, Mary!
Have you tried the new Toffee-tastic ones? They are gluten free and have a premium price of $5.50.
Since the troop only makes $.50 a box, you can always make a donation instead of buying cookies.
Betsy sold 525 boxes one year. She won the contest in our area.
I had one that wa gluten free last year and it was not my fav, but I’ll try anything once. Wow — 525!
I get that it’s supposed to be a joke, but bumping someone who is cycling could very well cause them to break a bone. Perhaps I’m a bit sensitive because both my husband and I have had cycling related broken bones, but knowing someone even just THOUGHT about the idea is pretty horrifying after the recovery I went through. I do not wish that on anyone, ever.
I would much prefer to think you thought about getting your trusty sidekick to snatch them out of her basket while driving alongside, no harm done to the cyclist.
Hmmm. I don’t know that I have ever been reproved for my thoughts before, but I assure you, no bicyclists were hurt in process of my thinking of cookies. 🙂
From a UK perspective: I hear Americans talk about these Girl Guide Cookies and… well, let’s come clean here – are they drugged? What is it about them that creates that zealot gleam? Yeah, they’re drugged all right…
If deliciousness is a drug, then yes. They are loaded with drugs.
I find myself highly disturbed that Oreo’s are the #1 cookie the rest of the year. I have to scrape the white crap out of the middle to even eat one. All Hail the chocolate chip cookie!
I conquer. I wish they had anti-double stuff oreos. Like with half the filling. I do love the chocoaltey outside though!
Not wanting to brag or anything but I received a care package from Ohio last week in the shape of 2 boxes of samoas…thanks mum!
LUCKY YOU!!
I live like 20 mins from Los Altos and my jaw dropped. I LOVE TOM HANKS. 😯 I was visiting my sister that weekend in florida (also, I’m with you on the cookie thing, down to the bike related injury, HAVE been injured on a bike by a car, and am NOT offended; hell, on the other end, I’d use my bike to ride up next to a car and jack cookies if I had the cardio!) I’m addicted to the lemon cookies myself…lemon coolers are tops with a good glass of the right white wine on the back porch come summer.
“I have also heard you can buy them online and on Ebay, but you have to go through somebody like you are buying Avon and it’s unnecessarily complicated, which is a lousy way to teach our girls capitalism so I’m keeping it in person.” DAMN Skippy.
Also, is there somewhere one can buy a fragrance that’s Thin Mint scented? That would make a wonderful scent for rub on perfume or even a spritzer.
OMG thin mint fragrance???? If someone has not bottled it we need to get on that train asap!!!!