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Don't take away our Girl Scout Thin Mints! You could practically hear the cry from anguished Girl Scout-cookie lovers from Philly to Pasadena when the Wall Street Journal reported that the Girl Scouts are getting down to business in this recession and may cut back on flavors to make the annual sale more profitable.
The new pilot Super Six program, reports the Journal, keeps Thin Mints (yay!), Do-Si-Dos, Trefoils shortbread cookies, Samoas and Tagalongs, Lemon Chalet Cremes. But U-Berry-Munch, All Abouts (shortbread + fudge) and sugar-free chocolate chip cookies? They may go the way of the AMC Gremlin. In other words, good-bye, and will we remember you were ever here?
"We're all seeking a little more simplicity," Amanda Hamaker, the manager of national product sales for the Girl Scouts, told the Wall Street Journal. "Our top five varieties make up 77 percent of cookie sales," Hamaker said. "The others are yummy and fun, but they're side dressing -- leaving councils with an awful lot of alternate varieties left over."
Cookie fans seem to agree: On the official Girl Scout blog, Debbie Johnson writes: "As a fellow Girl Scout and leader for 6 years, I agree with the idea to focus on the strengths of the cookie program."
At $714 million in sales, the Girl Scout Cookie program doesn't mess around. And they know never to touch the Thin Mint, their top seller. As a former Girl Scout (and Samoa lover, which have a gazillion calories per cookie, and worth every one), I can tell you that if I ever ran out of Thin Mints as I tentatively approached the doors in my suburban neighborhood during a cookie sale, I knew it was going to be one tough pitch. I might as well hang up my badge-covered sash for the day and wait until the next batch of those chocolatey-minty sweets in the green box arrived. They're just plain great eating.
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1-28-2011 @9:25AM Kenny Nash said... Only In America ! We have 30,000,000 people out of work and 2.5 milllion "MORE" homes about to go into foreclosure a 14,000,000,000,000 deficit and we are worried about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. YOU gotta love lving here....LOL
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1-28-2011 @10:04AM Mitzi said... at $3.50 a box who can afford to buy their cookies, years ago I would buy 10 boxes
1-29-2011 @4:29AM Terry said... Well you could just move to another Country if you are that discouraged with America & Americans. Oh and by the way, I do love this Country!
1-28-2011 @11:20AM mhoney6943 said... Kenny, without girl scout cookies being sold, there would be more people unemployed., after all that's one way the girl scouts stay in business. The cookies sold sure don't do anything to help the troups out because they get very little money off the sales, even though they bust their butts selling them. So all those GS executives would be out of a job, with out all those millions of dollars coming in to pay their salaries.
1-28-2011 @12:15PM Barbara said... They are providing jobs. Look up what they do provide since you like statistics so much..get a life.
1-28-2011 @11:54AM CJ CHERRETRE said... I totally agree with Kenny !
Girl Scout Cookies is NOT WHAT WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT !!!
KENNY, SO TRUE " ONLY IN AMERICA" it's funny but NOT !!!
1-28-2011 @12:19PM Darlene said... Well, I WANT MY GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, and I want them to be Samoas!!! You can all talk about the shape this country is in (no pun intended), but we can certainly have our little pleasures to take us away from it for just a few minutes and enjoy, if not baseball, hot dogs and apple pie, our Samoa cookies.
1-31-2011 @10:07AM GSlover said... Don't be ridiculous! In bad times it's nice to have the old favorite, familiar things around! Self promoting? Come on! The Girl Scouts is a good organization, doing a lot of community projects and teaching girls to think more of themselves than just a playtoy for boys/men. You want to protest something, protest the constant message to our girls that they are nothing but bodies for men to admire!
1-28-2011 @1:02PM Cookie Monster said... I usually buy a dozen boxes each year. The problem here is that they may be dropping my favorite Samoas. If that happens then they will lose a customer. The Samoas are the ONLY cookies that they make that I like. No Samoas. No sale.
1-28-2011 @8:22PM Igor said... Kenny, you have a good point and the sad thing is I don't see that picture changing very soon.
1-28-2011 @1:45PM tcburch said... Get over yourself buddy...It isn't only America with problems, it's global you dolt. And by the way, since you're so intelligent, which America are you talking about? North America (which by the way includes Canada)...Central America...or, perhaps South America. They are all Americas...so, let's hear back from you, you self serving egoist...
1-28-2011 @1:59PM Nicole said... Aggreed Cookie Monster!
1-28-2011 @2:01PM Saundra Beckum said... DARLENE: Rest assured. They did not say they were discontinuing Samoas. They were one of the six that they were retaining. The three that followed were the ones they were discontinuing. We all have our favorites. Coming from a former Girl Scout, may Scout cookies remain forever!
1-28-2011 @2:09PM LISA said... AT LEAST THE GIRL SCOUTS ARE TRYING TO TEACH OUR YOUNG CHILDREN MORALS! I CAN'T SAY THAT ABOUT MOST PARENTS! I'M WISH I KNEW SOMEONE IN THE GIRLSCOUTS SO THAT I COULD BY A CASE OF THE THIN MINTS. THEY'RE LIKE CRACK IN MY HOUSE...LOL
1-28-2011 @2:16PM KIM said... JEAZE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT BLOG YOU CLICK ON IT'S ALL THE SAME. PEOPLE JUST TEARING INTO OTHER PEOPLE. PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING. EVEN WITH TODAYS PROBLEMS WE ARE ALL PRETTY DAMN LUCKY!!!! I JUST WISH FOR ONE DAY ANYONE WITH SOMETHING MISERABLE TO SAY WOULD JUST NOT SAY IT. I GUESS MISERY REALLY DOES LOVE COMPANY.
1-28-2011 @4:28PM BethRA said... I'm not sure a FOOD blog is the best place to complain about having to read food-related articles.
1-28-2011 @8:43PM Blonde Ambition said... Girl Scout cookie sales are a comforting yearly American ritual. The GSA needs money, too. Bring on the Thin Mints ...
1-28-2011 @9:51PM Fred said... yes Kenny, I DO love living here. Not everyone sits around worrying about everybody's everything. Yes, foreclosures happen to good people during hard times, but 1/2 of these folks should not have bought a home to begin with. If they discontinued your favorite coffee, snack or whatever, you might be upset. But the Girl Scouts teach young ladies morals, and build character. Would it be better if they were out in the streets becoming baby mommas with no baby daddy? No one said the flavors of GS cookies were earth shattering, but put it all in perspective.
1-29-2011 @12:35AM LoLatKennyNash said... Kenny Nash posted this...tidbit: "
Only In America ! We have 30,000,000 people out of work and 2.5 milllion "MORE" homes about to go into foreclosure a 14,000,000,000,000 deficit and we are worried about GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. YOU gotta love lving here....LOL"
My reply: Uh-huh. And ONLY IN AMERICA is someone SO SELF ASORBED that someone like Kenny Nash whines and complains about a BLOG article on a site about food doesn't cover some national issue like unemployment or the recession. There's plenty of articles about such Kenny. But since this is a blog about food, restaurants and so forth, I doubt you'll find too many articles about unemployment or the recession. That's kind of like going to the produce department of a grocery store and demanding a pound of hamburger, and then getting upset that they told you to go to the meat department. So ONLY IN AMERICA do we have people like Kenny whom would do such a thing.
1-29-2011 @5:24AM Magna said... Oh Kenny QUIT! This country IS bad off and it's been bad off before. Does that mean that one has to give up every little pleasure in life? HECK NO! We've lost a home in a hurricane, we've survived on less than $30K a year for 20+ years and yet went without NOTHING. Ever heard of budgeting? If one cannot enjoy a little thing like a couple boxes of Girl Scout cookies a year, why bother doing anything other than living for the bills? You have that dang you tube link on every post you make. HOW much money did you spend on video cameras and music, etc? (wasn't worth it) So leave people alone who want to have a few simple pleasures in life that don't come NEAR what you spent for those you tube videos you blew money on!