You know you are getting up there in age when many of your stories include phrases like when I was a child or I remember when. Since it seems like a lot of my stories start that way recently so you can draw your own conclusions!
Though I was never a girl scout myself, I have a long history with girl scout cookies. A friend of mine down the street who was a little younger than me was a girl scout and I used to help her sell them. It was kind of a treat for me because my school was always asking us to sell hard things like magazine subscriptions. Girl scout cookies were a breeze – they practically sell themselves!
But it was difficult for even a young child to resist the allure of all those cookies. I used to buy boxes of thin mints with my allowance and stash them in my bedroom. No worries of attracting insects because they never lasted very long! The serving size in the nutritional information really should just say “2″ – I can easily eat an entire tube at one sitting and I’d like to think that everyone else is doing exactly the same thing. I’d like to know what they put in Thin Mints because I can resist all other varieties of Girl Scout cookies but those. The only way for me to resist them is not to buy them at all.
(And incidentally – that Thin Mint Blizzard that Dairy Queen was hyping last summer was a big disappointment. It was Oreos and mint sauce in ice cream. Not a bad Blizzard but NOT Thin Mints)
I’ll be making a quick trip back to the US soon and a friend asked me would I like any girl scout cookies. Does anyone ever say no to girl scout cookies?? Even the cat in the picture is even sitting on a box of my favorite variety! I think my only hope is to avoid eye contact if I see any Girl Scouts or I may have to pay for excess baggage on the return flight!
Ah, yes, good ol’ Girl Scout cookies. Sold them myself 100 years ago when I proudly wore the (ugly) green uniform.
When my husband was teaching, he found it difficult to turn down any of the kids selling them, and even though he made it a policy to limit the purchase to one box per Girl Scout, he would often end up with more boxes than we could ever consume.
Over the years (unfortunately), the boxes contain fewer cookies, the cookies are smaller, the price is higher and I personally think the quality has gone way down.
Sorry, didn’t mean to end this fond remembrance on a negative note. Give me some Thin Mints and I’ll go away.
by Mama Pea March 11th, 2010 at 12:28 pmI was hoping that it wasn’t really that the boxes were smaller, but that my perception was different! But if they are smaller that means that eating a tube of them at a time, right???
by Jenyfer March 11th, 2010 at 3:44 pmI’m so with you on the thin mints front. However, my favorite Girl Scout cookies are the tagalongs (chocolate and peanut butter). And the Dairy Queen tagalong blizzard was AMAZING. Loved it. Join the club, I can eat a whole tube of thin mints without getting sick of them.
by Jennifer Elliott March 15th, 2010 at 8:33 pm