I hate girl scout cookies.

[Anonymous]

My Girl Scout hates you!

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Anonymous wrote:There are two bakeries. The one that serves the DC area is gross. ABC bakers in other states have the GS cookies like we had back in the day

ABC is the one that has vegan options too

Is that why my samoas don’t taste as buttery anymore? They’re like cardboard now. Thin mints are still ok.

[Anonymous]

I love them.

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I actually love the square mint chocolate cookies that Costco sells during the holidays more than thin mints

[Anonymous]

I buy from my friend’s daughter because they’re an American institution but don’t think they’re worth it, both in price and taste.

[Anonymous]

Who loves all the chemical ingredients in those cookies?

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Anonymous wrote:There are two bakeries. The one that serves the DC area is gross. ABC bakers in other states have the GS cookies like we had back in the day

ABC is the one that has vegan options too

Oh, haha, my area sells ABC Bakers and I thought Little Brownie Bakers was considered to be better.

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I only wish they offer healthier alternatives. At least make them organic especially when we are getting kids selling food other kids eat! Just reduce the amount to keep it affordable.

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Anonymous wrote:There are two bakeries. The one that serves the DC area is gross. ABC bakers in other states have the GS cookies like we had back in the day

ABC is the one that has vegan options too

This. I didn't even know until I tried to be nice and buy some from a friend's daughter in Ohio. We live in NC and get awesome ABC cookies. Had some shipped from the Ohio girl's webpage and they were garbage. I threw out 6 boxes of cookies and then drove around looking for girlscouts in front of a grocery store to redeem myself to my disappointed teenager, lol.

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Thin Mints and Samoas are just Keebler cookies containing fewer cookies at a marked up price.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t buy. Problem solved. If you decide to buy, STFU and buy.

No. Deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. They’re made with poor quality ingredients and are no better than generic supermarket cookies. People are attached because of nostalgia and ties to Girl Scouts and “girl empowerment”.

Not generic supermarket cookies! I would never!

Some of you really need to get over yourselves. They are a certain kind of cookie. If it's not your thing, don't buy them. The end.

Other people have opinions, will express them and you really need to get over yourself. The end.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t buy. Problem solved. If you decide to buy, STFU and buy.

Ohhh hit a nerve

We rattled the cage of Crazy Cookie Mom.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like someone doesn’t know that thin mints go in the freezer. life changing, OP. Try it.

Also, I’m sorry. These activities will be behind you before you know it though. I’m pretty sure my girl is in her last year of scouts so I’m a bit nostalgic.

Op here, my kids don't do girl scouts but lots of their friends do. So my doorbell was ringing like crazy, my texts and emails piling up, and getting accosted outside the supermarket. I buy a box or two from the closest friend but they're just so not worth it to me.

And yes I've frozen thin mints. Meh.

You don't have to buy them for yourself, you can donate money to the "Troop 2 Troop" program and they will send boxes to the military. They really do it, I have several friends who said they received boxes when they were stationed overseas and loved getting them. One co-worker told me that sometimes by the time they got them, they were in crumbles, and he really enjoyed making "thin mint cereal". He bought some to donate from my daughters!

They are only being polite. The military doesn’t want them either. They get boxes upon boxes of them and toss a large number of them because no one wants them.

This. They get WAY more than they can store or use. It’s just a feel good for the buyer and a sales driver for the GS.

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Anonymous wrote:Girl Scout mom here - I agree, most of them are not very good and I HATE the focus on selling cookies/fundraising. Girl Scouts is so much fun, but they like to bill cookie sales as "entrepreneurship" and it's not, it's just plain fundraising and I hate it.

I absolutely despised having to sell cookies and it was one of the two reasons I left Girl Scouts.

The other reason? I thought we'd be going camping and learning natural history and outdoor skills, and, instead, we made sit-upons and decorated lunch boxes.

All of this +1000.

I’m GenX and while my brothers went on multiple awesome outdoor adventures, I sat in classrooms after school with my troop getting makeup tutorials and one interminable Saturday afternoon where a woman came to “do our colors” and tell us whether we should buy clothes in the colors of “winter, spring, summer or fall.” Barf. I wish Boy Scouts had been open to all when I was a kid.