Girl Scout cookies are a scam!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course they are, and not just for that reason.

The cookies taste bad, because they're not made with great ingredients (pure butter, please).
And girls are pressured by certain troupes and parents to sell those awful things.
Parents then annoy everyone in their circle by trying to make sales.

It's really sexist to expect girls to sell COOKIES when boy scouts aren't tied to that tradition.

Um...

The boys sell popcorn.

You are looking for outrage where there is none.

The outrage ia in the hobbit sized cookies, not manufactured sexism.

No, for several reasons:
Boy Scouts are not inextricably linked to sales of one particular type of food as Girl Scouts are. You don't think: "Yeah! It's the season to buy BS Popcorn!" and post it all over your social media...
Popcorn doesn't have the feminine connotation that cookies do in people's minds.

Guys can make popcorn. Cookies: people think "mother in the kitchen". Understand that this perhaps doesn't happen that way in YOUR house. But it is the popular conception.
It's amazing that people here do not see what's right in front of their nose - that GS still has some trappings of misogyny. The cookies need to go, and be replaced by another, or a variety of different items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: So it's a scam all the way around.

well aren't all fundraisers?

pies from bands, wrapping paper, ect.... just stroke a check to the group directly s they get themoney...

[Anonymous]

They need to do a groupon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course they are, and not just for that reason.

The cookies taste bad, because they're not made with great ingredients (pure butter, please).
And girls are pressured by certain troupes and parents to sell those awful things.
Parents then annoy everyone in their circle by trying to make sales.

It's really sexist to expect girls to sell COOKIES when boy scouts aren't tied to that tradition.

Um...

The boys sell popcorn.

You are looking for outrage where there is none.

The outrage ia in the hobbit sized cookies, not manufactured sexism.

No, for several reasons:
Boy Scouts are not inextricably linked to sales of one particular type of food as Girl Scouts are. You don't think: "Yeah! It's the season to buy BS Popcorn!" and post it all over your social media...
Popcorn doesn't have the feminine connotation that cookies do in people's minds.

Guys can make popcorn. Cookies: people think "mother in the kitchen". Understand that this perhaps doesn't happen that way in YOUR house. But it is the popular conception.
It's amazing that people here do not see what's right in front of their nose - that GS still has some trappings of misogyny. The cookies need to go, and be replaced by another, or a variety of different items.

I feel like you've never met a boy scout or cub scout, or been to the grocery store or church during Popcorn season. They are everywhere and at least as aggressive as the Girl Scouts. And they make a LOT More on it than GS because they are ridiculously over-charging. If there's sexism, it's sort of in that entrenched sexism where men feel entitled to ask for the sun, the moon and the stars in contract negotiations, whereas women feel like they need to have a "reasonable" ask. The boys get $15 for a small bag of caramel corn, and the girls get $4 for a box of cookies. They are both tasty in a not-baked-at-home way. The only reason that girls are "associated" with the cookies is that: (1) the cookies are popular and have been around for 50 years; and (2) people are sexist and would rather think of girl scouts as cookie purveyers, rather than as young women who are learning to camp, light fires, and advocating for the end of child marriage laws in places like New Hampshire. I'd love to change the second thing, but getting rid of cookies-which would rob the GS of needed money to fund their programs--is not the way to do it.

[Anonymous]

I haven't seen anyone ever buy a bag of popcorn from a cub scout at the grocery store. People just walk by them ($15 a bag is steep). Where as GS tables usually have at least one or two people buy. GS have done a lot of marketing, so much that there are cereals and copycats out there. Not so much for the CS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it weird that I love those peanut butter sandwich ones? Nobody else in my family will touch them. And they are jam packed in their little cookie sleeves in the box, so they are a good value, too.

Do-Si-Dos! I do, PP! Hurray, there are at least two of us. No one else in my family likes them either and I don't know why. The crunchiness and the peanut butter, yum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Becsus this bodes all cost the same (except for the gluten free and the s’mores), the ones that are more expensive to bake have fewer cookies per box.

And to respond to PP about the 50 cents, that’s incorrect. Cookies and packaging cost $1. Of the remaining $3, $.70 goes to the individual troop. The other $2.30 is split between the Council (which, in this area, covers the great DC area) and the Service Unit (which usually covers a couple schools). The Service Unit uses the money to subsidize things like camping trips and the Council uses it for scholarships, to maintain the many GS camps, and for stuff like the program kits (eg, telescopes that can be checked out by troops for stargazing programs, etc.)

It’s not like MLM because it’s not a pyramid scheme. As far as fundraisers go, I find it less bothersome than the overpriced Boy Scout popcorn, the wrapping paper stuff, and the fancy balls that charities throw were they spend as much as they take in so that people can go someplace in formal wear “for a good cause.” But that’s just me.

Thank you for the breakdown because I'm happy to spend more for the girl scouts benefit. I'll just pretend they are gourmet.

[Anonymous]

Every GS cookie is NASTY. Non of my 3 kid like any of them. BUt, I feel compelled to buy them every year from a couple of friends. My husband takes them to work and people eat them up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Aldi Tagalogs and thin mints are sooo good

Do they only have them seasonally?

[Anonymous]

The only ones I like are the shortbreads (Trefoils).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Aldi Tagalogs and thin mints are sooo good

Do they only have them seasonally?

Nope. They are different packaging but same exact
cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can Aldi sell girl scout cookies? Are they legit?

They are their own versions, the same way Keebler can sell Samoas and call them Coconut Dreams. But Keebler is awful. I haven't met one of their cookies that I have liked.

[Anonymous]

Boy scout troops get 70% of every bag of popcorn they sell

Girl scout troops get .40c for every box they sell

Do the math and see who is getting scammed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy scout troops get 70% of every bag of popcorn they sell

Girl scout troops get .40c for every box they sell

Do the math and see who is getting scammed

Incorrect. Girls get .65-.70 per box, depending on whether the troop opts for prizes. I’ve been our Troop cookie Mom for 8 years. I know what I’m talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it weird that I love those peanut butter sandwich ones? Nobody else in my family will touch them. And they are jam packed in their little cookie sleeves in the box, so they are a good value, too.

Do-Si-Dos! I do, PP! Hurray, there are at least two of us. No one else in my family likes them either and I don't know why. The crunchiness and the peanut butter, yum.

+1 There are 3 of us!!