I need to make a decision about Girl Scout cookies

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Hoosier_Daddy said:
Not even close!:nope: Bummer, I wish it were true but that is like saying diet coke and coke taste the same. Or Coke and the generic are the same.

More to the point it is like Burger king is the same as Mcdonalds. Or that Ghiradelli is the same as Palmer. Yuck!

If they were identical, then no one would buy thin mints and grasshopper sales would be through the roof. As it is thin mint is the most popular GS cookie and the grasshoppers at my store collect dust on the shelf.🤷
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Thin Mints are the second most popular store bought cookie in the US, second only to Oreo. Pretty good for a cookie that’s only sold a few weeks a year!
 
UbiCaritas said:
I am not going to get in the middle of this argument, but a PSA for those of us who have a deep and lasting affection for Girl Scouts’ Thin Mints:

*Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies are virtually identical to, and are even made in the same factory as, GS Thin Mints. *…
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Thanks for the info. There is almost always an alternative for those who don’t want to buy them. For me, it’s only partially about the cookies. I also buy them to support the school troop, and because they support us at popcorn time.
 
Allegra said:
Thin Mints are the second most popular store bought cookie in the US, second only to Oreo. Pretty good for a cookie that’s only sold a few weeks a year!
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Back in the 60’s when all I sold were the Thin Mints and the Dutch Shortbread, customers chose the shortbread 2 to 1 over the mints. My, how times (and tastes) have changed. But then, the shortbread variety was made more like real shortbread then – probably used real butter.
 
I was all Jazzed about not doing GS cookies this year. This was going to be the year that my principles were not to be overridden by my stomach! Then my wife comes home with the contraband purchased from a dealer at her work. As she is holding the bag full of “breaking bad,” she says “So, what was our decision on GS cookies this year?” I sighed as I grabbed a cookie and got it all over my blue muppet fur as I shoved it in my mouth. I had also made up my mind to forgo Coke. I was snorting the stuff left and right, and after the Super Bowl Ad with the homosexual parents I decided to add them to my boycott list as well. Something had to wash the thin minty taste from my mouth, so I washed it down with the sweet elixir of the dark side.

All because of my wife…

Freakin Eve!
“Devil, thy name is Woman.”
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
Not even close!:nope: Bummer, I wish it were true but that is like saying diet coke and coke taste the same. Or Coke and the generic are the same.

More to the point it is like Burger king is the same as Mcdonalds. Or that Ghiradelli is the same as Palmer. Yuck!

If they were identical, then no one would buy thin mints and grasshopper sales would be through the roof. As it is thin mint is the most popular GS cookie and the grasshoppers at my store collect dust on the shelf.🤷
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It’s possible to make them. I don’t have a recipe, but we made them in my chemistry class in high school. I don’t remember what principle it was supposed to teach us, but they were yummy and spot-on.

We also made peanut brittle in that class. I think I know why I remember that class fondly, but don’t remember much chemistry…
 
pensmama87 said:
It’s possible to make them. I don’t have a recipe, but we made them in my chemistry class in high school. I don’t remember what principle it was supposed to teach us, but they were yummy and spot-on.

We also made peanut brittle in that class. I think I know why I remember that class fondly, but don’t remember much chemistry…
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Well, perhaps to the untrained layman’s tastebuds. But there are those of us who demand perfection.

There is no way I will ever believe you. You could put your best replica in front of me and I would know. It is silly to suggest otherwise with a product that is only made on a limited basis and yet people would buy it year round. There is a reason why you are not making the rounds at people’s work selling these little pieces of gold. Because it cannot be done. Legally. And probably practically. All the time on instagram or mommmy blogs there are people that say I can make “Mcdonalds, coke, GS cookies, KFC, etc.” just like the original. It is a white whale.

You can make a thin, chocolate minty cookie that satisfies all the qualifications. It is not nor ever will be a thin mint.
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
I was all Jazzed about not doing GS cookies this year. This was going to be the year that my principles were not to be overridden by my stomach! Then my wife comes home with the contraband purchased from a dealer at her work. As she is holding the bag full of “breaking bad,” she says “So, what was our decision on GS cookies this year?” I sighed as I grabbed a cookie and got it all over my blue muppet fur as I shoved it in my mouth. I had also made up my mind to forgo **Coke. I was snorting the stuff **left and right, and after the Super Bowl Ad with the homosexual parents I decided to add them to my boycott list as well. Something had to wash the thin minty taste from my mouth, so I washed it down with the sweet elixir of the dark side.

All because of my wife…

Freakin Eve!
“Devil, thy name is Woman.”
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😃 I hope you weren’t really snorting the coke. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. 😛
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
Well, perhaps to the untrained layman’s tastebuds. But there are those of us who demand perfection.

There is no way I will ever believe you. You could put your best replica in front of me and I would know. It is silly to suggest otherwise with a product that is only made on a limited basis and yet people would buy it year round. There is a reason why you are not making the rounds at people’s work selling these little pieces of gold. Because it cannot be done. Legally. And probably practically. All the time on instagram or mommmy blogs there are people that say I can make “Mcdonalds, coke, GS cookies, KFC, etc.” just like the original. It is a white whale.

You can make a thin, chocolate minty cookie that satisfies all the qualifications. It is not nor ever will be a thin mint.
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This reminds me, just a tad, of those cooking competition shows where the judges pronounce something disgusting, vile, and tasteless, when it’s been made by people who have spent their lives crafting culinary masterpieces.

It must be very difficult to have such a discerning palate. 😉 I will have to be satisfied with being part of the unwashed masses. 😛
 
Just don’t buy the cookies. They’re total nutritional garbage, expensive, and they contribute to an objectionable cause (PP).
 
You should also consider whether you want to support an organization with policies that separate children form their parents “for the safety and protection of the girls”. Can you attend meetings as an observer without being a registered leader? Can you tent camp with your daughter? Not in Hawaii or Maryland.
 
b_ulmen said:
You should also consider whether you want to support an organization with policies that separate children form their parents “for the safety and protection of the girls”. Can you attend meetings as an observer without being a registered leader? Can you tent camp with your daughter? Not in Hawaii or Maryland.
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This is a perfectly normal, healthy policy in any organization that works with children. If you get your background check done you can participate in any activity with the troop. Parishes also require background checks for any parents who volunteer to work with kids and for good reason. I wouldn’t want my daughter tent camping with another girls’ parent if he or she couldn’t pass a background check.
 
Allegra said:
This is a perfectly normal, healthy policy in any organization that works with children. If you get your background check done you can participate in any activity with the troop. Parishes also require background checks for any parents who volunteer to work with kids and for good reason. I wouldn’t want my daughter tent camping with another girls’ parent if he or she couldn’t pass a background check.
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No, you completely missed the point. I (nor my wife) could not be in the room during the meetings because I was not a registered adult - not allowed to observe the activity, it was against the rules. On father/daughter or “family” camping trips my daughter could not be in the tent with me “for her safety and protection”; this wasn’t about other peoples kids in the tent, it was my own child. I wasn’t volunteering with the troop, I was a parent and in essence was told that my observing the meetings constituted a threat to my daughter and the other children. Why would any parent allow their child to participate in a program that prohibits parents form observing?
 
Regi said:
You are better off donating directly to the troop - the national council gets MOST of the money from the cookie sales. The troop gets something like 25 cents per box. The national council is affiliated with PP, even if the local councils are not. For that reason, I will not buy the cookies any more. I would also not allow my daughter to participate in the girl scouts, if I still had young enough daughters to do so.
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👍 I got an email from one of the “boycott” groups this weekend, stressing that they supported the GS troops at the local and even at the council level (in most cases). It’s the national and the GS/GC worldwide organization that they have a problem with.

One suggestion was to make a direct donation to the local troop in the form of a Hobby Lobby gift card. 😃 I might just get several of those in small denominations to keep on hand for the inevitable grocery store gauntlet.
 
b_ulmen said:
Why would any parent allow their child to participate in a program that prohibits parents form observing?
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They wouldn’t. They would have the background check done so they could register with the troop. Then they can observe and participate all they want.
 
Corki said:
👍 I got an email from one of the “boycott” groups this weekend, stressing that they supported the GS troops at the local and even at the council level (in most cases). It’s the national and the GS/GC worldwide organization that they have a problem with.

One suggestion was to make a direct donation to the local troop in the form of a Hobby Lobby gift card. 😃 I might just get several of those in small denominations to keep on hand for the inevitable grocery store gauntlet.
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I like this idea! Plus, it’s not a big deal for me…the cookies are pretty awful.
 
Allegra said:
They wouldn’t. They would have the background check done so they could register with the troop. Then they can observe and participate all they want.
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I would think this is a reasonable precaution. It is not just your own girls there, but other parents have their girls and should have a reasonable expectation of safety for them. I think most schools are going to this same policy. A parent can come in, but they have to have a background check.
 
Allegra said:
They wouldn’t. They would have the background check done so they could register with the troop. Then they can observe and participate all they want.
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The parents should not have to become registered adults just to observe the program thier child is in. Thats lunacy. I can think of no other youth program that requires parental registration in order to observe the program. There is no rational reason to have that policy in place.
 
pnewton said:
should have a reasonable expectation of safety for them. .
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More lunacy, your going in assumption is that other parents are a danger to the children; and looked at from the other parents you yourself are assumed to be a danger to the children. Why are you ok with having to prove your innocence?
 
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