I liked the peanut butter cookies they had, but that is about it.

Thin Mints...mmmm

I am quite unhappy, but that has nothing to do with cookies.

So I guess it won't get Bucky's Urine Stain of Approval?

Girl Scout cookies are an awful product. The whole cookie deal seems like it teaches the wrong stuff.
http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/nutrition_info_2008_2009.asp

If you read the ingredients you will see that one says "Excess consumption may cause a laxative effect." Super.

Come on Owlie, cheer up and stop picking on Bucky. Other people have feelings too.

It's Friday the Thirteenth. You need to hit some Happy Hours and dazzle/infuriate people with your rapier wit. I'm sure you chew on a bad luck day like this and spit out fun. Hey, not on me. I'll buy you your first drink. Let's see I would guess some obscure cocktail like oh hell I don't know anything obscure. Maybe you should stay away from tequila and whiskey though, they have a terrible wifi signal in central booking.

As much fun as it is to watch you disintegrate for our pleasure, maybe you should just go have some normal people fun. Buy drinks for pretty girls and slap your buddies on the back while watching "the game".. Or sit in a dark corner sipping chianti and muttering in Italian. Whatever works for you.

I like the peanut butter cookies too!

Nice to see you LG. Have you and the other Girls been having pillow fights on other blogs?

I'm usually deconstructing myself, not disintegrating. That happens off screen. It's the mosquito that makes no sound that you need to worry about. Rarely touch tequila, but do love John Barleycorn and all things Remy and Solera (but I think you knew that? ;) I'm denying myself anything enjoyable lately so no alcohol or back slapping tonight. It's lamb in ginger sauce and reruns of House tonight.

I am a peanut butter fan too. Edy's makes Girl Scout Cookie ice cream.

I don't think watching House is a good way to get yourself into a good mood. He always seems quite miserable. Check out this week's 30 Rock, It's really silly and funny, especially the "Fun Cooker".

No girl scout has knocked on our door to sell cookies in years! Nor a cub scout selling popcorn. And there are 300 homes in our subdivision, so it's not like a limited market.

And, forgive me, setting up a table near the grocery store and trying to sell me what your mother already ordered is not my idea of character building through fund raising.

(Boy, even a great dinner at Johnny V's and there is still some grouch in me tonight. And I'm nowhere near OMG and whatever's in the water he's drinking.)

Regardless of whether a girl scout cookie is quality product, at least it is product. I think the exchange of goods and services is a good lesson for the girls. Much better than those other kid fundraisers whereby some 13 year old walks around a busy intersection with a bucket asking you to help her field hockey team go to France.

The incredibly shrinking ice cream packages have previously been dissed by the Sandbox, so I don't know why we should be surprised that the Girl Scouts have resorted to the same gimmick with their cookies.

One word: Samoas.

I've never had a particular soft spot for Girl Scout cookies to begin with but I do know that there are incredible shrinking portion sizes popping up everywhere. Even the tub-o margerine size is smaller than it was before. Not much bang for you buck these days unless you bulk shop in some warehouse store (which means you have a huge pantry, an extra freezer and all kinds of storage devices!)

When I started selling GS cookies, the boxes were twice the size they are now and cost $0.60. They tasted better then, but they still were pretty bad. I hated selling them because I thought they were expensive for what you got.

I didn't mind selling the calendars as much. Car washes were just fine.

I guess this was all an early sign that I was going to fail at Capitalism.

I have never been a fan of Girl Scout cookie. Not back in the day, when I had to go door-to-door, seeling the things nor later, when my daughter sold them. I am, however, a fan of encouraging girls - other people's daughters and granddaughters - in their endeavors.

Girls are expressly prohibited from going door-to-door selling. Their parents are pretty much told to hit up the co-wrokers.

That said, there is a belief that the Girl Scouts "donate" cookies to be given to troops passing through BWI. This past fall, when I signed the order sheet next to the company microwave, I found the box marked, "Would you like to donate these to US Troops?" I'm guessing the Girl Scouts are making as much profit as ever and those cookies were donated by parental office-mates.

You reduce the quantity to keep the price down, people complain. You raise the price to keep the quantity the same, people complain (usually the same people). And we won't go into changing the recipe so they don't taste as good as they used to. Its like the First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.

The Girl Scout cookie amount-to-price ratio is definitely wider and that's pretty irritating. But, like every non-profit, they're just trying to make up for the money they're losing. I think the more pressing concern is how terrible many of the cookies are (especially Samoas) now that the trans fat is gone :(

BTW, I'm pretty sure the Girl Scouts (and other kiddies) are encouraged to not sell door-to-door anymore out of safety concerns.

I'm pretty sure the Girl Scouts (and other kiddies) are encouraged to not sell door-to-door anymore out of safety concerns.

Whatever happened to parental supervision? When I went door to door selling GS cookies, my mother was standing on the sidewalk, watching. If the house was owned by people we didn't know, she was 2/3s of the way up the driveway.

Recently wine maven Karen Mcneal suggested (on her page-a-day calendar) that Samoas are terrific paired with an aged Tawny Port. Very amusing!

Dottie -- I like a tawny Samoan every now and then myself.

I'll bet you do Aural Eel, I'll bet you do.

Based on the Girl Scout web site, 12 - 17% of the purchase price of the cookies goes to the individual troop. So, less than $.50 goes to the troop. They say that the girls decide how to spend that money - never happened when I and my daughter were involved in GS. Better to make a cash donation to GS and purchase good cookies!