Comments on: Thin Mint Haters: Rise against your cookie oppressors

By: saraeanderson

saraeanderson — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:14:00 +0000

In some Rosauers, I’ve seen something like samoas under the Western Family name.

By: Evan G.

Evan G. — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Agreed.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:13:00 +0000

I’m talking about girl scout cookies specifically. Americans seem to have a rather special relationship with those, which we don’t get here.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Excellent recipe. And it shows WHY Samoas are the best: shortbread cookie topped by caramel and toasted coconut, drizzled with chocolate….what’s not to love?

And now I’m thinking that the recipe would be that much easier and quicker to make if one didn’t bother with the rings but instead made them as regular round cookies.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:48:00 +0000

If that is still true, you have done the world a great service by your revelation here.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:56:00 +0000

Fuck all that. Are you telling me that in Canada you don’t haave choice between HobNobs and other “digestive biscuits,”versus the whole Oreo/Nilla Wafer continuum? I’ve been to Canada and I’ve seen the whole spectrum of post-colonial mass-produced baked treats.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:44:00 +0000

I’m a notorious alcoholic. One time, I was sitting at the bar, when the bartender offered me a “free drink.” It was a Fuzzy Navel, except that he’d accidentally substituted Creme de Menthe for Amaretto.

Physical addiction has it’s limits.

Re. GS Cookies: I’m a sucker for Pb&C, so all things considered, I’ll take a Tagalong. But, AFAIK, Krogers still sells bulk melting chocolate and natural peanut butter, so there are for more disgusting ways to be self-indulgent.

By: laurasbadideas

laurasbadideas — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:35:00 +0000

Girls in my neighborhood go door-to-door — sometimes with a parent who stays on the sidewalk while the girl(s) go up to the house, sometimes in pairs with no adults, and occasionally even alone.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:22:00 +0000

Do-si-Dos rock.

I was on jury duty once with someone who made Thin Mint clones out of Ritz crackers. Looked weird, tasted the same. I haven’t been able to take them seriously since.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:14:00 +0000

I completely understand having a preference but I never understood the hate for the ones you don’t like. I can eat and enjoy any style girl scout cookie, but of course I do have a definite preference.

Samoas are king, definitely. Next is Tagalongs. Probably thin mints next. They’re definitely good, but pretty boring compared to Samoas and Tagalongs. From there, I like the recently introduced lemon-flavored ones which the internet says are called Lemonades. The rest I would eat but wouldn’t buy, including the ultra-boring Trefoil/Shortbread ones.

I don’t think I’ve ever purchased girl scout cookies myself, actually, but an ex-girlfriend I was with for many years had girl scouts running deep in the family and I got more than my fill each year. I was the only person who liked Samoas – their whole family doesn’t like coconut for some reason – so they got some for me each time (they must have bought a hundred boxes or so each year).

If I buy things like cookies for myself I get fat, fast. However at this point I haven’t had them in a few years so I might have to pick some up next time I see them.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:04:00 +0000

I don’t get the chocolate & orange thing. It’s not inedibly bad to me but it isn’t particularly pleasant. Mint & chocolate definitely works.

By: a1penguin

a1penguin — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:21:00 +0000

I have lived in Massachusetts for a long time and have been eating Caramel Delights. Last year, I bought some Samoas from a young cousin in VA thinking they were the same cookie. Turns out that the Samoas are a far superior cookie to the Caramel Delights we get here. Better chocolate, better caramel, better cookie base. My wife says the Trefoils from VA are better than the Shortbreads we get here as well. Still, I will buy whichever ones are available because I like supporting an open minded organization like the Girl Scouts.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:16:00 +0000

You should forward your story to the Free Range Kids blog.

By: siloxane

siloxane — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:11:00 +0000

I've always heard that it was the sodium lauryl sulfate in toothpaste that was responsible for screwing up your taste buds, not the minty fresh flavoring.

By: Ms. Anne Thrope

Ms. Anne Thrope — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:36:00 +0000

http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Thin-Mint-Cookies/

By: Ms. Anne Thrope

Ms. Anne Thrope — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:34:00 +0000

http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Samoas-Recipe/?ALLSTEPS Kitchen chemistry for Maggie:
Homemade Samoas Recipe

By: Jesseham

Jesseham — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:13:00 +0000

They have an exit strategy from palm oil, but somehow it’s going to take them until 2015. http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookie_faqs.asp#tropical_oils
Scratch that – It seems they have a strategy to redefine “sustainable” by 2015.

By: Smedette

Smedette — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Team Samoas!

By: waetherman

waetherman — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:50:00 +0000

And remember when Barbara Bush said of the people eating Fig Newtons in the Superdome “so many of them were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them”?

Every administration has their cookie kerfuffle I suppose. Which makes me wonder; why isn’t there a cookie called a Kerfuffle. I bet it would be delicious.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Mint is to toothpaste as cherry is to cough syrup. Chocolate-orange is a better combination.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:12:00 +0000

They usually do it at the supermarket here, but it’s always children running the sale. When I worked at the hospital, on the other hand, it was a non-stop barrage of co-workers selling candy bars and shit for their children’s schools.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Thin Mints can kiss my shiny metal ass.

By: Alex Kim

Alex Kim — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:52:00 +0000

I want to support such a fine and inclusive organization, but their cookies’ use of palm oil is so unnecessary and environmentally destructive. And people who clear forests for palm cultivation have done some pretty cruel things to orangutans while removing them from the area.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:47:00 +0000

People who boo Thin Mints should be banished to North Korea.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:41:00 +0000

The only valid criteria for determining a good cookie is taste.

That might be true if HFCS and fat weren’t effectively addictive drugs.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:41:00 +0000

I get a bit jealous whenever I hear Americans passionately discuss girl scout cookies… Here in Canada, it’s either chemical-tasting chocolate-chocolate cream or cheap, powdery vanilla-vanilla cream.

By: franko

franko — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:36:00 +0000

“…are they made with REAL girl scouts?”
#ObligatoryReference

By: dalgoda7

dalgoda7 — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Ohhhhh yeah. This was damned good. Lucky for me the wife *hates* coconut, so I had this one all to myself.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:22:00 +0000

I’d love to smoke a joint with him.
With that corporate raider, not so much.

By: CLamb

CLamb — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:05:00 +0000

I wonder which is the most popular Girl Scout cookie in Samoa?