# Best Girl Scouts cookie sales pitch I've ever heard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106 "2003-01-26T23:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/21 "2003-01-27T17:31:22Z")
Hey, maybe we should start an exchange program - we list what kind of cookies we get (since they’re based on region), and buy boxes of those to trade for cookies we can’t get. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/22 "2003-01-27T18:59:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by crinklebat \* > \*\*There are indeed different cookies in different regions. They’re actually made by different bakers, too. When I was a Brownie we sold a whole lot of cookies, none of which I can remember the names of, except “Lemon Pastry Cremes,” . \*\* OMG!!! Lemon Pastry Cremes. I miss those cookies…they were so darn goooooooooooooood.😃 ---
**Author:** ![laserkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@laserkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laserkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/23 "2003-01-27T19:03:14Z")
Dagnab it… the post above from thinksnow is actually mine. Need to start checking who’s logged in on the computer before we post. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/24 "2003-01-27T19:23:47Z")
Didn’t they used to have a peanut buttery one called Savannahs? Are they produced with a different name now? I asked the kid and she had no idea what I was talking about. And, **Guin,** thank you for my laugh of the day…Girl Scout Cookies–new and improved, now with more crack! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/25 "2003-01-27T19:32:29Z")
Mmmmm…love me some samoas! For those of you with similar tastes, to get me through the non-girl-scout-cookie-selling portion of the year, I’ve found that the Little Debbie [German Chocolate Cookie Rings](http://www.littledebbie.com/ProductFrame/LD_CookieRings.html) are almost as good. Almost. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/26 "2003-01-27T19:40:24Z")
I have never heard them called “Samoas” in my area. I think they call them “Carmel delights.” I think there was backlash from the local Samoans. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/27 "2003-01-27T20:39:08Z")
Round these parts they were called Samoas when they first appeared, then they calel dthem Caramel Delights, then they called them Samoas again, then they called the Caramel Delights, then… Good thing they always put pictures on the order form! **vivalostwages** : the only Peanut Butter ones I recall are the Do-Si-Dos (oatmeal & peanut butter sandwich cookies) and Tag-A-Longs, the shortbread(?) cookie topped with peanut butter & dipped in chocolate). But Savannahs sounds so familiar… ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/28 "2003-01-27T20:47:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ruby \* > \*\*Oh how I hate to see this time of year… > > \ I wonder how many Weight Watchers “points” are in a box of the peanut butter sandwich cookies. I simply cannot (will not) control myself. It’s a half a box at a sitting minimum. I guess I had just better not answer the door or go to the grocery for the next several weeks. \ \*\* 3 of them are 4.5 points (180 cal, 8 g fat, 1 g fiber) so if 10 are in a sleeve (?) that’s 15 points. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![elfoldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@elfoldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfoldo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/29 "2003-01-27T20:48:03Z")
If everybody loves the cookies so much, why aren’t they sold year-round? Just get into the supermarket distribution channel. Kind of like Newman’s salad dressings. I think it’s wonderful that Girl Scouts actually sell a product that people want. I believe many people buy the cookies just for the cookies and not to make a charitable donation. Contrast that with Boy Scouts who sell things like lightbulbs and popcorn. Many times I buy something because I don’t want the boy to feel bad so I make a donation for something I wouldn’t normally have bought. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/30 "2003-01-27T20:57:20Z")
**Tagalongs** are my faves. Anything with peanut butter and chocolate is heaven to me. If I buy them (haven’t in a couple years) they’re gone within three days. **Thin Mints** are my husband’s faves. He puts them in the freezer and takes a whole effin’ year to eat them. El Hubbo is Satan. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/31 "2003-01-27T20:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Motorgirl \* > > **vivalostwages** : the only Peanut Butter ones I recall are the Do-Si-Dos (oatmeal & peanut butter sandwich cookies) and Tag-A-Longs, the shortbread(?) cookie topped with peanut butter & dipped in chocolate). But Savannahs sounds so familiar… \*\* Savannah was the name of the cookie that most resembles the current Do-Si-Dos (peanut butter sandwich) when I was a Girl Scout in the late 70s. However, the Do-Si-Dos, as you mentioned, have an oatmeal cookie part, where the Savannahs had something more generic. They’re not quite the same, but close. I remember the Savannahs as being better than today’s Do-Si-Dos (which are still good), but that could just be me clinging to the ways of my youth. 😉 I think the demise of the Savannahs came about with the change of bakeries. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/32 "2003-01-27T21:01:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfoldo \* > \*\*If everybody loves the cookies so much, why aren’t they sold year-round? \*\* From the responses on this thread, it’s probably best for the health of the nation that they aren’t 😛 But hey, a lot of things aren’t sold year-round. You can’t get Marshmellow Peeps (at least in most jurisdictions) outside of Eastertime. In Pennsylvania, you don’t get Fastnachts outside of the Fat Tuesday season. You don’t get candy canes year-round. The Girl Scouts are merely exploiting (1) the largely holiday-candy-less period between Christmas and Easter (not counting Valentine’s Day, though us bitter singles don’t observe that day) and (2) the relentless cabin fever of the wintertime (see how a lot of the people who’ve responded to this thread are from cold climes?) and the concurrent desire to eat lots of cookies. Those Girl Scouts may look innocent, but they are calculating. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/33 "2003-01-27T21:08:10Z")
When I sold Girl Scout cookies (mind you, this was so long ago they cost 50 cents a box!!), the Do-Si-Dos were called Peanut Butter Round-Ups. Same cookie all these years later. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/34 "2003-01-27T21:12:21Z")
I should clarify. El Hubbo is not the former poster **Satan** - I would have bolded in the original, had that been the case - but the actually Lucifer, the fallen angel. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/35 "2003-01-27T21:25:13Z")
This was my eldest’s first year selling Girl Scout cookies. We turned the pre-order forms in last weekend. Her mother and I are pretty good salespeople 😛 120 boxes at $3 a pop. The troop is picking them up Valentine’s weekend then we’ll have booth sales a week or so later for any that people bail on their pre-orders or to get some more sales under our belts. We were lucky that my workplace dealer’s kids quit scouts this year and he wasn’t competition, in fact he placed a nice fat order himself because his daughter wasn’t able to get him supplied anymore. **Moxmaiden** is begging me to buy a deep freeze so she can fill it with thin mints. She sat down over the weekend reading the ads from the local home appliance/electronics shops reading out the various prices and cubic footage ratings of the deep freezes and trying to figure out how many boxes each model could hold. Now that’s just nuts! I don’t like _any_ of them. I guess I’m just some kind of freak. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/36 "2003-01-27T21:29:01Z")
Haha! Thanks for clarifying that, **Gazelle**. But you’re right. Anyone who still has _last year’s_ cookies in their house is insane. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/37 "2003-01-27T21:41:14Z")
Um, about those samoas…doesn’t it seem like they up the price a quarter each year and find some intesting way got give you one fewer cookie? /me thinks this is just a slightly cleaner way to make a profit off child labor. Tennis shoes in a sweatshop? Nah, sugar cookies and a uniform. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/38 "2003-01-27T21:46:36Z")
Yeah, I had the satisfaction of being the office source for cookies this year. We too have had to scramble every year to find a supplier since my boss’ daughters got too old for Girl Scouts. But then my neighbor emailed me, all apologetic about bugging me, but letting me know her daughter is selling. Ha, said I, like you had to apologize. I told her I’d get back to her. And I did, with a 48-box order from me, my office, a few local pals… They about croaked with delight and her daughter got a special badge for selling at that level. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/39 "2003-01-27T21:51:06Z")
Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies are an acceptable substitute for those lean times of the year when there are no Thin Mints to be found. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106/40 "2003-01-27T22:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > **In Pennsylvania, you don’t get Fastnachts outside of the Fat Tuesday season.** What’s a Fastnacht? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-girl-scouts-cookie-sales-pitch-ive-ever-heard/151106.md?page=3)