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.
OMG!!! Lemon Pastry Cremes. I miss those cookies…they were so darn goooooooooooooood.
Dagnab it…
the post above from thinksnow is actually mine. Need to start checking who’s logged in on the computer before we post.
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!
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 are almost as good.
Almost. 
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Haha! Thanks for clarifying that, Gazelle.
But you’re right. Anyone who still has last year’s cookies in their house is insane.
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.
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.
Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies are an acceptable substitute for those lean times of the year when there are no Thin Mints to be found.
What’s a Fastnacht?