As a former Girl Scout, I totally sympathize with these girls and always help them out.
But, I really do not need to eat a box of cookies.
So’s, I just give the kids $10 and leave with nothing.
It totally mystifies the girls, but the mom’s always understand.
It’s a kind of hole-less donut beloved of the German-American community of southern Pennsylvania. It’s traditionally eaten on Fat Tuesday, the last day before the Lenten fast. I know that the Lenten fast is a Catholic tradition, but the Protestant Germans in southern PA also eat it out of habit. I could certainly eat them all year round.
The best place I know to get Fastnachts is Maple Donuts (a chain based around York, PA), but the local Dunkin’ Donuts will also sell them.
I, too, have issues with the parents of Brownies showing up, sans Brownie, to sell the cookies at work…my mother never did that. I had to go door to door, but since I wasn’t the only Brownie in my neighborhood, I got a lot of “I’m so sorry, I’ve already purchased my Girl Scout cookies this year.”
But I have no moral stamina, and I live in an apartment, so the moment anyone shows up at work with that cookie order form, I’m so there. sigh Usually I end up buying the bulk of my cookies from the little Girl Scouts in front of the local grocery store who already have the cookies. I admire their tenacity.
I like the Thin Mints, the peanut-butter/chocolate ones (I can never remember the names of the cookies I like!) and the coconut/chocolate ones. Does anyone know what those are called? Somoas? Or is that another variety?
And personally, I think the fact that they are only sold once a year is genius; if they were readily available at all times, no one would order the many boxes they end up ordering. They could be restrained, knowing that another box is available whenever they want it.
I think when I was a Brownie the cookies were $1.50 a box. I’m only 24; they’ve tripled in price since then. And I don’t care; I still order my usual five boxes. 
What are those coconut ones, they’re kind of chewy in the middle but distinctly coconutty on the outside? I need to know so I can get a box from somebody.
-foxy
Ooooh, this year my little green suited dealer is offering a new variety - don’t know the name, but it’s a shortbread sandwich cookie with chocolate cream in the center. mmmmmmm can’t wait
The peanutbutter chocolate ones are Tagalongs. My favorite.
The coconutty/caramel ones are Samoas. 
Samoas hereabouts are called Caramel Delights. We also have Peanut Butter Sandwiches and Peanut Butter Patties (one of those is Tagalongs, the other is Do-Si-Dos, but I can never remember which was which). Thin Mints, I think, are always Thin Mints. Lemon Pastry Cremes, check. Animal Treasures (shortbread squares with chocolate underneath) check. Friendship Circles (vanilla sandwiches with chocolate filling - sorta like a negative of an Oreo) check. Trefoils, a/k/a Golden Trefoils, a/k/a Girl Scout Shortbreads.
My most recent Girl Scout cookie discovery is that if you dip your Trefoils into Yoplait Custard style yogurt, particularly the Key Lime flavor, it’s almost as good as having pie.
We don’t have Girl Scouts around here. They’re all Wiccan.
Better cookies, too.
What does being Wiccan have to do with not being a girl Scout?
Then again I was a girl scout before I realised I was Wiccan so who knows?
IIRC they didn’t do as much God stuff as boy scouts do?
And when did Wiccans start having cookie drives?
Maybe it’s the cold medicine but I am way confused.
The last batch of cookies I got from girl scouts had to be shipped from North Carolina.
My niece sells but for some reason my sister in law never calls us but calls my mother in law to order and we (MIL and my family) live in the same house!
So, I order from my friends daughter in NC and this year from another friends daughter here in my home town since it was her first year out.
Sorry for the confusion, I was just being silly.
But, we really don’t have many scouts here. And I do run into alot of Wiccans. FTR, I don’t have a problem with either scenario.
(People just love to talk to me. Apparantly, I’m a great conversationalist. Even if I have to make up words.)
How can I find Girl Scouts? I need me some of those peanut butter cookies, but I don’t know any scouts. And no, they never find me.
actually, you can get peeps year round (or at least here in the midwestern states there seems to be a never ending supply of the lil critters all year long). They do tend to rotate thru the different versions over the course of the year so that the seasonally appropriate peeps are available at the right times but the classic easter peeps can often be found on the shelves just about any time (possibly hiding behind the haloween or x-mas peeps, but they are indeed out there!).
and on the subject of girl scout cookies i will admit to being one of those who is addicted to thin mints, i recently ordered 6 boxes from one of my co-workers (bosses have an extremely unfair degree of leverage with regards to selling this stuff for their kids i say) and have actually been wondering if i shouldn’t have ordered a few more…
wolf189 (peeps AND thin mints fanatic)
“Best Girl Scouts cookie sales pitch I’ve ever heard”
My bosses granddaughter called from Fort Bragg to sell them to us, and we live in Idaho. She was also asking for people to buy cookies to send to the troops. Her father is in Afghanistan. So I bought 5 boxes to send to the troops and 10 for us.
Hey I’m patriotic but the thin mints are mine, all mine.
What would happen if you sandwiched a Peep between two Thin Mints and then stuck it in the microwave for 15 to 30 seconds?
Peep S’Mores!
Note: I paid for my three boxes today and they were three bucks apiece. Kid’s mom says the boxes are getting smaller, though. Are they?
They need a sales pitch?!?
All I have to do is see those sweet, sweet green boxes of mints, then I leave with 5 boxes
And peep s’mores has to be the most ingenious thing I’ve ever seen. Hmm, but for the proper overall consistency should probably try preheating the cookies so the chocolate gets melting.
Ooo, or cut a thin-mint in half, flip it around (cookie on outside, chocolate in middle) add peep!
I’m going into sugar shock just thinking about it.
Back to the original post…
I just saw the most hilarious billboard this morning on my way to work.
Two Girl Scouts holding the boxes of cookies with giant print “Resistance is Futile!”
I’ll buy two boxes this year (I usually buy none) based on that billboard alone!
Is that the cookies or the kids?
Oh sure, it’s GSC time, but my weakness is not here yet. Sure, I’m in line for 9 boxes (3 from each from neice, neighbor, and boss’s daughter) I die and go to heaven when the ** THIN MINT ICE CREAM** comes out. Dear gawd, manna in Ice cream form. But wait! It get’s BETTER! My wife and I sucked down the thin mint tub, so I went to the store for more. IT WAS GONE! It’s a limited edition thing. As I stood, in the freezer section, sobbing, what did I see? SAMOA ICE CREAM. Just the thought of it is Pavlonian.