Chocolate chips and the Den Mother

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The OP was obviously a dramatization.

I suspect the size of the indiviual girl scout cookie, which tends to be on the small side for packaging reasons, may exclude the inclusion of a good chocolate chip.

I bought a box of each this year and compared. Here they are in order of deliciousness:

  1. Peanut Butter Sandwich
  2. Lemonaides
  3. Thin Mints
  4. Shortbread
  5. Peanut Butter Patties
  6. Caramel Delights

But let’s get to the bottom of this. I distincly remember a delicious lemon creme sandwich cookie, but it was not for sale this year. Likewise, my brother in California says the shortbread cookies are called something else there, and that they also have a white chocolate cranberry cookie there. Also, clearly the “Caramel Delights” are packaged as “Samoas” in some places. I wonder what the reasoning is behind the differences in marketing?

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I don’t know why the local differences. I bought the lemon creme sandwiches (YUM) this year in Northern California, and the PB patties are called Tagalongs here. When I was a kid, they were called Caramel deLites but they’ve been Samoas for 15+ years here. Who knows?

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The cookies that have different names are produced by two different manufacturers. Samoas are baked by Little Brownie Bakers; Caramel Delights by ABC. Same for Do-Si-Dos/Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Trefoils/Shortbreads, and Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties, respectively. Thin Mints are made by both bakers under the same name. Several other varieties are made by one company or the other. Sounds like in your area you get the ABC cookies, which have generally less fancy names than the Little Brownie assortment.

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Ahhh, I see what you tried to do there.