They make the perfect reward after working in the yard on a hot summer’s day. But I only get two (and only then if I was indeed working up to speed).
Funny, I’ve never done this with any other cookie, nor any candy bar. Only Thin Mints.
My problem with Thin Mints is the single-serving packaging.
Girl Scout cookies are primarily for fund raising.
It’s a bonus that they’re also a very good cookie.
We sold chocolate almond bars for the school band and orchestra’s fund raising. This was in junior high. I don’t remember the high school asking students to fund raise.
I don’t remember the brand of candy. It was a big chocolate bar and sold well.
Boy Scouts hereabouts come around selling popcorn, which has to earn them a steady supply of people pointing out that, c’mon, you know what you’re up against, right?
While it’s apples and oranges (cookies and popcorn?), popcorn sales for the Scouts* are not dissimilar to cookie sales for the Girl Scouts: it’s their premier fundraising program, and they have specific licensing arrangements with several popcorn companies to manufacture products for the Scouts to sell.
*- No longer technically named “Boy Scouts,” as they started to allow girls to join a few years back, and changed the parent organization’s name from “Boy Scouts of America” to “Scouting America” last year.
World’s Finest, perhaps? And probably had a coupon on the label for a local pizza joint, too.
Perhaps; aceplace probably sold those candy bars 50-ish years ago.
When I was a Scout (back in the early 1970s) the individual troops decided for themselves what to sell (as least as far as I remember), so I sold some oddball selections (lightbulbs, Coca-Cola serving trays, “Tom Wat” toolkits (Tom-Wat kits: a nightmare from the past -- Speet's Journal -- Fur Affinity [dot] net), and I think, chocolate bars.
Me too, but the last time I bought one was probably in the last ten years. And they got smaller!
I don’t recall that the Brownie Troop I was a part of in the '70s ever sold anything, although I do remember that, being a part of the Girl Scouts, they had the same motto.
I believe that that’s still the case; I know that our doormat on our front porch was sold to us by a Boy Scout (one of my wife’s students, IIRC). Even though the popcorn is a big one (and one that the Scouts are known for), it looks like individual troops and councils do many others, as well.
Ah. Thanks. The local scouts here are all in on the popcorn (I get popcorn notification from the brother of the Girl Scout who emails me in cookie season)
At most cinema snack bars around here you can choose Betwen room temp and frozen Junior Mints. When I was a kid, Ding Dongs and Snickers bars were kept in the freezer.
World’s Finest Chocolate does sell their product primarily (entirely?) through groups doing fundraisers. The name is about as accurate as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, though. Around here, most chocolate-bar fundraising is from Malley’s, a local confectioner that’s much better.
Trail’s End popcorn is quite good, though. But even when Boy Scouts was called Boy Scouts, it was never actually explicitly branded as a Boy Scout product. The packaging had pictures of kids in almost-Scouts uniforms, but with none of the distinguishing badges or emblems.
Extremely well stated
Makes sense. Not technically branded for the Boy Scouts, but clearly made and packaged for them to sell.
Girl Scout Cookies are explicitly Girl Scout, though.
That problem applies to nearly all snack foods and dessert items though.
Even those Family Sized bags of chips.
Certainly the coolest thing I’ve read today. I never thought about it that way.