# Girl scout cookie season... ABC vs Brownie Bakery **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696 "2017-02-12T21:36:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NervouslyStares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@NervouslyStares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NervouslyStares)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/1 "2017-02-12T21:36:36Z")
It’s that time of year. Girl scout cookies are being sold around this area. We have Little Brownie Bakery. They have another “bakery” that makes them and the flavor is different, ABC bakery. Depending what part of the states you’re in, you’ll have one or the other. Little Brownie Bakery: Thin Mints Samoas Tagalongs Do-si-dos Trefoils Savannah Smiles S’mores (new to me) - [https://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/media/images/cookies/lbbsmoremain3\_1.jpg.460x259\_q100.jpg](https://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/media/images/cookies/lbbsmoremain3_1.jpg.460x259_q100.jpg) Toffee-tastic (also new to me) ABC bakery: Thanks-A-Lot S’mores (different than ours) [https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/34/f0c4e6827f0e733543fd27860da3f62c/files/smore\_with\_banner.jpg](https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/34/f0c4e6827f0e733543fd27860da3f62c/files/smore_with_banner.jpg) Lemonades Shortbread Thin Mints Peanut Butter Patties Caramel deLites (same as samoas) Peanut Butter Sandwich (same as Do-si-dos) Trios What do you have? I’ve had both and I prefer the Little Brownie version of thin mints and samoas. The thin mints are crispier, the cookie inside the samoa is crispier as well. Haven’t had much else. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/2 "2017-02-12T22:53:53Z")
Let’s go knock on Cafe Society’s door and see if they want any. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/3 "2017-02-12T23:53:44Z")
I haven’t actually noted the difference in Supplier Bakeries, but I’ll check tomorrow. I will be purchasing some S’Mores cookies in front of the grocery store where I work. I like the new flavors. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/4 "2017-02-12T23:54:14Z")
We have the Little Brownie ones. Just scored a couple of boxes of Savannah Smiles. Are Lemonades the same thing? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/5 "2017-02-13T00:08:53Z")
Since Thanks-A-Lot’s are my favorite I guess I’m with ABC. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/6 "2017-02-13T00:19:22Z")
Hmm, I didn’t know that there were _only_ two. I just know that if I buy from girl scouts on my side side of town they awful, if I buy them from the other side of town (where my parents and some cousins live) they’re fine. The funny thing is no one knows what I’m talking about, in fact, I didn’t know this was a thing until a few years ago when I got some Thin Mints in a clear wrapper (instead of foil) and they were terrible. Now I just ask if they come in clear or foil. About these S’mores? Never seen them before, but the ones in the first link look much better. ---
**Author:** ![NervouslyStares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@NervouslyStares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NervouslyStares)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/7 "2017-02-13T01:00:19Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > We have the Little Brownie ones. Just scored a couple of boxes of Savannah Smiles. Are Lemonades the same thing? Lemonades seem to be more of a lemon flavored shortbread with a filling instead of a… butter cookie? I’m not sure what you’d call that. Savannah smiles seem to be like italian wedding cookies but powdered 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NervouslyStares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@NervouslyStares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NervouslyStares)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/8 "2017-02-13T01:01:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Hmm, I didn’t know that there were _only_ two. I just know that if I buy from girl scouts on my side side of town they awful, if I buy them from the other side of town (where my parents and some cousins live) they’re fine. The funny thing is no one knows what I’m talking about, in fact, I didn’t know this was a thing until a few years ago when I got some Thin Mints in a clear wrapper (instead of foil) and they were terrible. Now I just ask if they come in clear or foil. > > About these S’mores? Never seen them before, but the ones in the first link look much better. Haha makes sense… yep, definitely different packaging. I gotta try out the s’mores. And really all the other cookies. Got hooked on thin mints and samoas as a kid and didn’t broaden my horizons much ---
**Author:** ![FallingLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@FallingLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallingLeaves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/9 "2017-02-13T03:06:32Z")
Where I live we have Little Brownie Bakery. But luckily, since I prefer Lemonades and Thanks-a-lots, I live very close to a state line and that state’s girl scouts sell ABC. I’ve got to start looking for selling dates around here. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/10 "2017-02-13T06:13:45Z")
Judging by the links, I purchased ABC s’mores. They sounded so promising. They were pretty terrible. There should have been marshmallow in the style of pinwheel cookies instead of a marshmallow flavored coating. ---
**Author:** ![NervouslyStares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@NervouslyStares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NervouslyStares)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/11 "2017-02-13T11:53:01Z")
> [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](#): > > Judging by the links, I purchased ABC s’mores. They sounded so promising. They were pretty terrible. There should have been marshmallow in the style of pinwheel cookies instead of a marshmallow flavored coating. Our LBB s’mores have the marshmallow inside ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/12 "2017-02-13T16:40:18Z")
Girl Scout parent here. Our council sells ABC cookies. No evidence of Little Brownie Bakery cookies anywhere in the vicinity, so I can’t compare. I have not tried the new S’mores cookies (ABC has the chocolate-covered version) but my daughter claims they are delicious. Certainly a vast improvement over the tasteless Cranberry-Orange cookies they replaced. Lemonades are basically shortbread with one side dipped in a lemony coating. I like them a lot. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/13 "2017-02-13T16:43:40Z")
Just got my ordered cookies today! Definitely LBB. The new Smore’s sandwich cookies are good, but on the sweet side. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/14 "2017-02-14T02:52:43Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Just got my ordered cookies today! Definitely LBB. > > The new Smore’s sandwich cookies are good, but on the sweet side. That’s the main thing I didn’t like about the chocolate covered ones - cloyingly sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/15 "2017-02-14T13:56:46Z")
Rumour has it that too much of this [Girl Scout Cookie](https://www.leafly.com/hybrid/girl-scout-cookie) and you won’t care if ABC or LBB bake your cookies. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/16 "2017-02-14T14:28:39Z")
Around here is LBB and this year’s batch of shortbread (trefoils) taste as yummy as always. I don’t think I was aware that there was more than one supplier. That being said, does anyone else remember the year(s) when the cookies came from a company called Pogens? This would have been late 70s and I’ve no idea if it was just CA or maybe the west coast or what. I remember they came in tubs rather than boxes and they were so freakin’ delicious. Don’t recall what if any price difference there was or why the GSA switched to that company (and more important, why they switched back ☹ ) but damn, I could eat a tub of Pogens chocolate chip right about now. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/17 "2017-02-14T16:39:28Z")
> [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](#): > > That’s the main thing I didn’t like about the chocolate covered ones - cloyingly sweet. I like the Tagalongs (chocolate covered peanut butter) because they aren’t too sweet for me. Otherwise, I’m a Trefoil girl. Samoas and even thin mints get too sweet. ---
**Author:** ![NervouslyStares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c67d28/32.png) [@NervouslyStares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NervouslyStares)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/18 "2017-02-18T19:10:28Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Around here is LBB and this year’s batch of shortbread (trefoils) taste as yummy as always. I don’t think I was aware that there was more than one supplier. That being said, does anyone else remember the year(s) when the cookies came from a company called Pogens? This would have been late 70s and I’ve no idea if it was just CA or maybe the west coast or what. I remember they came in tubs rather than boxes and they were so freakin’ delicious. Don’t recall what if any price difference there was or why the GSA switched to that company (and more important, why they switched back ☹ ) but damn, I could eat a tub of Pogens chocolate chip right about now. I just googled Pogens cookies and only got gingerbread results, similar to moravian cookies ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-scout-cookie-season-abc-vs-brownie-bakery/779696/19 "2017-02-18T20:20:15Z")
[Here is a map](http://mentalfloss.com/article/75103/alert-girl-scout-cookies-differ-depending-where-you-live) showing which regions offer cookies from which bakery. Odd that it is so dispersed. mmm ETA: I see that many of the comments say the map is incorrect for them (although it is correct for me) ETA: [More info, including comparisons of each cookie](http://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/)