# I've eaten two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469 "2006-03-08T01:59:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/21 "2006-03-08T13:07:23Z")
> [@Greebo Ogg](#): > > We don’t have Girls Scout cookies over here in the Netherlands. But I did eat a troopleader once. For free. > 😃 > > What? What flavour? Inquiring minds need to know. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/22 "2006-03-08T13:16:36Z")
> [@Greebo Ogg](#): > > We don’t have Girls Scout cookies over here in the Netherlands. But I did eat a troopleader once. For free. > 😃 > > What? > [@](#): > > What flavour? Inquiring minds need to know. Dutch Chocolate? :::::flees::::::::::::::: ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/23 "2006-03-08T13:23:05Z")
No one’s offered me any GS cookies this year, and the friend who usually supplies me didn’t give me any this year. If it makes you feel any better, while you were eating your cookies I ate two cans of Pringles (sour cream and onion; cheezums); two frozen Charleston Chews and a can of Finetti cream wafer rolls, and drank a three liter bottle of soda. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/24 "2006-03-08T13:25:08Z")
Pringles…ooooooooooh. Salty goodness in a tube. you pervs I had half a box of the thank you-thank you cookies with my coffee this morning. Did I mention that I have to crowbar myself into a formal for St. Paddy’s Day weekend? That in itself will be a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/25 "2006-03-08T13:48:25Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Why can’t the Girl Scouts sell heathly snacks like carrots and celery sticks? 😃 Several months ago that warning came out about how just unhealthy trans fats (I think that’s the name) really are for you. So after hearing the report I get my Idaho off the couch, saunter into the pantry and start reading the labels on darn near every item in there and in the fridge. I check the chips, the crackers, cereals, canned goods, sodas, breads, condiments, etc, etc, etc. I find Trans fats in one dedgum item… the Girl Scout cookies. And as for the quantity, it doesn’t give it in grams or ounces or anything… it just says “Assload.” ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/26 "2006-03-08T14:17:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Because they can’t put in the secret ingredient: crack. Well, that’s my theory, anyways. How else are they so damned addictive? And here I thought Girl Scouts _were_ the secret ingredient. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/27 "2006-03-08T14:19:49Z")
I usually buy them to support the cause, but since I’m laid off this year, no one has approached me. (Usually I just buy from whatever is hanging on the board.) So I will not be tempted this year. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/28 "2006-03-08T15:52:49Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > I still have about 75 boxes sitting in my living room waiting to be delivered… Man…that’s got “home invasion” written all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/29 "2006-03-08T17:52:11Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > My daughter is a Brownie. Pity me. My family of 4 tore through 10 boxes of GS cookies in less than two days. I still have about 75 boxes sitting in my living room waiting to be delivered; I’d better do it soon or my husband is going to crack. I had you beat, this time last week… I’m the troop’s Cookie Mom and had, briefly, 1500 (that’s one thousand, five hundred) boxes of them in my dining room. Dining rooms are where you eat… and there was all this lovely food _right there_… Only the knowledge that I’m also responsible for every penny for every box of cookies the troop handles was able to keep me in line (and capable of fitting through the door). “eaten two boxes of GS cookies”? I call that a good start 🙂 I assure all the customers that we’ve had the calories surgically removed from _our_ supply of cookies 😃 – Mama Zappa, Cookie Mom and Moon Unit’s best customer. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/30 "2006-03-08T18:04:56Z")
> [@bonobo\_jones](#): > > Ohhh…I’m going to buy some tomorrow. _Damn._ > I just found out Tagalogs are not available in every state. Apparently I can’t get them in Michigan, according to my local GSC pusher. I know along the east coast, there are two main providers of GSCookies, Little Brownie Bakers, based in NY, and Interbake Foods, based in VA. My council buys from LBB, who makes favorites such as Somoas and Tagalongs. IF makes similiar products under the names Caramel DeLites and Peanut Butter Patties. I believe some of the cookies, like Thin Mints and Trefoils, are made by both companies. It sounds like your GS Council buys from Interbake Foods, so if you’re craving Tagalongs, I would suggest looking for Peanut Butter Patties. -Mosquito ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/31 "2006-03-08T18:39:31Z")
Careful or you may end up here > **[2006 Weight Loss Club - March](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=360944)** > > In an effort to keep this thread from growing too large, I have started the March version. Happy weight loss dopers! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/32 "2006-03-08T18:44:23Z")
Humph, I didn’t even get offered a chance to buy GS cookies this year. I did however eat a pint of ben and jerry’s (half baked, the chocolate and vanilla mix with brownies and chocolate chip cookie dough…) on sunday evening. Don’t tell anyone from the weight loss club threads. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/33 "2006-03-08T20:43:03Z")
I bought ONE box of Thin Mints this year. It mocked me for several minutes, calling my name, “Lisa, Lisa, LIIIIISAAAA” but ha, ha, ha, I was stronger!! I grabbed them when I went in to play tennis and shoved them at the college student who has front desk duty. He gave me a quizzical look and I screamed , “Just take them while my will is strong!!” I still have a box of Lemon Pastry Cremes on top of the fridge. My daughter bought them. Obviously I didn’t raise her right. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/34 "2006-03-08T21:23:28Z")
I’m going to incur the wrath of everyone in this thread by admitting that I actually THREW OUT several Thin Mints yesterday, owing to my trans fat phobia. Which brings up a minor but not irrelevant rant: the rules say that you can claim 0 grams of trans fats if the serving size has half a gram or less. Okay, powers that be: .5 \<\> 0. Even though the box may say, in big letters, “0 Grams Trans Fats!” it just ain’t true. And it’s especially not true of Girl Scout cookies, where the “serving size” has no relation whatever to how many people will eat at a sitting. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/35 "2006-03-08T22:19:29Z")
_retreats to small corner, gnawing on fingernails_ ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/36 "2006-03-08T22:23:59Z")
This is why I don’t buy girl scout cookies. Thin Mints are like crack, especially if they’ve been in the freezer. Chilled crack. Mmmm. I have come to realize I will never be the person who can take out 2 cookies and seal the package back up for another day. Better not to have an open package in the first place! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/37 "2006-03-08T22:54:03Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > \I have come to realize I will never be the person who can take out 2 cookies and seal the package back up for another day. Better not to have an open package in the first place! I can do that. Oh, for another _day_? Not so much then. You know, those boxes are actually awfully small. And the cookies are pretty little, too. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/38 "2006-03-08T23:21:43Z")
I don’t have any Girl Scout cookies, but I do have 4 boxes of candy bars in my house. My son is selling them for school - $1.00 each. They’re 50-count boxes, so I have 200 candy bars within easy reach. My husband took the one box to work. “America’s Best Chocolate,” the box claims. They’re damn near close. They have a chocolate/caramel thing that’s really good. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469/39 "2006-03-08T23:57:58Z")
For once, I’m the strong one in the group. I bought two boxes of Samoas. I received them in late February. I have… 1.5 boxes of Samoas. My will is strong! I conquer all! What do you mean how much ice cream have I eaten? Irrelevant! Irrelevant! Burn the witch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-eaten-two-boxes-of-girl-scout-cookies-today/347469.md?page=1)