It’s that time of year here. The Girl Scouts are pushing their cookies. Sometime in the next few days I’ll be forced to buy some. It would be politically unwise on the job to refuse them and there a lot of Scouts to avoid. I’m doomed to a boxor ten.
Problem is, I don’t like these cookies. If any of you UK Dopers would like to do me a favor and take them off my hands. Just tell me the flavor(s) you like then I’ll give them to you. No strings, no questions asked except for how to get them to you from Cambridgeshire.
OH MY GOD I was just Googling frantically trying to figure out how to get my hands on a few. Cases. Boxes. Whatever.
Put me down for two boxes each of Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos? That should do me and me office for a good while. GOD BLESS YOU, KIND SIR.
I understand the individual words in that sentence, but I do not understand the sentence you have made of them.
Just curious: are you in the UK? if so, how are they selling US cookies there? (and if you’re in the US, why ship to the UK?).
Also you could ask the dealers if their daughters’ troop is taking donations of cookies for any charity. If so, you can buy the boxes, and they’ll deliver them to whatever recipient group they’ve chosen. Our troop donates boxes to an Army hospital (we use cash donations to purchase those, as well as many people say “buy 3 boxes and send 'em to the hospital”).
I think we took about 15 cases (that’s 180 boxes) up there last year.
That would let you play the game, and also not have to get rid of cookies you don’t want.
This is the way to go. My daughter sells GS cookies, and my 82-year old mother just gives us a check for the amt she'd want in cookies, but we don't send them, because she neither wants them nor needs them, but will support her granddaughter. Her troop has also taken donations, and sent the cookies to troops in Iraq.
So you can politely decline, but offer to donate the money to the troop, and ask them to give the boxes you otherwise would have to a charity as has been suggested.
No problemo** Tracy** but those Scouts aren’t going to stop at just 8 boxes. I can just tell. Keep the requests coming!
Mama and Prelude, I’m on a military base in England along with what are what appear to be hundreds of Girls Scouts. I’m doing my small part for international peace by offering some American biscuits to our English hosts. I’m hoping this makes up for me laughing at the spotted dick and faggots every time I’m at Tesco. [joking!]
Wow. I knew we were deploying pretty much all we’ve got, but that’s new on me. I guess the Cub Scouts are patrolling the Korean border zone or something.
Today I put the cookies in the mail to all those who asked (except Tracy who hasn’t sent an address yet). They’re still selling the cookies–don’t be shy about asking. I’ll even entertain sending to continental Europe.
Well, like many American words it is universally understood in Britain. But here it means a particular kind of (what we would call a) biscuit - a thicker, rough-textured biscuit, any type of biscuit that resembles a chocolate chip cookie. Those only appeared here in the seventies, I think, and have never been called “chocolate chip biscuits”.
We wouldn’t call a Rich Tea biscuit or even a Hob Nob a “cookie”, even though the latter is quite cookie-ish by our definition.
Apparently what we call “drop cookies”, those made by dropping a spoonful of dough onto the baking sheet, and letting it spread out on its own in the oven. As opposed to those made with rolled dough and cutters.
