# Wal-Mart Targets the Girl Scouts! (mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143 "2010-02-23T17:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/21 "2010-02-23T18:49:31Z")
I don’t even think Walmart is the first to do this. I have been able to buy something call Winter Mints at Dollar General and Big Lots for years that is essentially Thin Mints. The center cookie isn’t dark, but the taste is identical ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/22 "2010-02-23T18:55:42Z")
I was going to say, I have a box of Dollar General “Mint Thin Cookies” right here. They’re delicious. I’ve still purchased three or four boxes of cookies from actual live Girl Scouts this season, but I see it more as a charitable donation to the Scouts. When I just want the cookies, I go to Dollar General. They have other Girl Scout cookie types too; but the thin mints are my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/23 "2010-02-23T18:57:03Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > They’re craptastic cookies anyways and I’m sure the Walmart cookies will have to be made worse to taste like them. Get over it. It’s not like those flavors haven’t been made by others as long as cookies have been mass produced. Either people feel sorry for your kid and pity buy cookies, or you push them at everybody at work to sell these boxes of culinary shit. Ha! I want to call you an asshole for this, except you’re so… right. The damn things taste like ass, and are essentially pity cookies. No one’s craving the taste of crumbling, nasty, minty cookies, and are just buying them because they either want to support the Scouts, or because you’re badgering everyone about it at work. Wal-Mart is teh evil, but this is not going to stop people from buying the food abomination that is Girl Scout cookies. When people buy them, it’s not about the cookies. It was never about the cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/24 "2010-02-23T18:58:32Z")
Well, they were never made with real girl scouts anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/25 "2010-02-23T19:03:01Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > Well, they were never made with real girl scouts anyway. [Some things are.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/girlscouts.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/26 "2010-02-23T19:16:38Z")
Threads like this make me glad that Cesario is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/27 "2010-02-23T19:30:04Z")
It sucks that they wouldn’t let the Op and her daughter(s?) set up a stand to sell cookies. A couple of times a month I’ll see some people out in front of Wal-Mart giving away puppies so people can make pies out of them so I think it is only fair that they should allow the Scouts to sell their cookies. Every year the Girl Scout cookies get smaller and more expensive. I do like the cookies but if I can get the same thing for cheaper, and hopefully made by children in china because they need jobs too, then that is good for me and since I am America we all win. Seriously though these days I only buy Girl Scout cookies so they’ll send them off to the troops becuase I like to torture people. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/28 "2010-02-23T19:32:01Z")
I think the outrage comes from the name WalMart gave to the entire line of cookies, “F\*%# the Girl Scouts”, which I dunno, seems pretty innocuous to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/29 "2010-02-23T19:37:04Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Yaknow, Keebler (I think it was) made some peanut-butter-chocolate and caramel-coconut-chocolate cookies that were preeeeeeeetty much Tagalongs and Samoas. I see the peanut butter ones on their site but not the caramel ones. I know I’ve had them in the last year, and I distinctly remember thinking how much they tasted like Girl Scout cookies. Keebler’s Grasshopper cookies are damned near - last I tasted, anyway - clones of the Thin Mints, as well. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/30 "2010-02-23T19:46:29Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > They’re craptastic cookies anyways and I’m sure the Walmart cookies will have to be made worse to taste like them. Get over it. It’s not like those flavors haven’t been made by others as long as cookies have been mass produced. Either people feel sorry for your kid and pity buy cookies, or you push them at everybody at work to sell these boxes of culinary shit. Are you kidding? Thin Mints are like crack. I’d beat up a Girl Scout for a box of those things. As we speak, I am devising a method for mainlining them. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/31 "2010-02-23T19:49:07Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Well, this explains why they wouldn’t let us set up any booths outside their store this year :mad:. Bwuh? Is this a regional thing, maybe? The GS were outside of our local Wal-Mart just yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/32 "2010-02-23T19:56:05Z")
This is good news. Now when I’m not too tired of avoiding buying these inedible overpriced cookies from every parent I work with, I can now go to Wal-Mart to avoid buying them too. My work effort on this front will be halved! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/33 "2010-02-23T20:00:56Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > This is good news. Now when I’m not too tired of avoiding buying these inedible overpriced cookies from every parent I work with, I can now go to Wal-Mart to avoid buying them too. My work effort on this front will be halved! Looks to me l ike your workload has just DOUBLED! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/34 "2010-02-23T20:07:20Z")
Drat. Foiled again. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/35 "2010-02-23T20:13:12Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Bwuh? Is this a regional thing, maybe? The GS were outside of our local Wal-Mart just yesterday. I prefer the old days, when they’d come to your house. It’s even harder convincing the cops your bathrobe “slipped open accidentally” when it happens in front of Wal-Mart. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/36 "2010-02-23T20:20:18Z")
Regional Walmart managers must have more latitude in how their store is run than I thought. Just this past weekend I got guilted into buying four boxes from the girl scouts right outside the store. So don’t worry Mama Zappa, only most Walmarts are teh evil. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/37 "2010-02-23T20:29:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I prefer the old days, when they’d come to your house. It’s even harder convincing the cops your bathrobe “slipped open accidentally” when it happens in front of Wal-Mart. What VT said. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/38 "2010-02-23T20:48:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Are you kidding? Thin Mints are like crack. I’d beat up a Girl Scout for a box of those things. As we speak, I am devising a method for mainlining them. Tagalongs are a close second in terms of crackitude. **Typo Knig** prefers Samoas. We’re a mixed marriage. Oh, and I have about a thousand boxes, including about 300 Thin Mints, in my living / dining room right now. Eat your heart out! Typo Knig keeps wandering among them, fondling the cases and hissing “My Precioussssssssss!”. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/39 "2010-02-23T20:49:36Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Bwuh? Is this a regional thing, maybe? The GS were outside of our local Wal-Mart just yesterday. Yeah, I think it’s a regional thing. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143/40 "2010-02-23T21:02:42Z")
I think they’re just trying to protect themselves, out of fear that the Girl Scouts will trample the Greeter to death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wal-mart-targets-the-girl-scouts-mild/530143.md?page=3)