Girl Scout cookies

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Last year I remember that the little pushers, er I mean girls, were in the Davis Square subway station several days running, at rush hour, selling their cookies. This year I haven't seen them though. Did I miss it? Or is it yet to come? Alternatively, anyone know where/how else I can get my Thin Mint fix? I was hoping that a coworker with a daughter would come through, but no luck.

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Did you hear that GS cookies will have less cookies per box? They had to either lower the amount of cookies, or raise the price. :(

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Fewer cookies per box? I hadn't heard that, but I'm not surprised. It's not going to stop me buying them either, though. ;)

[studeronomy.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Somebody please arrest the government now.

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

If they had girl-scout cookie subsidies in the stimulus package it wouldn't've happened. Clearly we need to lobby Congress to make this vital addition! ;P

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, since the de facto serving size for girl scout cookies is "one box", this is good for my health.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! Also, true.

[veda815.livejournal.com]

I think it is too early. I ordered some from a co-worker and they have not come in yet.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

As I remember the Girl Scouts invade Davis end of February/beginning of March.

[ron_newman]

OK, who put the 'pest control' tag on this post?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

lol sorry, that was me. I was in a goofy mood when I posted.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

OMG full of win!!!!!

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I am afraid I de-crazified it this afternoon. Sorry. =)

[radegund-lj.livejournal.com]

The Girl Scouts usually stake out Alewife station too and I have not seen any yet this year.

Aqualung- the Davis Square edition

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I am amused at the thought of someone wandering around the station asking people "where are all the little girls at?"

Re: Aqualung- the Davis Square edition

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I do not understand you young people and your pop-culture references, but I'm glad I could amuse you. Now get off my lawn. ;)

Re: Aqualung- the Davis Square edition

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I suppose I have to turn down my music and get a haircut too.....

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

I realize this is probably a travesty, but I actually make mine from this recipe:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001370.html

They're disarmingly good.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

You know, I love that blog, and I've had that entry bookmarked for ages but haven't tried the recipe yet. Hmm. Maybe this is my project for the weekend! Laundry schmaundry! ;)

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

I made a full recipe last weekend, and let me tell you, they did NOT last long.

One note, though: don't use Toll House chips (even semi-sweet) for the coating. There's something that's a bit sickly sweet about them, even with the semi-sweet. If you can find a really good, not-too-sweet dark chocolate, that's the best.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, 'cause I probably would have done exactly that. :)

[tamalinn.livejournal.com]

oh, that's my favorite food blog. i hadn't made these yet, but they're on my list.

[opn.livejournal.com]

Girl Scouts have a table set up outside the Shaw's in Porter Square right now!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Oh snap! Thanks for the news flash :)

[ursamajor]

They usually post a reasonably accurate schedule on their website; lemme see if I can track it down.

(Why no, I haven't been wondering the same thing. At all. >_>)

Per http://www.girlscoutseasternmass.org/ :

- sale "extended through March 31" (HALLELUJAH, MORE TIME TO STOCK UP)
- cookies available: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Shortbread, Caramel deLites® (which I grew up with as Samoas), Peanut Butter Patties®, Lemonades, Thanks-A-Lot™, and Daisy Go Rounds™ "in portion-controlled packs."
- PDF of current schedule by town (Excel spreadsheet of cookieness); says it gets updated every business day.

[studeronomy.livejournal.com]

Portion-control my ass. I'm living on a diet of Samoas from now until March 31. GET FAT GET FAT!

[annalauwa.livejournal.com]

they were called caramel delites when i was growing up (and a girl scout), and then sometime in high school they changed it to samoas for a few years, and then back to caramel delites.

so it could be that they used to be samoas back in the day (like, the early/mid 80's), but they'll always be caramel delites to me!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Actually, from what I understand, there are two different manufacturers that make the cookies, and one calls them caramel delites while the other calls them samoas. So it's all down to which factory supplies the cookies for your particular troop. At least, that's my recollection! Not that I'm like any kind of psycho girl-scout trivia expert or anything ;)

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

where i grew up, they were samoas... the different manufacturers theory makes sense, since i moved to boston from the midwest and none of the names are the same. I remember hearing they had to change them in a fit of PC-ness (samoas was insensitive and racial... not sure how tagalongs, do-si-dos, trefoils, etc, fit into that concern, though).

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I remembered different names, too, so I found this info from Wikipedia (also on the Girl Scout website):
Girl Scout cookies are made by large national commercial bakeries under license from Girl Scouts of the USA. In 2008 the licensed companies were Little Brownie Bakers (LBB), a subsidiary of Keebler; and ABC Bakers, a subsidiary of Interbake Food, which is owned by George Weston Limited.

Varieties
Licensed baking companies can offer up to twenty eight varieties of Girl Scout cookies. The national Girl Scout organization reviews and approves all varieties proposed by the baking companies, but requires only three types: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwiches (called Do-Si-Do's by LBB) and Shortbreads (called Trefoils by LBB). The other kinds can be changed every year, though several popular favorites, such as Caramel DeLites (LBB's Samoas) and Peanut Butter Patties (Tagalongs by LBB), are consistently available. Each baking company names its own cookies. Thus the exact kinds, names, and composition of the cookies may vary from year to year, depending on which baking companies have been licensed.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

LBB was DEF my baker growing up, b/c I sold Do-Si-Do's, Trefoils, Samoas and Tagalongs.

[koloratur.livejournal.com]

Exactly - my husband SWEARS he can tell the difference between Caramel deLites and Samoas, and that Samoas are waaaay better :)

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

Keebler used to make a cookie that tasted just like Samoas but they were shaped differently. You could buy them at any grocery store. (They maybe still make it, but I haven't looked in a long time, and I forget what they are called.)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Really! I always assumed they just changed the name so we wouldn't realize those were the really caloric ones.

Man, I could go for a couple of those right now.

[aki.livejournal.com]

I've heard the same.

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

They are still samoas in Florida and other locations. It depends on which manufacturer they use. Samoas use dark chocolate while the other name uses milk chocolate. I miss samoas, and I make my mom mail me some every year.

[blackdove24.livejournal.com]

I'm from Florida too and just moved up... so are you also saying these Caramel deLight things don't compare? : (
Cos I do <3 my Samoas so...

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

Where in Florida? I see you are also in the fsu_noles community.

I noticed a difference in the chocolate. They were good, but I was really bitter about the chocolate difference and the price difference (they are $4 here!).

I found a few recipes, and I keep meaning to make them myself. Maybe we should have a we want samoas party and attempt to make them.

[blackdove24.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah, guess I never remembered to leave the FSU group. I went to FSU from 2001-2005, graduated with a degree in studio art (concentration - graphic design, haven't really used it though), and grew up in Tampa. Then I spent almost three years in Sarasota before moving here.

How about you? It sounds like you also went to FSU, when were you there?

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

I was there from 03-07. I grew up in Panama City, but my mom moved to Tallahassee my third year. I guess that's "home" now .

One of my roommates from FSU did studio art.

Mind if I friend you?

[blackdove24.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm tempted to ask who, but probably no one I knew. I think the only time when someone asked me if I knew so-and-so who went to FSU and I actually knew the person was when it was someone who went through the graphic design program at the exact same time.

And mind if I add you too?

[madrigal.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

There are two different bakeries. One uses the boring names as above and the other has Samoas, Tagalongs, etc. Some people insist on one bakery or the other based on taste - I think the nearest source for the other kind is New Hampshire.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Growing up in RI, I sold Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Peanut Butter Patties, and Shortbread Cookies, we didn't have the funky names. Maybe we got ours from that NH bakery. I have no idea.

[thebostonreader.livejournal.com]

I was a Girl Scout in NH in the late 80s, and I sold Samoas, Do-Si-Dos, etc. I was always vaguely embarrassed by the cutesy names, though.

[eternalhearts.livejournal.com]

I'm a Girl Scout leader--the MBTA lottery hasn't happened yet; until that does, no cookies at T stations (not sure when it'll happen, will keep y'all updated.

I just joined this community or would have posted about my sale in Porter, thanks to all that made it out, will be sure to post in the future (didn't have internet this weekend either).

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. A friend of mine just told me that her daughter's troop will be selling in the Alewife t-station on Thursday; was she misinformed or what?

[eternalhearts.livejournal.com]

It's very possible the lottery has happened and I wasn't informed about it yet. But thanks for letting me know, I like to buy a box or two to support other troops.