Girl Scout Cookies...

metalspinner · March 03, 2008, 09:34:20 PM

...were delivered today! 8) Of course I recieved a couple of boxes of Thin Mints. The Tag-a-longs are one of my favorates. Do-si-do' are pretty good, too. I'm trying out the lemon creme sandwich ones this year, as well. Mmmm, mm.

Now I need to find a hiding place so the kids don't eat them all. ;D

SwampDonkey · March 03, 2008, 09:38:59 PM

Got no little Girl guides around now. The neighbor's kids used to sell some. Hmmm, probably my cousin's little one will have some. Seems she came by last year with her grandmother.

zopi · March 03, 2008, 09:47:10 PM

moved 29 cases yesterday...gonna be more this weekend....am eating a box of chocolate chips now...

ohsoloco · March 03, 2008, 10:00:24 PM

The Samoas are my favorite, but maybe that's cuz I don't have those lemon creme's. The tag alongs (are those the peanut butter ones?) didn't do much for me this year. The chocolate tasted kinda waxy to me. I'll take Tastycake Kandy Cakes over them any day

WDH · March 03, 2008, 11:28:21 PM

With three daughters and my wife as a girl scout leader, I have loved the cookies for a long time. Mmmmmmmmmm ;D. It is a tradition.

ScottAR · March 04, 2008, 01:30:57 AM

Thin mints... Can't help myself... Really...

Mint and Chocolate are like heroin or somthing... :D :

1 box should be enough but I had 3...

LeeB · March 04, 2008, 01:20:36 PM

Stash a couple boxes of thin mints in the freezer till summer and then crumble them into a batch of homemade vanilla ice cream.

Norm · March 04, 2008, 03:28:09 PM

I think the only way to get them to last that long would be the same technique I use for steaks I wrap in the freezer. I label them as liver. :D

LeeB · March 04, 2008, 03:42:55 PM

Quote from: Norm on March 04, 2008, 03:28:09 PM
I think the only way to get them to last that long would be the same technique I use for steaks I wrap in the freezer. I label them as liver. :D

:D :DI got a refrigerator in my shop with a lock on it. :D :D

beenthere · March 04, 2008, 03:44:30 PM

Quote from: Norm on March 04, 2008, 03:28:09 PM
I think the only way to get them to last that long would be the same technique I use for steaks I wrap in the freezer. I label them as liver. :D

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

SwampDonkey · March 04, 2008, 04:15:38 PM

Trade secrets? ;D

thecfarm · March 04, 2008, 08:25:35 PM

Put the samoas in the fridge for a few hours.Not too long or they will get too hard.Those thin mints are hard to beat.By the box I can and do eat them.I have put them in the freezer before.I take them to work and don't share with anyone.Probaly could get a buck a cookie. :D

zopi · March 04, 2008, 09:01:44 PM

Quote from: WDH on March 03, 2008, 11:28:21 PM
With three daughters and my wife as a girl scout leader, I have loved the cookies for a long time. Mmmmmmmmmm ;D. It is a tradition.

Me too...3 scouts and mom is brownie leader...gotta deliver the goods saturday for a booth sale and keep the Daisy...she and I will be hauling logs all day...

i just inhaled an entire box of tagalongs...and I weigh 140 lbs...eatcher heart out Jenny Craig...

metalspinner · March 04, 2008, 09:18:31 PM

Quotei just inhaled an entire box of tagalongs...

That box is open on my workbench. I was a bit dissappointed in the number of cookies in the package. I guess the number of calories makes up for the shortage of cookies. :'(

zopi · March 04, 2008, 09:34:30 PM

betcha can't eat just one....

box. ;D

Patty · March 05, 2008, 10:54:13 AM

When I was a Girl Scout we lived in the country outside of Madison. I walked a mile each way from our farm visiting the neighbors (all 2 of them :

) I did not sell one single cookie. :-\ Our troop leader gave us points on each box we sold, and I so badly wanted points that I dumped out my piggy bank and bought a box of thin mints with my own money. It was my only sale, I was mortified when the other girls had their order forms all full with purchases. When the cookies arrived I took my 1 box home and ate the whole thing. It was wonderful! I have loved the thin mints ever since. Even though I have not had any in years, I can still taste them. They are delightful.

Note to Patty: Go open up all the liver in the freezer. ;D

WDH · March 05, 2008, 12:06:07 PM

Quote from: Patty on March 05, 2008, 10:54:13 AM

Note to Patty: Go open up all the liver in the freezer. ;D

You will need a big bag of onions, too ;D.

SwampDonkey · March 05, 2008, 01:50:05 PM

All I see here are chocolate wafer and vanilla wafer cookies, no mints.

metalspinner · March 05, 2008, 11:47:44 PM

Just cracked open the Lemon Chalet Cremes. Boy, these things are good, too. There is a lingering after taste, though. I thought I ordered a box of the peanut butter sandwich cookies, but I guess not. :(

Tom · March 06, 2008, 04:02:42 PM

Somebody left an open package of chocolate mint cookies on the drainboard this morning. I took them to work and devoured every last one with my thermos of hot coffee. I'll be sneaking around the kitchen again tonight. ;D

They aren't fattening if you don't get caught. ;D

SwampDonkey · March 06, 2008, 06:01:57 PM

Keep that thought. ;D :D :D

isawlogs · March 08, 2008, 09:19:04 PM

Quote from: Tom on March 06, 2008, 04:02:42 PM
Somebody left an open package of chocolate mint cookies on the drainboard this morning. I took them to work and devoured every last one with my thermos of hot coffee. I'll be sneaking around the kitchen again tonight. ;D

They aren't fattening if you don't get caught. ;D

Wont be fattening if you get caught either ....

Gael ever catches your hand in da pot , she'd be chassing you down da road till you used up all dem callories in each one of dem cookies and then some .

LOGDOG · March 08, 2008, 11:27:51 PM

If we could get those Girl Scouts to start selling our lumber we'd have no worries. I can't seem to say know to them. ;)

LOGDOG

Paschale · March 08, 2008, 11:59:14 PM

I practically ate a whole box of those caramel delights/samoas today, and the last three are tempting me as I type. Those are like crack for me. :

I'm not looking forward to my weigh in next week. ;D

I ordered a couple of boxes of thin mints too--nothing better than pulling those from the freezer and having a tall, cold glass of milk. 8) I really like the shortbread cookies too, and I swear I ordered a box of those, but what I got was a box of those peanut butter cookies. I'm not a fan of those, and never have been. I think I'm going to have to track down some of the shortbread cookies at the local Wal Mart where they put up a table every year. digin_2

Patty · March 09, 2008, 10:12:29 AM

You can just send those peanut butter ones my way, Paschale. ;D It would take me about one glass of milk to finish off a box of those. :D

metalspinner · March 09, 2008, 01:28:01 PM

Those Peanut Butter sandwiches (Do-si-do's?) give you a lot of bang for the buck. They are quite filling for an afternoon snack.

Engineer · March 10, 2008, 02:56:34 PM

My eldest daughter's just received her order and sorted them all out. I haven't tied into them yet. She wanted to eat them herself, and I said if she wants to buy some and add them to my order, I'll share. :D ;)

For the amount of cookies you get, I think they should sell them for about $2 a box and not $3.50. I forget what the numbers are but the girls only get like 10% or something stupid like that. So if they sell 50 boxes they only get $17.50 toward camp or summer activities. I can just give her $20 and save myself from having to eat 5 cases of cookies.

Patty · March 10, 2008, 04:55:07 PM

Great minds think alike Engineer! ;D

When my boys were in school they were always coming home with new schemes the school had to raise money for one thing or another. :

Like candy bars for $5 or magazine subscriptions and such. We lived in a township with just little old widow ladies, and I would not let the boys solicit them because they were just too poor, and I didn't feel the need to drive the boys around the countryside to schlep these overpriced goods for the school. So I would call the school and ask them how much I needed to send to them to make up for share of goods not sold by my sons. Usually $20 would do it. Life was just simpler that way.

SwampDonkey · March 10, 2008, 06:08:46 PM

:D :D :D

We were on our own when it came to pedaling school chocolate bars and magazine subscriptions. We had to walk or bicycle, but there was no taxiing around by car. That cut into sales quite quick. ;D :D