One of My Favorite Rites of Spring...

[3113]

Not daylight's savings time, nor my cats shedding, nor even Passover matzos appearing in the stores but...

https://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/images/mtc_cookies/boxes_.png

Snow may still be on the ground where you are, and the vernal equinox isn't due for another week, but the most wondrous rite of spring has started. Cookies!

Thin mints and Somoas for me. How about you?

 

[Hypoxia]

Girl Scouts no longer walk down my road since the last were devoured by bears. Such a waste.

 

[sr71plt]

Expecting nine-to-twelve inches of snow tomorrow night, I'm not giving any thought at all to Girl Scout cookies. If she appears at my door with a snow shovel in her hands, I'll buy a couple of boxes of them.

 

[JKendallDane]

I'm not picky.

Thin mints, thin mints, or thin mints is fine with me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I bought 5 boxes from my grand-daughters and let them keep the cookies to snack on.

 

[lovecraft68]

I go with what JB does I usually buy a few boxes from a couple of people in work to support their daughters then give them to my wife who donates them to her churches weekly food drive.

I admit on occasions if I'm in a junk food eating phase I'll keep a box of the shortbread cookies.

 

[patientlee]

Our troop disbanded this year. Can't say I miss the cookies.

ETA: Our cookie sale started in January each year. We would be taking orders during New Year's Resolution Week. They were usually delivered in time for the Annual Catholic Diet. The timing was rough on sales.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its cookies or magazines but I haven't seen candy bars in years.

 

[lovecraft68]

Our troop disbanded this year. Can't say I miss the cookies.

ETA: Our cookie sale started in January each year. We would be taking orders during New Year's Resolution Week. They were usually delivered in time for the Annual Catholic Diet. The timing was rough on sales.

A Catholic diet?

What does that mean? They say they won't eat then binge, tell the priests they're sorry and binge again? That's what they do right? Sin, say they're sorry to a diddler, then sin again?

 

[patientlee]

A Catholic diet?

What does that mean? They say they won't eat then binge, tell the priests they're sorry and binge again? That's what they do right? Sin, say they're sorry to a diddler, then sin again?

Lent. Everybody I know is off sweets, chocolate, or soda.

 

[lovecraft68]

Lent. Everybody I know is off sweets, chocolate, or soda.

Funny what traditions and "rules" those idiots will choose to follow while they ignore all the "big sins"

If god existed I doubt he would care what anyone ate.

 

[MrFoxwood]

I'm not sure if there are any Scouts around here but thanks to my haste in the supermarket my ginger and chocolate chip cookies became ginger and butterscotch-chocolate chip and now I'm a happy monkey who has only stopped baking because he's out of ingredients and everything is closed on Sundays.

On the Lent thing: I had to explain this to my (Catholic) wife after our annual conversation about Shrove Tuesday, the point of which I'm not entirely sure about but I have the excuse of being an atheist.

 

[49greg]

Thin Mints

Yum. My wife and I went shopping in the nearby 'big town' at the HyVee and there were girl scouts and their mom's selling cookies.

We only got two boxes and how I wish we had gotten six or eight. The best part is that they were ice cold from being in someone's car or truck.

Don't care if we are expecting snow and ice for the next few days, it's thin mint time!

 

[3113]

If god existed I doubt he would care what anyone ate.

Lent is about (quoting Wiki here) "...the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving, atonement and self-denial" for the Easter Holy week. So it's not really about what god would think. Keeping kosher is about what god would think as god, presumably, said "here's what you can eat and what you can't." But self-denial during Lent by not eating sweets (or red meat as some Catholics do) is more a matter of emulating Jesus (his fasting for 40 days in the desert) and trying to be, like him, more pious.

We will grant that any given organized Christian religion may imply that it *is* about what god will think in trying to strong arm its congregants into abstaining from this or that, but that doesn't mean it really is about that when you get down to the nitty-gritty.

As for god caring...I'm an atheist, but it seems to me that if there was an all powerful, omniscient god, he could care about everything, down to the tiniest thing because omniscient means knowing all. So. Maybe he would care what people ate at this time. Why he would set up such rules and care about them is the real mystery.

 

[Hypoxia]

My fave Rite Of Spring was the Joffrey Ballet's vivid and detailed recreation of the infamous 1913 premiere, staged at the old SF Opera House. We got SRO (standing room) tickets and swayed in the back with crowds of impoverished students and dancers. Fabulous.

 

[Handley_Page]

We get the thin mints at Christmas, usually

 

[3113]

We get the thin mints at Christmas, usually

What a nice idea. Christmas thin mints (as compared to Easter thin mints)

 

[DeeZire]

Last time I bought girl scout cookies (as a favor to the mom) I ended up throwing them out. They've got to be the worst cookies ever baked. It's such a shame. If I were involved in the GS organization, I'd lobby for a transition to Girl Scout Cliff bars.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Don't bring up those wonderful cookies. It's torture. Worse for my wife than for me, but still torture, knowing that I never seem to have cash on hand of late when I run across them. Grrrrr.....