To hell with it, shut up and eat your damned Girl Scout Cookies.

[riff]

I was thinking about this just last night. A friend and I went out walking and we got thirsty so we stopped into a convenience store. On the counter they were selling GS cookies.

Of course, she oogled at them.

We got into a discussion about the specialness of GS cookies. I argued that they are just another cookie, and that all this crap about girl scout cookies is right up there with Christmas, the Easter Bunny, and the 4th of July. People love to love Girl Scout Cookies. It was only last week at school I had to listen to my boss go on and on about how much she loved girl scout cookies and bought boxes and boxes of them to give to her friends.

As for the cookies themselves, they are good, but just another cookie if you ask me.

Think about it. What a good-natured way for different people to get together and talk about something totally meaningless. Like birds chirping in a tree. (Yeah, I know, we are all birds in a tree).

If I said FUCK the Girlscouts and their goddamned cookies, that would make me anti-social. I might as well say, Fuck Mother's Day, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny too. Anyone know where I can get toilet paper with the American flag printed on it?

Anyway.... They are good cookies. But they are just cookies.

 

[christophe]

they are addicting lil bastards aint they....expensive fattening lil buggers

 

[lovetoread]

Hey I'm with you.

Selling the buggers are harder than eating them. Try explaining why you are out of thin mints but have tons of the lemon pastries!

Ahhhh!!!!!!

And all the GS officials want is the girls to sell sell sell.

They care about nothing else.

And try to keep 2 cats out of hundreds of boxes of the cookies...sigh....

 

[juicylips]

Anyway.... They are good cookies. But they are just cookies.

I want you to eat my cookies, riff

Or..maybe I would much rather eat you.

Morning riffilicious

JL

 

[alexandraaah]

I always took you for an anti-social, riff.

But really, I think Girl Scout Cookies are a divine creation. Yum.



I'm just relieved to find that the thread title wasn't a conversation with a waaay underaged girlfriend or something.

 

[SilverVeil]

The cookies are good.... but I feel like I get mugged when I go to the store and have 5 little kids run up and ask me on the way in if I want to buy some, then again on the way out.

And you feel so guilty when you say " No thanks. " Like the Grinch or something.

 

[TN_Vixen]

whaaa?

they are NOT just another cookie. heh. You can't find thin mints like GS thin mints anywhere else. And, those peanut butter ones? Mmmm MMM! I love GS cookies, but haven't bought them for 2 years or more b/c I usually end up eating the whole box and that ain't good for the booty.


riffy.. I'm shocked at you.

 

[Wiggles]

I cannot believe that they are just another cookie! Would any other cookie seduce me into eating the Whole Box, in two days??

And I'm not just talking about one box, i'm talking three different boxes of different cookies.... One thin mint, one peanut butter, and the coconut things... None of em' lasted more than two days once I cracked the seal... They are my undoing!

Down with GS cookies!

And up with my arse!

 

[Weird Harold]

As for the cookies themselves, they are good, but just another cookie if you ask me.

Thanks for the reminder, I was wondering what I should have for breakfast! (Peanut Butter sandwich cookies, only because they were closest to the freezer door. )

Thin Mints, Lemon Pastries, and Caramel Delights are cookies that you can only get from the Girl Scouts. You may find close approximations, but nothing I've seen comes close to the originals.

You're obviously a barbarian with no taste. I bet you think fine wines come in screw-top bottles or gallon boxes.

 

[sunstruck]

Ok, here's the thing with GS cookies. People only want them because they can't get them all the time. It's just like those damn Cadbury mini eggs I'm addicted to. I KNOW it's the same chocolate they use in their regular bars that I can buy any time I want to, but when I see those little purple packages I just HAVE to have them. Despite the fact that I haven't so much as glanced at a Cadbury bar all year.
It's human nature to want what we can't have and to horde it when we get the chance. We're freaks.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Just any cookie ?!?

I do like GS cookies, my favorite would have to be the Samoas.
I did not buy any, they were given to me.

But if you can find a cookie that tastes exactly like Samoas in any store then I will agree with you that they are just like any cookie out there on the store shelf.



Rock on' riff

 

[lovetoread]

There are now cookies that are trying to be like GS cookies. I know there are at least 2 or 3 brands trying the thin mints and one that is doing the shortbread kind,even down to the logo on top. I tried one of the "fake" thin mints, and it is not the same.

But enough about that,anyone eat the GS cookie ice creams????

 

[riff]

OK, OK, OK....

So I wanted to buy some of the peanut butter ones. But I didn't.

They are still just cookies! I am not much of a cookie person anyway, though I can make a meal with a package of Nutter Butter Peanut Butter sandwich cookies.

If it makes you feel good to know that the cookie you are eating is a Girl Scout cookie, then have at it!

Concerned about what's good for the booty, Vixen? I got something that is very good for yours....

 

[cutie pie]

LTR - the Girl Scout cookie ice cream is awesome!! Especially the thin mint one.

Riff - Speaking as the mother of a Girl Scout, and once a Girl Scout myself (shh, don't tell anybody ). . .the cookies are quality cookies. . .I've gone through several boxes in the week or so that we've had them and I'm not really a cookie-eater. Yes, they may be a tad expensive, but a big part of that money goes to Girl Scouts and to individual troops. I don't have a problem spending money to support a worthwhile organization that offers activities to young girls that help them grow into strong, independent young women.

** stepping off my soapbox and heading to the grocery store for some thin mint ice cream **

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I don't have a problem spending money to support a worthwhile organization that offers activities to young girls that help them grow into strong, independent young women.

Exactly, better to help and give them a wholesome start to life, than pay for drug and criminal rehab for them later through your taxes

 

[looking4fun]

I think sunstruck hit the nail on the head. If I could buy Samoas every week, I could live w/o them. However only getting them once a year keeps the cravings going.

 

[riff]

I think sunstruck hit the nail on the head. If I could buy Samoas every week, I could live w/o them. However only getting them once a year keeps the cravings going.

True- but I add, and I maintain my stance:

Good cookies. But there is a psychology that permeates the entire cult of the Girl Scout Cookie.

TH Oughts and Cutie Pie- buying the cookie is moral decision?


~laughing~

 

[T.H. Oughts]

TH Oughts and Cutie Pie- buying the cookie is moral decision?

lol, there are some things you do for others and not just yourself.... if by eating box loads of cookies I can give someone a better start in life then so be it

 

[cutie pie]

TH Oughts and Cutie Pie- buying the cookie is moral decision?

~laughing~

Ummm. . .no, I buy them because they're tasty. I buy many, many boxes because it's for a good cause.

Riff. . .got milk?

 

[xMorganx]

Did anyone ever think..

It is sad that once a year i see everyone at my work (including myself *sob*) run to the lady who has a kid in scouts and order oogles and oogles of cookies. For that reason i am now living on cookies, yummy tastey cookies. whose boxes are covered with poster children for Prozac. I have come to the conclusion that Girl scout cookies have a "mystical magical" drug in them that upon hearing about the cookies enacts a subconsious stimuli that makes us all belive we MUST eat as many of these cookies as possible, because if we dont then we will all die just that much more sadder. Hmmm. this sounds like CRACK to me! thats it the damn cookies have drugs in them!
on a nother note It seems like the Girl scouts are a cult. They force innocent girls who do not know better to come and wear their nifty color coded uniforms to solicit cookies to unsuspecting americans!

-How do they get the girl scout into the cookie?

 

[riff]

Re: Did anyone ever think..

-How do they get the girl scout into the cookie?

It's called "Marketing."

 

[Skibum]

Re: Did anyone ever think..

-How do they get the girl scout into the cookie?

An industrial strength grinder?

 

[IA951]

cookies are cookies man, but I love these fucking things.
The peanut butter ones and the short bread ones fuck yeah man!

I don't give much thought to it being Girl Scouts you know?
it's a good fucking cookie
I buy like a dozen boxes at a time you know?
it's pretty awesome.