@@davidbeaulieu4815 How did you manage to confuse the Girl Scouts with the Boy Scouts? Two entirely different organizations with wildly different agendas... Dumbass.
@@davidbeaulieu4815 You need a mental health check, sir, the Mormons do not and have never run either one. They have lately broken all ties with the Boy Scouts. Keep up.
I'm getting old, as my generation of girl scouts went DOOR TO DOOR selling cookies. I had a customer base of neighbors that waited for me to come by and take their cookie order every year. And one year my mother, who was our troop leader, over ordered cookies so I wen't door to door selling the extras. Had a few people run out of their house and flag me down on the street because they'd found an extra $2 and wanted another box! Girl Scout Cookies are a big deal.
I moved to a new place about 2 years ago, but my old neighborhood we still had door to door girl scout cookie sales. Sadly, my new neighborhood does not. I still know people where I used to live and now drive there each cookie season to get my boxes and buy them from outside the stores and such, but I still love buying from the girls going door to door in my old neighborhood and want to support.
kamicokrolock sadly, I think too many parents are reluctant to let their children go door to door anymore. (Admittedly, there are probably some neighborhoods I wouldn’t recommend it either) So more and more troops do what was/(is still?) called Booth Sales.
My daughter who is now 31 years old sold the cookies door to door. One year a bunch of "neighbors" stiffed her and did not pay for their cookies.Set what?? At the time they only cost three bucks a box. We had to buy $87 bucks worth of Girl Scout cookies! We gave some of them away. Of course we ate quite a few.
I did that, too! This year, I had to frantically search for them. Don’t keep me away from Thin Mints. I shove them in the freezer and wait until my birthday (late July!) to eat them
Tip: freeze Thin Mints, then bite a small piece of the side, carefully submerge in milk and after the cookie absorbs the milk, quickly put it in your mouth before it falls apart. You're welcome.
Our Citrus counsil in banned our troops from doing that some years back. Some other counsils did the same as well. The local counsil even has a booth schedule for each troop with times and locations. We can't even pick out girls' locations. It's mostly for safety reasons. You will see less and less troops do booths outside smoke shops but if you have one girl setting up near one, chances are the parent(s) will get into trouble with their counsil
@Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy if your doing it on private property and you have the owners permission police cant do anything. At least this is the way in Florida. We set up in front of stores all the time. Our biggest customer is Police Officers. They actually ask us what our schedule is so they can get their cookies.
The best one I heard was one girl scout setup inside of an airport past the gates. She earned like 180k during that sale season. All I could think of join the boyscouts for hard mode and sell popcorn.
@@davidcantwell2489 How could I misremember a thing like that? Well, I can misremember a lot of things, but in this case, I didn't: ruclips.net/video/IKUT1Z_q5Ao/видео.html
Thin mints are gross. Tagalongs are the best but either way i wont buy girlscout cookies because im not about to support the mormon church. Kinda pissed my ex signed my daughter up for girlscouts. Not only does it interfere with my time with her but the god part of their little pledge almost made me drag her out of there. Mormons are gross🤢
@@davidbeaulieu4815 I have NEVER heard anything about girl scouts being associated with the Mormon church. What evidence do you have to prove your claim?
When I was a kid, Girls Scouts would come to your door and you'd order your cookies from them but you had to wait several weeks before you actually got the cookies.
That's how it was for me too, in the mid 1970's My twin and I went door-to-door to sell the cookies I remember the big chocolate cookies with cream in the middle and the vanilla ones with the cream in the middle Those were my favorites
My ex's Mom was the Leader. When it came time to distribute the cookies, their front room looked like they were an Amway dealer. If Amway sold cookies. Just absolutely stacked with cases and cases of cookies.
Yes I grew up doing just that, mom would drive me around to different neighborhoods and I would get out and sell them and then weeks layer have to go back around and deliver them all, fun times.
I live in Savannah, the founding home of the Girl Scouts. I bought so many boxes, gave away most to bartenders and waitresses, and STILL have a freezer full of Thin Mints.
My coworkers daughter is a Girl Scout, so I'm watching this while eating my Thin Mints. Those and Samoas are my absolute favorites. I love this time of year.
I was a Girl Scout too. Love The Samoas, trefoils, Lemon, thin mints have the perfect amount of mint, YUM. A few years ago Girl Scouts were selling cookies outside of a Wal-Mart store, close by where I live, in Texas. A man drives up, gets out of his car & grabs their cash box. They ganged up on him, took it back, screamed & yelled at him A LOT!!! One of the girls took his car keys. Lots of people gathered around for the girls. Cops showed up & hauled him away. His car was towed. I guess they charged him with attempted robbery of Girl Scouts. He was found guilty. He wasn't in jail long enough. He couldn't afford to get his car out. No one would help his sorry butt either😂😂😂 Way To Go Girl Scouts!!!
Great story. Glad he was caught. I hope he learned never mess with the girls lol. There was a link last year that you could find where and when your local area Scouts (think within 25 miles or that you set your own parameter distance) was selling. I’m sure as we get closer to those dates, that link might come back up.
When I was diagnosed with Gluten sensitivity I wanted to cry because of my love of these cookies. Then the sad sad Toffee one came out. I thought I was tricked into eating sawdust...even milk couldn't help it.
My favorite is the Samoa's. Everyone has a different one. But with Samoa's I will open a pack and say I will only eat 2. Then after eating those 2 I will look down and see a row and a half gone. I swear.
I say only one box this year. I go home and plan the whole week to eat the cookies then 5pm shows up and i am getting back in the car to buy every box of samoas at their table. So glad they only come around once a year or i would be so poor.
We used to have the Lemonades in my area, but haven’t for a couple of years now. This year we did get the Lemon Ups, and they’re ok, but the Lemonades were way better. I just “discovered” the Trefoils last year (I, obviously, knew they were a thing, just had never tried them), and now they are one of my favorites. But, nothing beats the Thin Mints! They are the best!
I've never had the lemon cookies. Never seen them. Thin Mints are outrageous! Pop a whole one in your mouth at once and just let it melt over your tongue. Keebler makes the cookies on the West Coast so we have Samoas year round as Cocoanut Dreams. The Keebler Grasshoppers strangely aren't quite what a Thin Mint is.
Thin mints were better when they still had a thin layer of mint filling (like the interior of junior mints). That being said, life without peanut butter is no life at all.
I'm not sure that one can judge by eating one at a time. They're too small. One needs a mouthful. It's like judging a cheese burger by taking one nibble.
Oh gee, the English guy likes the toffee best? 😂 Seriously though, I know others have said it here and I'm sure Tarah has probably told you as well, but freezing your Thin Mints makes them even better! Crumble them up and add them to ice cream or a milk shake. You can't go wrong!
@lurocp8 oh so now I'm wondering if they have anything to do with old York or if that word means something i do not know? Old york (just called york) a city in northern England, on the Ouse River; population 136,900 (est. 2009
@@paulacarr122 that is an 8nteresting fact i had no idea about. Seems people can't come up with an original name for things (i know multiple people named David for example)
nebbin dog well... finally someone who doesn’t make me feel old. 😉 I sold GS cookies for 75 cents in the late 1970s. Last week my daughter stocked up on GS cookies from a girl in an Iowa council because those were apparently $4 a box, vs Minnesota is rumored to be be $5/box. Nice to live on the border
Depending on the bakery, the names are different. Where I’m from, the bakery was ABC. Standards were as follows (in no particular order): Shortbread Thin Mint Peanut Butter Sandwich Peanut Butter Patty Caramel deLite I believe our s’mores were the chocolate covered version. It’s been twenty years since I’ve sold a GS cookie!
The bakery called Little Brownie Bakers really needs to consider changing their name, considering the grody connotation of the phrase "baking brownies" nowadays...
I will freely express my politics online. I will debate theology at the drop of a miter/hijab/kippah. I revel in disabusing anti-vaxers. But voicing an opinion about which Girl Scout cookie is best? I'm not brave enough to do that.
The Samoas are my favorite girl scout cookies. I also loved Savannah Smiles (Lemon cookies) which were replaced with 🍋 ups . I liked the 🍋 ups and like the fact they have encouraging messages we all need to see, if we remember to read them before the cookies are eaten 😁😋🍴😍😆
That's unfortunate because I think part of the appeal IS the name. Little Brownie Bakers has a quaint, almost "tasty" sound to it. Weird, I know and, but it's just my 2 cents :)
As a Brownie scout in the late 50’s, I carried Thin Mints all over the neighborhood to sell. The peanut butter sandwich cookie was one of my favorites. In the early 60’s. Then the Shortbread. Yum
Theresa Hanssen Do-si-dos are my dad’s favorite. This year I got him a box. The looks were fantastic. I’d just bought $30 of diabetic supplies and zoom over to the cookie table... with Mom laughing behind me. But it’s cookies! What was I supposed to do, wait til next year?
John Michaelson My dad once bought a case of Thin Mints from the little girl across the street. Needless to say they remained in the freezer for a very long time. 😊
My Mom bought Thin Mints every year and immediately froze them. They are great with ice cream and also smashed to make a pie crust! I don't know where to buy them nowadays. I wish that you could order them on line! Any suggestions kind subscribers?
John Michaelson ...Why bother and waste steps to the freezer ? They scream my name . I would cave in . Just bring over the granddaughters and eat away ! Save time. Eat at at one sitting ! 😆🤣😂 I was in 4-H. Fortunately we didn’t sell cookies . We sold candy and peanuts for Orchestra. I am weak ! I feel sorry for any kid pushed into selling stuff for their groups ! 😱😱😱
I like it when the parents let the girls do the selling. It helps the girls develop confidence, and it's also fun to buy cookies from a group of kids at a card table. Where I live, they set up outside the local Ace Hardware store, and also at the BART station (that's the local commuter train system). I tried the S'mores, and while they don't taste much like real s'mores, they're pretty good for a sandwich cookie.
The Thin Mint cookies!! The absolute best!! I sold the cookies door to door as a kid and then as a young mother, I was leader and cookie captain for my daughters' troop. Being cookie captain cured me. Once is enough!😂 Lum 💖
Did you notice that your cookies, sold in and around Chicago, were made by The Little Brownie Bakers. But strangely there was no notice on the box that "no Brownies were harmed in the making of these cookies", unlike many cosmetics that say "not tested on animals" or movies that say "no animals were harmed in the making of this movie".
Considering "baking brownies" is a euphemism for cutting the cheese, they may want to consider a name change at some point. Sometimes a word or phrase just gets too ruined to use in a mundane context. And if none of you have ever thought of that, you are welcome. You will never see them the same way again.
As you might know The Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler (Ernie the Elf and his hollow tree) which is owned by Kellogg's (with Tony the tiger and his Frosted Flakes). The Little Brownie Bakers has been one of two bakeries for the Girl Scouts for a number of years so I imagine they have heard that reference before.
I was a Girl Scout and of course I sold Girl Scout Cookies! My favorite back then were the Thin Mints! I'll have to agree that my least favorite was the Do-Si-Dos (however it's spelled). But the Girl Scout organization had added a "new" cookie since my day called "Samoas", a sort of butter cookie drizzled with chocolate, caramel and coconut!!! Mmm-mmm-mmm! My favorite --- hands down!!!
This was so fun. We never had the Lemon cookies and I would love them. My husband's favorite is the thin mints and it is extremely hard for him to pass them up. He reluctantly has had to but does pay for a box then give it to someone standing around the table. My mom was a troop leader as was my sister. They went door to door, first taking orders and in my mom case after a month would fill a wagon with the cookies to deliver them. My sister used her van. Love seeing you both and enjoyed sharing the memories. I am still shocked at the absence of window screens in the UK. Had noticed it but just thought it was a London thing but now that I begin to reflect on the homes I have seen in the UK I realize I have never seen a screened porch neither.This had bothered me for years and I was so happy to have this confirmed, everyone in the states thought I was batty ( another reason for window screens, we have very friendly bats) Really enjoy spending time with y'all
Samoas are my favorite. I always buy a couple of boxes of them each year. Put one box out and hide away the rest so I don't eat them all at once. Thin Mints are a very strong second, also a few boxes each year. (Always good to see Lawrence and Tarah together.)
IKR. We don't have those and I'd like to try them. I do like the Savannah Smiles though. Are the S'Mores new? If not, I don't think we have those either in Texas.
@@tasham7874 Well I guess I'm behind now. LOL. I didn't order this year so I don't remember all that's available now. I usually mostly just go for Samoas anyway. They are the bomb, IMO.
i'm happy that you're in illinois. that makes it alot easier for me to understand your experiences. i live about an hour drive down I-90 away from chicago, and i typically visit the city multiple times a year.
You guys cracked me up 🤣 I'm not sure if you have shared in previous videos on how'd you guys meet but I would love to hear from you. You have great chemistry on your videos together.
I am old enough that samosa were called 'caramel delight", trefoil was just "short bread" and I forgot what tagalongs where called. I was the last member of my group 677, made it to Senior scout. So I was in high school in 1998 and a girl scout, some th thing I am proud of.
Also called Caramel Delights in Louisiana. I still think of Peanut Butter Patties as Tagalongs, even though we only had that name for them a few years. I remember when the baker for our region changed and we made lots of signs with the 'new and improved' names all the while complaining that the new names were so much more boring.
Actually it is the east that is the caramel delights. When i moved to North Carolina i kept seeing that name and wondered if it was the same cookie as the samoas in Utah. Yep same wonderful drug just different name.
@@richwood2741 Yes, the name is specific to the bakery. I specificed my state only because I'm not sure which states have which bakery to say a larger region.
My dental hygienist is the mother of a very young Girl Scout. This woman helps her daughter sell cookies to a nearby military base where her husband works. She described how she has to unload large boxes of cookies off of a truck & stack them up in her living room. Oh, and thin mints are by far her best seller.
Over the past few years, there's been some very smart Girl Scout troops that have set up outside of sporting events. They have huge carts filled with boxes of cookie, and they sell a TON of cookies to people leaving the game.
Lemonups are new this year. They replaced the old lemon cookies, which were either the lemonades they mentioned (ABC bakers) or Savannah smiles (little brownie bakers).
Loved the video - I too was a Girl Scout, and will stop at every cookie booth. My favorite is the Tagalong, but I enjoy peanut butter. There's usually one or two boxes of Thin Mints hidden in the freezer until June or July to make homemade Thin Mint ice cream. I like the s'more cookies lightly heated in the microwave 10 seconds. This year I missed the cookie and beer pairing events, but I do enjoy Trefoils with an IPA.
Thin Mints are absolutely my favorite Girl Scout cookie! I used to be a Girl Scout, too, and I’ve tried many kinds of Girl Scout cookies, and Thin Mints are far and away the best! It’s not even close.
Thin mints and Samoa’s are my favorite, I had no idea that there were regional flavors. Also thin mints get exponentially better if they come straight out of the freezer
I 100% agree with Tara about the idea trefoils! They are one of my favorites and I don't really know why. I think the girl Scouts just did a really good job with something very simple.
Girl Scout cookie prices have exploded over the years. Back in the 1950’s when I was a Brownie our boxes of cookies sold for 50 cents. My best friend’s mom was our leader and my mom was co-leader. Thin Mints have always been the best seller, even when my daughter was in Scouts. Yes, I’m from Illinois. (20 miles west of Chicago.) Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. Many out-of-staters want to put that “s” sound on the end.
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Do not buy them you're supporting the Mormon church. If the kid needs money for an activity just give them the money for an activity.
Oh same thing with the Boy Scouts it's run by the Mormon Church which is why they're very anti-lgbt.
@@davidbeaulieu4815 How did you manage to confuse the Girl Scouts with the Boy Scouts? Two entirely different organizations with wildly different agendas... Dumbass.
@@davidbeaulieu4815 You need a mental health check, sir, the Mormons do not and have never run either one. They have lately broken all ties with the Boy Scouts. Keep up.
Tarah hasn't posted in a while.
I'm getting old, as my generation of girl scouts went DOOR TO DOOR selling cookies. I had a customer base of neighbors that waited for me to come by and take their cookie order every year. And one year my mother, who was our troop leader, over ordered cookies so I wen't door to door selling the extras. Had a few people run out of their house and flag me down on the street because they'd found an extra $2 and wanted another box! Girl Scout Cookies are a big deal.
I moved to a new place about 2 years ago, but my old neighborhood we still had door to door girl scout cookie sales. Sadly, my new neighborhood does not. I still know people where I used to live and now drive there each cookie season to get my boxes and buy them from outside the stores and such, but I still love buying from the girls going door to door in my old neighborhood and want to support.
kamicokrolock sadly, I think too many parents are reluctant to let their children go door to door anymore. (Admittedly, there are probably some neighborhoods I wouldn’t recommend it either)
So more and more troops do what was/(is still?) called Booth Sales.
My kiddo did booth sales, door to door sales, and contacting friends and having us help her do deliveries.
My daughter who is now 31 years old sold the cookies door to door. One year a bunch of "neighbors" stiffed her and did not pay for their cookies.Set what?? At the time they only cost three bucks a box. We had to buy $87 bucks worth of Girl Scout cookies! We gave some of them away. Of course we ate quite a few.
I did that, too!
This year, I had to frantically search for them. Don’t keep me away from Thin Mints. I shove them in the freezer and wait until my birthday (late July!) to eat them
Tip: freeze Thin Mints, then bite a small piece of the side, carefully submerge in milk and after the cookie absorbs the milk, quickly put it in your mouth before it falls apart.
You're welcome.
And here I thought i invented that :)
Shhhhhh dont do that thats a trade secret!!!
Clayton Candle that sounds awesome!
Further, freeze the cookie, nip opposing edges and suck your milk thru, like a straw. Bliss.
Definitely the way to go!
Girl Scout cookies don't get you high, but some Girl Scouts have set up shop outside marijuana dispensaries.
They know their customer base. That is brilliant marketing.
Our Citrus counsil in banned our troops from doing that some years back. Some other counsils did the same as well. The local counsil even has a booth schedule for each troop with times and locations. We can't even pick out girls' locations. It's mostly for safety reasons. You will see less and less troops do booths outside smoke shops but if you have one girl setting up near one, chances are the parent(s) will get into trouble with their counsil
@@SherriLyle80s I think selling in front of a dispensary is better than setting up in front of a pay-day loan place like I saw last year.
@Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy if your doing it on private property and you have the owners permission police cant do anything. At least this is the way in Florida. We set up in front of stores all the time. Our biggest customer is Police Officers. They actually ask us what our schedule is so they can get their cookies.
The best one I heard was one girl scout setup inside of an airport past the gates. She earned like 180k during that sale season. All I could think of join the boyscouts for hard mode and sell popcorn.
"Are they made out of real girl scouts?"
Wednesday Addams, right?
You wouldn't believe the looks I get from Girl Scouts when I ask that question.
@@goldenknight578 I can believe it. It's an old enough movie now they've likely never had the pleasure before :-D
@@blindleader42
Actually it was Pugsley that asked that question.
@@davidcantwell2489 How could I misremember a thing like that? Well, I can misremember a lot of things, but in this case, I didn't: ruclips.net/video/IKUT1Z_q5Ao/видео.html
frozen thin mints are great. Somoas are my absolute favorite.
Frozen somoas are awesome as well!
Thin mints are gross. Tagalongs are the best but either way i wont buy girlscout cookies because im not about to support the mormon church. Kinda pissed my ex signed my daughter up for girlscouts. Not only does it interfere with my time with her but the god part of their little pledge almost made me drag her out of there. Mormons are gross🤢
They're my favorite too. Chocolate, coconut, and caramel, what's not to love.
@@davidbeaulieu4815 I have NEVER heard anything about girl scouts being associated with the Mormon church. What evidence do you have to prove your claim?
I'll let you in on a not-so-secret. Keebler Coconut Dreams are identical to Samoas. You can get them year-round.
When I was a kid, Girls Scouts would come to your door and you'd order your cookies from them but you had to wait several weeks before you actually got the cookies.
That's how it was for me too, in the mid 1970's My twin and I went door-to-door to sell the cookies I remember the big chocolate cookies with cream in the middle and the vanilla ones with the cream in the middle Those were my favorites
Some councils still do this.
The pain of waiting for those cookies would nearly drive me mad! LOL
My ex's Mom was the Leader. When it came time to distribute the cookies, their front room looked like they were an Amway dealer. If Amway sold cookies. Just absolutely stacked with cases and cases of cookies.
Yes I grew up doing just that, mom would drive me around to different neighborhoods and I would get out and sell them and then weeks layer have to go back around and deliver them all, fun times.
My favorite Girl Scout cookies are: Thin Mints and The Somoas! Have a good one!
Thin Mints and Samoas are the only ones that should exist.
Fact.
Anne Harris yes, those are my favorites too!
YAS Queen best ones ever
Yes, Thin Mints and Samoas. All other answers are bad and wrong.
I live in Savannah, the founding home of the Girl Scouts. I bought so many boxes, gave away most to bartenders and waitresses, and STILL have a freezer full of Thin Mints.
You don't like mint AND you don't like peanut butter... That's un-American!!! Wait... You... Aren't... 😂
He is now.
I think
As far as Laurence has said, he is a permanent resident, but he hasn't gone on to take the citizenship test.
Sunset you may be thinking of John Oliver, another of my fave Brits.
Europeans love mint!!! We have after eight. Mint and chocolate in little envelopes. Delicious!
“There was a recession! What was I supposed to do?!” That made me laugh way too hard. 😂🤣
I was thinking the same thing!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If I could only ever have one type of girl scout cookie for the rest of my life it would be hands down Samoas.
Ditto.
No one could take away my Tagalongs.
My coworkers daughter is a Girl Scout, so I'm watching this while eating my Thin Mints. Those and Samoas are my absolute favorites. I love this time of year.
Keebler Coconut Dreams are identical to Samoas. You can have those year-round at a reasonable price.
Matt, I ate a tube of thin mints. Beer chaser was a slight wake up call.
SO many agree, thin mints and samoas.
Sounds like he was shaken down by the Girl Scout Mafia.
They hook the entire population on their addictive products, what a business model!
Well....aren't we all???
I was a Girl Scout too. Love The Samoas, trefoils, Lemon, thin mints have the perfect amount of mint, YUM.
A few years ago Girl Scouts were selling cookies outside of a Wal-Mart store, close by where I live, in Texas. A man drives up, gets out of his car & grabs their cash box. They ganged up on him, took it back, screamed & yelled at him A LOT!!! One of the girls took his car keys. Lots of people gathered around for the girls. Cops showed up & hauled him away. His car was towed. I guess they charged him with attempted robbery of Girl Scouts. He was found guilty. He wasn't in jail long enough. He couldn't afford to get his car out. No one would help his sorry butt either😂😂😂
Way To Go Girl Scouts!!!
Hahaha, imagine him telling the rest of the guys in prison, "Yeah, I got beat up by a bunch of girl scouts that I tried to rob."
Don't mess with Texas Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts 1; creep 0.
Great story. Glad he was caught. I hope he learned never mess with the girls lol. There was a link last year that you could find where and when your local area Scouts (think within 25 miles or that you set your own parameter distance) was selling. I’m sure as we get closer to those dates, that link might come back up.
When I was diagnosed with Gluten sensitivity I wanted to cry because of my love of these cookies. Then the sad sad Toffee one came out. I thought I was tricked into eating sawdust...even milk couldn't help it.
Ikr? Why can't they give us a gluten free thin mint?
Goody Girl makes gluten free mint cookies that are actually better than GS thin mints.
@@loriloristuff I'll have to try those! Sounds delicious! ❤
My favorite is the Samoa's. Everyone has a different one. But with Samoa's I will open a pack and say I will only eat 2. Then after eating those 2 I will look down and see a row and a half gone. I swear.
Literally me. I always say I'll just eat one or two. Then I look down and there's eight or ten gone. Samoa's are just so addicting.
Team Samoa! My order this year was 2 boxes of Samoa’s, 2 of Tagalongs, 1 of s’mores and 1 of thin mints
Freeze them, and then dip them in your coffee.
I say only one box this year. I go home and plan the whole week to eat the cookies then 5pm shows up and i am getting back in the car to buy every box of samoas at their table. So glad they only come around once a year or i would be so poor.
Samoas were, for me, the hardest to locate a non GS equivalent for when the sales season was over.
We used to have the Lemonades in my area, but haven’t for a couple of years now. This year we did get the Lemon Ups, and they’re ok, but the Lemonades were way better. I just “discovered” the Trefoils last year (I, obviously, knew they were a thing, just had never tried them), and now they are one of my favorites. But, nothing beats the Thin Mints! They are the best!
Yeah we get the Lemonades every year. They are stopping Thanks-a-lots 😢 This was the last year ABC Bakery made them.
I've never had the lemon cookies. Never seen them. Thin Mints are outrageous! Pop a whole one in your mouth at once and just let it melt over your tongue.
Keebler makes the cookies on the West Coast so we have Samoas year round as Cocoanut Dreams. The Keebler Grasshoppers strangely aren't quite what a Thin Mint is.
Trefoils have always been my favorite.
Savannah Smiles are a good lemon GS cookie. It's more subtle. Like a russian tea cake, but lemon-y.
I miss the Savannah Smiles. they got replaced this year.
Thin Mints forever! :)
I'm with you and Tara. Thin mints are awesome! But I like the others a lot too. I haven't seen the smores though.
Jill C. Yep! Former Scout of nine years happily munching on Thin Mints (this diabetic doesn’t care)
Thin mints were better when they still had a thin layer of mint filling (like the interior of junior mints). That being said, life without peanut butter is no life at all.
“Unoffensive”, what a great descriptor for Girl Scout cookies. Very apt.
*SJW's have entered the chat*
Pretty good description. They are not good but not awful
THIN MINTS for the win! Always and forever.
The real winners are the #KaNsAsCiTyChIeFs !!
I love these reaction videos/collabs with The Wife. It's a real snapshot of what gets Lost In The Pond.
When I was a Girl Scout the trefoil cookies had the letters GS instead of the face symbol.
I'm not sure that one can judge by eating one at a time. They're too small. One needs a mouthful. It's like judging a cheese burger by taking one nibble.
The boxes and the cookies used to be larger.
@@bookwoman53 And I was smaller.
Former GS here! I currently have two daughters who are also GS. Thank you for your support. :D
I was a Campfire Girl, but good you!
Oh gee, the English guy likes the toffee best? 😂
Seriously though, I know others have said it here and I'm sure Tarah has probably told you as well, but freezing your Thin Mints makes them even better! Crumble them up and add them to ice cream or a milk shake. You can't go wrong!
If you are going to put it on icecream then go big or go home get those silver wrapped candy new yorks i think that are called those are way better
The Toffee Tastic Crunch is amazing dipped in your morning coffee!!
@lurocp8 oh so now I'm wondering if they have anything to do with old York or if that word means something i do not know?
Old york (just called york) a city in northern England, on the Ouse River; population 136,900 (est. 2009
@@bland9876 It's also a town in Pennsylvania, and that's where the name comes from.
@@paulacarr122 that is an 8nteresting fact i had no idea about. Seems people can't come up with an original name for things (i know multiple people named David for example)
Such memories. The cookies were 50 cents a box when I sold them. Hope the tradition of scouts and cookie sales continues.
Gee, they were 3$ a box when I started, and 4 by the time I graduated, and these days they're 6$ a box.
... and still worth every penny!
TiggerIsMyCat wow $6 my local Girl Scout Cookies were $5 this year and I thought that was expensive
scrappy00001 in my area they are $4 a box. I’m wondering if they have regional pricing or if some girls are trying to increase their profits.
nebbin dog well... finally someone who doesn’t make me feel old. 😉
I sold GS cookies for 75 cents in the late 1970s.
Last week my daughter stocked up on GS cookies from a girl in an Iowa council because those were apparently $4 a box, vs Minnesota is rumored to be be $5/box.
Nice to live on the border
During each Girl Scout Cookie season, I have to buy a year’s supply of Samoas.
I could buy a years worth of Samoas and they would only last me a month 😄
I've never met a girl Scout cookie that I didn't like. They are all scrumptious and the little girls are so cute!😊❤
Do- si -does are my favorites! Well, behind Somoas. LOL
Depending on the bakery, the names are different. Where I’m from, the bakery was ABC. Standards were as follows (in no particular order):
Shortbread
Thin Mint
Peanut Butter Sandwich
Peanut Butter Patty
Caramel deLite
I believe our s’mores were the chocolate covered version.
It’s been twenty years since I’ve sold a GS cookie!
The bakery called Little Brownie Bakers really needs to consider changing their name, considering the grody connotation of the phrase "baking brownies" nowadays...
Good video. I was a little concerned for your safety after reading the title. Remember, the only thing the mob fear are the Girl scouts.
I will freely express my politics online.
I will debate theology at the drop of a miter/hijab/kippah.
I revel in disabusing anti-vaxers.
But voicing an opinion about which Girl Scout cookie is best? I'm not brave enough to do that.
Jesse Berg 😂
You know which battles you can and can't survive! A wise soul you are! 😂
Helen G. Pitts was that monologue necessary?
ROFL Oops my butt fell off!
@@nickdelsobral9198 it's spam
Carmel Delites (Samoas) are my favorite with Thin Mints a close second.
The Samoas are my favorite girl scout cookies. I also loved Savannah Smiles (Lemon cookies) which were replaced with 🍋 ups . I liked the 🍋 ups and like the fact they have encouraging messages we all need to see, if we remember to read them before the cookies are eaten 😁😋🍴😍😆
Were they entirely replaced or just in your region?
@@chawndel8279 I'm not sure , but I think the Savannah Smiles were replaced completely by the 🍋 ups
@@danielleporter1829 yeah, I looked it up and I'm so disappointed. They were my favorite cookie ever. Not just from the GS, but all cookies.
Girl Scout cookies, and a LARGE cup of coffee, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
They always corner me as I'm leaving the grocery store and say "Would you like to buy some cookies?" and I say "Yes I would."
You are forgetting rule one for some of the cookies.. Like Thin Mints and Samoas.. YOU MUST FREEZE THEM FOR MAXIMUM DELICIOUSNESS
That's unfortunate because I think part of the appeal IS the name. Little Brownie Bakers has a quaint, almost "tasty" sound to it. Weird, I know and, but it's just my 2 cents :)
As a Brownie scout in the late 50’s, I carried Thin Mints all over the neighborhood to sell. The peanut butter sandwich cookie was one of my favorites. In the early 60’s. Then the Shortbread. Yum
Theresa Hanssen Do-si-dos are my dad’s favorite. This year I got him a box. The looks were fantastic. I’d just bought $30 of diabetic supplies and zoom over to the cookie table... with Mom laughing behind me. But it’s cookies! What was I supposed to do, wait til next year?
Frozen Thin Mints....no cookie is better. Plus it makes them last longer (theoretically, but how long would they last anyway?)
John Michaelson My dad once bought a case of Thin Mints from the little girl across the street. Needless to say they remained in the freezer for a very long time. 😊
My Mom bought Thin Mints every year and immediately froze them. They are great with ice cream and also smashed to make a pie crust! I don't know where to buy them nowadays. I wish that you could order them on line! Any suggestions kind subscribers?
John Symons, I was just able to Google GIRL SCOUT COOKIES NEAR ME and was able to find a sale location. Goodluck!
John Michaelson ...Why bother and waste steps to the freezer ? They scream my name . I would cave in . Just bring over the granddaughters and eat away ! Save time. Eat at at one sitting ! 😆🤣😂 I was in 4-H. Fortunately we didn’t sell cookies . We sold candy and peanuts for Orchestra. I am weak ! I feel sorry for any kid pushed into selling stuff for their groups ! 😱😱😱
I'm 45 and pretty sure my dad still has some Thin Mints in the fridge from when I was selling them at 12
Do-si-does rock!
My favorites are dosidoes and the mints.
I like it when the parents let the girls do the selling. It helps the girls develop confidence, and it's also fun to buy cookies from a group of kids at a card table. Where I live, they set up outside the local Ace Hardware store, and also at the BART station (that's the local commuter train system).
I tried the S'mores, and while they don't taste much like real s'mores, they're pretty good for a sandwich cookie.
Love love LOVE the Tagalongs ... tho I don't eat them very often.
Same. I love Peanut butter patties. They're my favorite.
ABSOLUTELY 👍👍👍👍👍
The Thin Mint cookies!! The absolute best!!
I sold the cookies door to door as a kid and then as a young mother, I was leader and cookie captain for my daughters' troop. Being cookie captain cured me. Once is enough!😂
Lum 💖
This year I bought a box of Thin Mints from a Girl Scout and her FATHER who were set up outside of Chick-fil-a.
Bella’s Mom Yay! Cookie Mom-ster!!
Thin mints are my all time favorite cookie, but must be eaten fresh out of the freezer! Yum!
The moment you realize other countries dont have girl scout cookies. 😮 that's crazy 🇺🇲
We have Girl Guide cookies in Canada. We have a thin mint equivalent, and chocolate/vanilla sandwich dealie.
Thin mints are best frozen. Yum! Those and Samoas are my favorites. I want to try the Lemon one.
Did you notice that your cookies, sold in and around Chicago, were made by The Little Brownie Bakers. But strangely there was no notice on the box that "no Brownies were harmed in the making of these cookies", unlike many cosmetics that say "not tested on animals" or movies that say "no animals were harmed in the making of this movie".
Reminds me of this: ruclips.net/video/IKUT1Z_q5Ao/видео.html
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Considering "baking brownies" is a euphemism for cutting the cheese, they may want to consider a name change at some point. Sometimes a word or phrase just gets too ruined to use in a mundane context.
And if none of you have ever thought of that, you are welcome. You will never see them the same way again.
As you might know The Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler (Ernie the Elf and his hollow tree) which is owned by Kellogg's (with Tony the tiger and his Frosted Flakes). The Little Brownie Bakers has been one of two bakeries for the Girl Scouts for a number of years so I imagine they have heard that reference before.
Do-si-dos are only good (in my opinion) when you double stack them like you do with oreos to make them "double stuff".
I was a Girl Scout and of course I sold Girl Scout Cookies! My favorite back then were the Thin Mints! I'll have to agree that my least favorite was the Do-Si-Dos (however it's spelled). But the Girl Scout organization had added a "new" cookie since my day called "Samoas", a sort of butter cookie drizzled with chocolate, caramel and coconut!!! Mmm-mmm-mmm! My favorite --- hands down!!!
This was so fun. We never had the Lemon cookies and I would love them. My husband's favorite is the thin mints and it is extremely hard for him to pass them up. He reluctantly has had to but does pay for a box then give it to someone standing around the table. My mom was a troop leader as was my sister. They went door to door, first taking orders and in my mom case after a month would fill a wagon with the cookies to deliver them. My sister used her van. Love seeing you both and enjoyed sharing the memories. I am still shocked at the absence of window screens in the UK. Had noticed it but just thought it was a London thing but now that I begin to reflect on the homes I have seen in the UK I realize I have never seen a screened porch neither.This had bothered me for years and I was so happy to have this confirmed, everyone in the states thought I was batty ( another reason for window screens, we have very friendly bats) Really enjoy spending time with y'all
Samoas are my favorite. I always buy a couple of boxes of them each year. Put one box out and hide away the rest so I don't eat them all at once. Thin Mints are a very strong second, also a few boxes each year. (Always good to see Lawrence and Tarah together.)
I didnt know there were other cookies I only ever here the girls say THINMINTs , to which I reply ILL TAKE THEM ALL!!!NOW
IKR?
Girl Scouts really is a great program for children. I love what they do.
Laurence and Tara, you are getting tantalizing close to 95, 000 subscribers. I hope you are planning a rip snortin' hullabaloo to mark 100, 000!!!
tantalizingly...oops
I want lemon ups in the South!!
IKR. We don't have those and I'd like to try them. I do like the Savannah Smiles though. Are the S'Mores new? If not, I don't think we have those either in Texas.
@@andreamiller3578 Lemon ups replaced Savannah Smiles. You will either have Lemon ups or lemonades.
@@tasham7874 Well I guess I'm behind now. LOL. I didn't order this year so I don't remember all that's available now. I usually mostly just go for Samoas anyway. They are the bomb, IMO.
Cat of the Castle-I'm surprised you haven't had the Lemonades. I'm not sure where you are in the south, but we have them in NC and they are delicious!
Like the vlogs.They are clean cut and informative.
Used to love the Samoas and Thin Mints until they changed the formulas in the late 90s. One of my curses is the ability to taste the "artificial".
i'm happy that you're in illinois. that makes it alot easier for me to understand your experiences. i live about an hour drive down I-90 away from chicago, and i typically visit the city multiple times a year.
Hey Tara! I miss girl scout cookies. I used to be a Girl Scout too .
You guys cracked me up 🤣
I'm not sure if you have shared in previous videos on how'd you guys meet but I would love to hear from you. You have great chemistry on your videos together.
I think I'll create a mint peanut butter cookie and name it Lorenzo's Folly.
I am old enough that samosa were called 'caramel delight", trefoil was just "short bread" and I forgot what tagalongs where called. I was the last member of my group 677, made it to Senior scout. So I was in high school in 1998 and a girl scout, some th thing I am proud of.
Kelly Sue Grimm I graduated high school in 1997, & got my Gold Award in 1996.
I manage to stay cookie “clean” all year until February when my neighborhood cookie “dealer” comes around.🤣 Thin mints are my weakness!
Tagalongs and thin mints in the freezer are incredible!
Samoas are called something like Caramel Delights in the West.
Also called Caramel Delights in Louisiana. I still think of Peanut Butter Patties as Tagalongs, even though we only had that name for them a few years. I remember when the baker for our region changed and we made lots of signs with the 'new and improved' names all the while complaining that the new names were so much more boring.
Actually it is the east that is the caramel delights. When i moved to North Carolina i kept seeing that name and wondered if it was the same cookie as the samoas in Utah. Yep same wonderful drug just different name.
@@richwood2741 Yes, the name is specific to the bakery. I specificed my state only because I'm not sure which states have which bakery to say a larger region.
@@richwood2741 They're Caramel delights in California.
@@richwood2741 maybe a southeast thing... in the Northeast we get samoas.
FYI: The trefoil (shortbread cookies) and Thin Mints have been a favorite since 1964.
I like making peanut butter sandwiches using two Treffoils, sorry to be such an American.
My dental hygienist is the mother of a very young Girl Scout. This woman helps her daughter sell cookies to a nearby military base where her husband works. She described how she has to unload large boxes of cookies off of a truck & stack them up in her living room.
Oh, and thin mints are by far her best seller.
Okay everyone send him boxes and boxes of thin mints!!!!!!!
Over the past few years, there's been some very smart Girl Scout troops that have set up outside of sporting events. They have huge carts filled with boxes of cookie, and they sell a TON of cookies to people leaving the game.
"If I wanted cookies I'd have purchased them in the store!"
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Man, the Girl Scouts have really branches out! Lots of new cookie flavors
Samoas are my favorite. Thin mints and tagalongs are tied for second.
shaninnmarie Are Tag A Longs new?
I so enjoy you two. Thank you!
Love the cookies. I think it's mostly because I have to wait a whole year to get them.
I have never heard of a lemon up, though.
Lemonups are new this year. They replaced the old lemon cookies, which were either the lemonades they mentioned (ABC bakers) or Savannah smiles (little brownie bakers).
I remember when Girl Scout Cookies costs $2 per box. Now they are $5 per box.
Too bad you weren’t around in the 1980s...maybe 1990s at the latest. The cookies were much better and you got much more
Loved the video - I too was a Girl Scout, and will stop at every cookie booth. My favorite is the Tagalong, but I enjoy peanut butter. There's usually one or two boxes of Thin Mints hidden in the freezer until June or July to make homemade Thin Mint ice cream. I like the s'more cookies lightly heated in the microwave 10 seconds. This year I missed the cookie and beer pairing events, but I do enjoy Trefoils with an IPA.
That pairing sounds delicious!
How poor does your sense of taste have to be to not love peanut butter? Tagalongs for the win!!!
Thin Mints are absolutely my favorite Girl Scout cookie! I used to be a Girl Scout, too, and I’ve tried many kinds of Girl Scout cookies, and Thin Mints are far and away the best! It’s not even close.
I’m one of the few that don’t like thin mints lol. I love the Samoa’s, shortbread and lemon
Frozen thin mints and ice cold milk are an absolute mouthgasm!
Thin mints and Samoa’s are my favorite, I had no idea that there were regional flavors. Also thin mints get exponentially better if they come straight out of the freezer
When I got a stomach bug and couldn't even keep water down, Thin Mints and green grapes were what helped me get my appetite back and stop being sick.
I remember Thin Mints since the 1950s. Still my favorite.
Tarrah is so pretty! Her voice is so soothing and pleasant too 😄
It's nice to see them around town in February.
Ice the Trefoils with your favorite frosting and refrigerate fro an hour. Awesome summer treat.
Some places around the US have a different type of s’mores. I believe it’s a graham cracker/cookie with a marshmallow layer, all dipped in chocolate
I could listen to Lawrence say squirrel all day.
Great video. Thank you for the low-down on Girl Scout Cookies.
I 100% agree with Tara about the idea trefoils! They are one of my favorites and I don't really know why. I think the girl Scouts just did a really good job with something very simple.
Girl Scout cookie prices have exploded over the years. Back in the 1950’s when I was a Brownie our boxes of cookies sold for 50 cents. My best friend’s mom was our leader and my mom was co-leader. Thin Mints have always been the best seller, even when my daughter was in Scouts. Yes, I’m from Illinois. (20 miles west of Chicago.) Thank you for pronouncing it correctly. Many out-of-staters want to put that “s” sound on the end.
Thin mints are amazing when frozen and/or mixed in milk shakes or ice cream smoothies. Yummy!
Firstly, I only just found this channel and I am loving it! Secondly, I really would like to try that lemon cookie! You are just lovely to watch and have given me something to smile about all day today. Thank you!
I wholeheartedly agree about mint. I would have refused to try it. You were very brave Laurence
I would never be disappointed if the only two cookie types in the jar were Thin Mints and Tagalongs. Both are glorious.