Are girl scout cookies always the same or does it depend on where they come from? I’ve seen them in just about every American sitcom/animated sitcom ever and I’m just curious if they are a specific brand or something else?
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RangerJosie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If I was buying mystery boxes of mystery shit on the deep web and ended up with a box of girl scout cookies I wouldn’t even be mad.
Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They’re all the same.
“Girl Scout Cookies” is a brand of its own. They’re mostly pretty good too. I’m a samoa guy, when I can be talked into spending way too much on cookies where the actual local scouts don’t really see enough of the funding from the sales.
I’m not a fan of the organization. The cookies though, they’re legit.
OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Small correction, only discovered when I moved across the country: there are two factories producing Girl Scout Cookies – and the recipes have overlap, but each production company has a few unique ones. So sometimes I have to order from my niece rather than my neighbor.
Some of them are the same everywhere, though.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s why in some areas Samoas are called Caramel Delights. IIRC, they use extremely slightly different recipes, and there is some sort of licensing agreement between the two.
All I know is that as a Cub/Boy Scout, I loathed Girl Scout Cookie season, because it overlapped with Boy Scout Popcorn season. It took me years to figure out that the way to sell the stuff was to completely ignore the product, and sell the idea of “keeping young boys from inventing their own entertainment.”
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I did not know that! Thanks for the info :)
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So it’s just a MLM scheme?
Matthew@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah but the real ingenuity is in the child labor
laranis@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Always has been.
Teaches girls to be entrepreneurs so they can grow up and sell Tupperware or Pampered Chef or whatever bullshit is getting hocked about these days.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yup, though not really multi in the true sense, but that’s essentialy how it works. It’s pretty shitty
Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Thanks for the answer. The need for something on such a huge scale just for girls scouts seems crazy to me! But your country is on a huge scale I suppose.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There are two manufacturers of Girl Scout cookies in the US. They’re roughly a West and East manufacturer. Their cookies taste subtly different–unless you have sensory integration disorder like my sister and have tasted the difference her whole life and then deep dived into it in her early 20s and felt very vindicated when she found out there were two distributors and no she wasn’t crazy that whole time and just tasted that almost impossible to detect difference.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What flavor we talkin here?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Mystery flavor obviously.
What could possibly go wrong?
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Mystery flavor obviously.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This Man Fucked
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s the genius of it. Oh, my box is Thin Mints? Cool! Especially when you have had a few days to think of all the worse things it could have been.