Comment on Anon sells girl scout cookies

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.”

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did not know that! Thanks for the info :)

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s just a MLM scheme?

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    • Matthew@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but the real ingenuity is in the child labor

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    • 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.

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    • 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

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Single level marketing?

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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