Uh-oh. It's the most dangerous time of the year ... the THIN MINTS are here!

[Arugula Latte]

Get thee away from me, Demon Cookie!



Anyone else fighting to get the the Thin Mint monkey off your back?

[Seeking Serenity]

1. Not a bit of it.

Got five boxes in the freezer. And there they'll stay until July, when the summer heat compels the feasting upon some ice-cold Thin Mints.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Oh, jeez. When you were a kid you probably made your

Halloween candy last until Easter.

Mine was gone by, like, November 3rd.

:P

[Seeking Serenity]

5. Well, it's too cold to eat them now, isn't it?

Besides, I've got the Do-Si-Dos and Tagalogs and Trefoils to keep me company until then.

[LibraLiz1973]

21. Mine was gone by November 1

LOL

[MassLiberal]

2. mine haven't arrived yet

but it'll be a struggle when they do.

[this_side_up]

3. Trans fats. So we had no

problem not buying any type of GS cookies

[Skittles]

20. get with the program

http://www.girlscouts.org/news/news_releases/2006/gs_cookies_now_have_zero_trans_fats.asp

[xmas74]

26. there is no trans fat in GS cookies

and hasn't been in a few years now.

[kath]

33. well there MAY be trans fat - just less than 0.5 grams per serving

Stupid loophole - Canada measures down to .2 or .3 grams. And I think companies are making "serving sizes" smaller and smaller to squeak in under the .5 gram cutoff.

[this_side_up]

40. read post 33 from Kath.

I'm too tired to look up the article but Kath is correct.

The rethuglicon govt decided that is is perfectly acceptable
for corporations to lie to consumers by allowing companies to put the
words....zero trans fat on the packaging -- IF there is .05 or less
per serving.

The only way to know if there is any trans fat (no amount
is safe) is to actually read the list of ingredients for
hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated.

Until they come up with a new word to cover it up.

Schwan's frozen foods came up with electronic
pastuerizatioin to cover up the fact that the food
has been radiated.

[lost-in-nj]

6. there are no girl scouts around here

I didn't get to buy any cookies :(

I think they sell them at the mall though

ENJOY!!!!


my weakness is the Samoas


lost

[Arugula Latte]

9. Samoooooas ...

(Hah! I first read that as "samosas" ... Yummy Indian potato-y cookies! ;) )

[TheCentepedeShoes]

16. Somozas

Nicaraguan dictator cookies.

[xmas74]

27. Go to the girlscouts.org site,

find your council and then find the dates for sales. Sometimes they put the dates and times, along with the locations, for outside sales.

[momophile]

7. lord, please don't let me see the girl scouts at the grocery store!

I love Samoas!

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

8. Yum!!!

Double-teamed by the Thin Mints and Samoas here. I usually require adult supervision if there is a plate in the room that even remotely resembles this one...



I'm getting hungry. Very, very hungry.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Ours will be in next weekend

I will have 100 boxes delivered to me, to be delivered to all we sold to.

[LibraLiz1973]

22. If you hear of a real honest to god box of Samoas, let me know

I am in a real tizzy over the change

[KitchenWitch]

23. Our council switched to the new baker

Sorry.

[TZ]

11. WAAAAH!!

I have to go on a strict diet now because of bp/cholesterol/trigyceride/glucose levels.
You all are making me very, very sad....:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Ah, crap. Sorry.

:hug:

[radfringe]

12. fighting to get the the Thin Mint monkey off your back?

alas we lost - bought 2 boxes over the weekend... 1 box already gone, the other is doomed for consumption tonight

[Blue-Jay]

14. nom nom nom...

Quick & dirty PS:

[DarkTirade]

15. ... god damn it.

Right when I'm trying to get back on the 'losing weight' wagon.

Unfortunate side effect of quitting a manual labor job... I'm no longer doing heavy exercise 20-25 hours a week. :\ I've taken up ice skating now that I actually have lots of rinks in the area, but that's about it so far.

[Bake]

17. Mine came today. But they may not make it home.

My secretary is a dope dealer.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7484575

I ate a whole box of trefoils. The Samoas and Thin Mints are calling now.

Bake

[Arugula Latte]

29. You are doomed.

Doomed, sez I.

There's no hope for you now. I must look away ...

[Parche]

18. hey fellow oregonian

I still have boxes from last year i didnt eat yet.....Oops.......:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

24. Whaaa!

That's not right! Lol.

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. my dad has to avoid making eye contact with the Girl Scouts...

when he leaves the grocery store...otherwise he ends up coming home with a ton and a half of cookies. They must see suckers like him coming from a mile away

[xmas74]

25. I have some in my freezer.

I'm a troop leader and I have a Brownie in the house.

[Arugula Latte]

28. Oooh. Added danger. You are at Cookie Ground Zero.

By the way; here's a marketing idea to run by the Brownies...Have 'em sell brownies. Yum. :9 *drools*

[xmas74]

32. We can only do GS-approved fundraisers.

Anything after that cannot be affiliated with a GS troop. That's what really sucks.

[KitchenWitch]

38. Really?

In our council, we can do outside fundraisers as long as we do both the fall fundraiser (nuts I think it is) and the cookie sales.

[xmas74]

43. We've always been told that it can only be GS-approved.

Supposedly council picks the official fundraisers and then they get approval. This way no one can just claim to be a GS doing a fundraiser, since some will try to rip others off.

The parents can have a fundraiser and call it something like (for example): The mothers of GS Troop #(we'll say 5150 for example)-as long as it's something that will not raise too many eyebrows. Even then you have to be careful with what the fundraiser is.

Check what the actual fundraisers are called sometime. Supposedly, according to both our old and new council and other area councils (within a few states) we can't do a fundraiser unless it's officially GS-sanctioned.

I've been looking into the fundraisers and boy is it a mess!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. I'm Just Gonna Have Two, I Swear. Just Two.

Holy fuck! How the hell did I eat the whole box? What the fuck is wrong with me?

[Tresalisa]

31. I haven't been hit up yet, but thanks for the reminder and warning!

My fave cookies are the shortbread and chocolate ones :p YUM!

Yes, I AM on a diet, ya wanna make something of it? (Sorry, dieting makes me a little cranky)

[Mugu]

34. The one problem that I don't have. n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

35. Buy two boxes and throw them in the freezer.

I forget about them until it's 34C outside.

[BrotherBuzz]

36. I found my wife's super double secret hiding spot for our cache of thin mints

I'm in good spirits.

[marzipanni]

37. Not so fast, Sherlock

The previous spot has been scuttled and a new maraud-proof area is being devised. :rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

39. Ah, I have the secret weapon - Sally the wonder dog

With her schnozzola, we will ferret out that new location in a snap.



(How do you think I found your last super duper hidey-hole, anyway? :rofl:)

[chknltl]

41. Butter cookies are my nemesis

Each Christmas season I get me one of those mega-tins of butter cookies. Each January I find myself craving them again as all that I have left is a big empty tin "hatbox". I am by the way munching some as I type this post. How is THAT you ask? Well this year I got sneaky: I purchased a dozen of the smaller sized tins which only hold 60 cookies each. If I time it right and only allow myself 1 tin per month I should make it to next Christmas before I run out! It is my hope that the butter in the butter cookies doesn't go bad over time 'lest my scheme be screwn!'

I think this proves that butter cookies are at least as evil as thin mints. (Equally yummy too imo)

[HuffleClaw]

42. THOSE disgusting things are NOT the REAL girl guide cookies

but THESE are !

[grannylib]

44. I'm a Samoa and Trefoil gal myself, but those damn minty things

are pretty tasty.
And I do dearly love the peanut butter ones; can't remember what they're called just now.

[Infomaniac]

45. I invite you to join me in a class action against the Girl Scouts of America

on the grounds of false advertising. It says right on the box, "Thin Mints." I ate box after box and you know what happened? I got fat. That is some serious false advertising. If they were called Butt Expanding Mints, I wouldn't have bought and eaten a case. So what do you say? Are you in on the lawsuit?