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TWO GIRL SCOUT COOKIES BEING DISCONTINUED

Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:57:46 GMT

Not posting a link, but the article is on cheapism dot com.

No changes to the 2025 GS cookie lineup, but in 2026, both S'mores and Toast Yay will be gone.

I'd never heard of either of them.

Personally, I no longer buy GS cookies. The boxes have gotten so small and the prices increased so much that I feel taken advantage of.

Instead, when I encounter GS trying to sell them, I tell them I don't want any cookies but will give a $2 donation to GS.

A flat out donation feels better to me, and there's plenty of generic thin mints I can buy all year long.

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Pong3 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:10:45 GMT

I love thin mints.

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Love my grandkids — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:12:31 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 I read this days ago. I heard the S'mores flavor didn't go over well. I don't buy them as they are too spendy but I do give the girls a donation as they sell in fron of my Safeway.

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jackthebear — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:18:51 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
Not posting a link, but the article is on cheapism dot com.

No changes to the 2025 GS cookie lineup, but in 2026, both S'mores and Toast Yay will be gone.

I'd never heard of either of them.

Personally, I no longer buy GS cookies. The boxes have gotten so small and the prices increased so much that I feel taken advantage of.

Instead, when I encounter GS trying to sell them, I tell them I don't want any cookies but will give a $2 donation to GS.

A flat out donation feels better to me, and there's plenty of generic thin mints I can buy all year long.

I do the same

the thin mints don't taste as nice as they used to either

and based on when my kid sold them the donations stay with the troop where as the cookie money doesn't

but it's a nice thing for the kids to do

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twinsister — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:24:55 GMT

We just placed a large order from my step-granddaughter and the smores were one of our choices. I never heard of Toast Yay. My favorite is Thin Mints and Do si Dos. They are now $7 a box.

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I am still oxox — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:34:12 GMT

@twinsister wrote:
We just placed a large order from my step-granddaughter and the smores were one of our choices. I never heard of Toast Yay. My favorite is Thin Mints and Do si Dos. They are now $7 a box.

@twinsister I think they were 50 cents when I sold them in the 1960's.

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Goodie2shoes — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:35:27 GMT

I was a brownie and then a girl scout. I remember selling cookies and I would sell the most cookies every year. My grandfather worked at a factory and he would take my order sheet to his job and it would come back completely filled out with orders. I had to request a second order form from the troop leader. This was back in the 60's. I haven't bought GS cookies in sooo many years because of having diabetes. I remember S'mores but not Toast Yay.

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CoffeeNut — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:38:58 GMT

@Pong3 wrote:
I love thin mints.

I love the thin mint too. Right out of the freezer.

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:39:31 GMT

They had a Chocolate Raspberry version that people couldn't find, and the girls didn't have them.

I'm not sure if they didn't manufacture enough or the problem was some other reason.

Anyone know more on this?

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rms1954 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:08:30 GMT

Stopped purchasing them a nuimber of years ago. They have a waxy taste. I think Keebler makes a better thin mint.

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River Song — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:21:08 GMT

I was a Brownie when I started selling cookies door-to-door. This was way before taking orders. I would wear my Brownie uniform and carry two cardboard boxes with handles that were filled with an assortment of cookies and go door-to-door in our neighborhood and peddle cookies for 25 cents a box. When the price went up to 35 cents/box, customers complained. They really complained when the price went up to 50 cents/box. Peanut butter patties were the big seller, thin mints the next most popular.

Girl Scout cookies have always been twice as expensive as cookies from the grocery store but who could resist a little girl in a Brownie uniform standing at your front door with boxes of cookies that only cost a quarter?

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AuntG — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:54:10 GMT

Just saw a box of Thin Mints in my cupboard. I should have frozen them last March when the neighbor delivered them.

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haddon9 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:52:05 GMT

I was also a Brownie and my mom was cookie mom for one year. I can't remember how much those cookies sold for then in 1962/1963?...I'm assuming either 35 or 50 cents at the time.

Anyway, fast forward and I became a cookie mom for my DD's troop and we had a garage full of cookies in the middle of winter. I can remember owing the troop a lot of $$$ since I had easy access to snacks and took advantage of that. Thin mints were my favorites!

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We rescue cats — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:46:39 GMT

They have become so expensive that we stopped buying them. DH found an imitation/knock-off at Aldis that keeps him happy!

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Neetgal2 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:40:49 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
They had a Chocolate Raspberry version that people couldn't find, and the girls didn't have them.

I'm not sure if they didn't manufacture enough or the problem was some other reason.

Anyone know more on this?

If my memory serves me correctly, these were only available by mail. I hear about it on one of the morning shows. I went to order and the shipping fee was more than two boxes of cookies. I decided I would just buy the plain chocolate mint cookies from the scouts outside the grocery store.

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shoekitty — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:01:00 GMT

To me the cookies are not that good, they are overpriced, having said that. I just donate cash to them. The cookies are the kind you buy at at dollar store. Nothing unique. I do like the mint ones, but I like better the mint ones I get at super market. Girl Scouts and brownies are such a good cause. And they are so darn cute and excited when they are selling. I just give 10 or 20 bux and tell them to keep cookies. I wish if they are going to charge so much they made a more unique and tastier cookie. But I imagine shipping, selling and the thousands of boxes that are made special for them.are pricy to do. In this economy anyway. I also inmagime nabisxo takes a hearty donation for making them on their taxes

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meallen616 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:57:06 GMT

Maybe one box this year, samoas!

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Rockycoast — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:14:25 GMT

We stopped buying them many years ago. When they switched bakeries and got smaller and less flavorful. I was a thin mints and samoas lover.

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Biftu — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:18:18 GMT

@Goodie2shoes wrote:
I was a brownie and then a girl scout. I remember selling cookies and I would sell the most cookies every year. My grandfather worked at a factory and he would take my order sheet to his job and it would come back completely filled out with orders. I had to request a second order form from the troop leader. This was back in the 60's. I haven't bought GS cookies in sooo many years because of having diabetes. I remember S'mores but not Toast Yay.

@Goodie2shoes My mother was a Girl Scout leader and when cookie time came our living room was stacked with cookie boxes waiting to be distributed. Soon as I could I trolled the neighborhood door to door selling the cookies. I did ok but not like the kids, like you, whose relatives took orders from people where they worked. My father refused to do this. I could never sell as many as these girls and remember feeling it just wasn't fair, I worked so hard and they did nothing! So silly looking back at it now.

Still buy the cookie mints to support the troops. These kids sell them in front of grocery stores. Times have sadly changed, you wouldn't want these girls going door to door in these times.

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Estellee — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:22:13 GMT

I buy the Do Si Do cookies when they are available. I havn't found anything in the stores that I like as well.