TWO GIRL SCOUT COOKIES BEING DISCONTINUED - Page 2

River Song · ‎03-15-2010

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?

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” ~ Voltaire 1694-1778

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

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

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

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!

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

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

Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

Neetgal2 · ‎02-12-2016

@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.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

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

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

meallen616 · ‎01-10-2013

Maybe one box this year, samoas!

Rockycoast · ‎03-02-2016

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.

Biftu · ‎02-05-2011

@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.