Diet busted: Girl Scout cookies are here
The Story
If you’re a committed Girl Scouts cookie fan, you already know this: It’s time to get your Thin Mints on. Girl Scout cookies are for sale.
A photo posted by Emma Morgan ☀️ (@emmaaarie) on Feb 12, 2015 at 1:53pm PST
Big business
– 200 million boxes of cookies sold each year
– That’s about $800 million worth
– Three new cookies; the first two are gluten-free: Toffee-tastic, buttery cookies with toffee bits; Trios, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and whole grain oats; Rah-Rah Raisin, an oatmeal raisin cookie with whole grain oats, plump, juicy raisins and Greek yogurt–flavored chunks.
– There’s now an app for Girl Scouts that will tell you the closest places selling cookies.
– Or you can go to this website, plug in your zip and find the nearest spot selling.
What’s your favorite?
Are you a Trefoil type? Or the gooeyness of Samoas? Here’s what a Girl Scouts poll found:
Sharing the Girl Scout cookie love
We had Girl Scout cookies delivered to the office today and we are all on “supposed” diets…. #notanymore #gonegreek pic.twitter.com/tzI3xvMiOu
— GoneGreek (@GONE_GREEK) February 11, 2015
“@YikYakApp: “How many calories is 3 boxes of Girl Scout cookies? Just asking for a friend.” — UNC Charlotte” my school everybody.
— We’re all mad here. (@xximperfection1) February 8, 2015
when I get home I expect Girl Scout cookies and a peanut butter, banana smoothie on my bed
— kellyann :’) (@kellbell0123) February 4, 2015
my life consist of sitting on the couch eating Girl Scout cookies and watching reruns of law and order
— Chassidy (@Chhaaassss) January 23, 2015
Let’s be clear TSA guy….I’d go on the no fly list for Girl Scout cookies before I gave them to you
— Will Biestek (@Bee_Stick) April 13, 2014
C5’s Take
This product is brilliant. At only $4 a box, it’s an easy sell. And, they’re awesome. They’ve got our business every year, diet or not.
Photos: Ross Hailey/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT, girlscouts.org, itunes.
This story was originally published February 16, 2015 at 12:34 AM with the headline "Diet busted: Girl Scout cookies are here."