On Girl Scout Samoas...

[Dr Fate]

I gurantee you I will eat the whole box and not blink...

Do I dectect a hint of SALT in these? yes, I do...Sweet, salty goodness, indeed...

mmmmmm Toasty coconut, "choclaty" stripes...

I just got these from the FREEZER but it dont madda- they wont make it back...

[tedoll78]

1. Wait -

they're still on-sale?!?!?? Where can I get them? Aaaaaaaah!!!

I WANT SOME!! GIMME!!

My boyfriend brought home three boxes after work one Saturday morning. What a proof of love!

I can eat them all weekend long. So damn good! If I were on death row and got to choose a last meal, these would definitely be a part of that meal. So damn good!

Gaaaaah!!!

[Dr Fate]

4. My girlfriend's Ma sent us these...

...I put ALL of them in the FREEZER- they are really good that way...

THIN MINTS are great- but bite them before you dip, or it will absorb poorly, or not at all...

[Catshrink]

10. If you get a craving for thin mints...

mint Oreos are a passable substitute. Not quite the same, but very very addictive.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. You will see girl scouts selling them in grocery stores now.

:hi:

[LastKnight]

2. i can eat double what you can...

any day... feel free to call me on that... we can have an eating competition. you provide the cookies.

-LK

[Enraged_Ape]

3. Samoas own

OMG, it's that time of year again, isn't it?

Thin mints are good, too, but better when crushed up on Blue Bell vanilla ice cream.

I can usually get enough splendiforous flavor out of just three or four Samoas that I don't need to eat any more. So in a sense, they are actually a SLIMMING food. Oh, yes, they are.

[Dr Fate]

5. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...

3 or 4 is just enough to anger me...If I WANT more then I GET MORE. I dont "need" it, I WANT IT....The peanut butter sandwich cookies are in the FREEZER...yes, back-up....

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

6. I like your logic!

Blue Bell ice cream *drooool* they don't sell that in my neck of the woods...now I want some

[jus_the_facts]

7. They're my favorite too....

.....YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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[arwalden]

8. Girl Scouts In Maryland Don't Sell "Samoas". Instead They Are Known As...

"Caramel Delights".

I don't know what the reason for the name change is. Did the Samoan people object?

-- Allen

[Dr Fate]

15. Interesting....

...I never even noticed the caramel- I assumed it was "nuguet"(sp?)...

[HydroAddict]

11. Mints....mmmmm

Sorry to get politcal here in the lounge, but the Girl Scouts have come under attack here in Central Texas.

Sanchez: Abortion foes shouldn't victimize scouts in their fight

Just thought you might want to know.

[Enraged_Ape]

12. Thanks for the info

Since they're being boycotted by fundie wingnuts, the best thing I can do to show my support is buy 3 or 4 extra boxes of Samoas and another box of Thin Mints. It's a sacrifice I'll just have to make.

[Dr Fate]

14. It's good to know that you would put yourself on the line like that...

...I feel the need to follow your example and BUY MORE as well.

No "free-rider" political effect from me!!!!

[Dr Fate]

13. Just a reason to BUY MORE.

And I think I'll do just that...

[Tank in Texas]

16. Speaking of Girl Scout cookies...

Did you guys read this story from Waco, TX. A Baylor U. professor really despises Planned Parenthood and since out local GS were affiliated with a program they run he decided to bully little cookie-selling girls to make his point.

I am the M.B. Tankersley that has a letter quoted at the end of the article.

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Girl Scout cookie boycott urged
Anti-abortion group says Scouts support Planned Parenthood

By JESSIE MILLIGAN

Copyright 2004 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

People in Waco were more than a bit taken aback after turning on a Christian radio station and hearing a community leader call for a boycott of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites.

"I encourage you to join me in abstaining from Girl Scout cookies," John Pisciotta, director of Pro-Life Waco and an associate professor of economics at Baylor University, has been saying for two weeks in public-service announcements running around the clock on KBDE/89.9.

Pisciotta then says the Waco-based Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts supports Planned Parenthood's annual sex education seminars.

The vaguely worded radio announcements are the latest and most public attempt by the group to discourage the Girl Scouts from even a casual affiliation with Planned Parenthood, an international organization that promotes reproductive freedom and provides health care services related to reproduction.

The campaign has caused controversy in the community and confusion among some Girl Scout troops.

"This foisted an adult conversation on a bunch of little innocent girls," Pat Stone, education director of Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, said this week in a phone interview. "It's making them think of things they shouldn't have to worry about."

There have been only a few secondhand reports about adults turning down cookies because "the Girl Scouts support abortion," said Beth Vivio, executive director of the Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts. The comments reportedly were made to scouts, who are between 6 and 18 years old.

Pisciotta said: "I don't take pleasure in upsetting families and upsetting little girls. That is a downside of this. But it did get the conversation going."

The Girl Scouts do not take a position on abortion or sex education, Vivio said. And none of the cookie money earned by the 6,000 girls in the 14-county district goes to Planned Parenthood or any other organization, she said.

The council does, however, put the national Girl Scouts logo on posters for Planned Parenthood of Central Texas' annual summer sex education seminar for fifth- through ninth-graders, an event that 400 to 700 adolescents attend every year.

Although more than 20 other organizations also put their names on the posters, Pro-Life Waco hasn't pursued any of those organizations so aggressively, Pisciotta said.

The group has been trying for years to discourage the Girl Scouts from any affiliation with Planned Parenthood, but in May, when the Bluebonnet Council honored Pam Smallwood, director of Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, with a Woman of Distinction award, the battle was raised to a new level.

"When I saw the head of Planned Parenthood held up as role model to little girls, that was great irritation to me," Pisciotta said. The 40 to 60 members of Pro-Life Waco, who meet monthly, then turned to the cookie tactic.

So far, the fallout has been limited. Two of the 400 Girl Scout troops in the Bluebonnet Council's Central Texas district have reportedly disbanded after learning of the Planned Parenthood connection.

The controversy has made for better cookie sales in Waco.

Vivio said the Girl Scouts expect to sell more than the average 432,000 boxes of cookies during the sale, which runs through February. And the Girl Scouts office has seen more calls and drop-in visitors requesting cookies.

A flurry of letters to the editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald seems to support her assessment: The pro-cookie writers outnumber the writers who favor Pro-Life Waco's campaign.

"You (Pro-Life Waco) just made buying Girl Scout cookies a political statement," wrote M.B. Tankersley of Woodway, "and it's one I am not afraid to make. Thanks for the reminder that we need to support this worthy organization."

[Dr Fate]

17. Eat them BY THE BOX!!!

Lord knows *I* do!!!!

[Zomby Woof]

18. you know why they call them Samoas?

Because when you offer one, you have to ask, "You want samoa?" (Some more?) :D

I will gladly dive nekkid into a vat of Girl Scout cookies.

[lolly]

19. GS Leader checking in . . .

Spent 9 years as a Girl Scout Leader, and 2 as the troop's cookie chairman.

You don't know what temptation is until you've had your living room stacked halfway to the ceiling with Girl Scout cookies!

Wish I knew someone in Waco who could buy some cookies from this council . . . Guess I'll have to do the next best thing and buy more from my daughters this year.

[CanuckAmok]

20. What's all this about Samoan Girl Scouts?

oh...never moind.

[The Lone Liberal]

21. The Cookie Song

tune: This is the Song That Never Ends..

The cookie song that never ends
We're selling cookies here my friends
And if you buy a box of them, or maybe even two,
We'll stop singing long enough for you and you and you
To get yourselves right out the door
After you're gone we'll sing some more.
We'll sell you extra cookies if you want to come right back.
And you can have them later for a little bitty snack.
Samoas, Snaps, and Thin Mints, too,
We've got them all right here for you.
We want to thank you very much for every little thing.
And while we sell our cookies we will sing and sing and sing
The cookie song that never ends
We're selling cookies here my friends.....


(repeat, and repeat, and repeat.....)

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On My Honor
(Girl Scout Cookie Version)

Chorus:
On my honor I will try
To sell Girl Scout cookies all day and night
We'll sell our cookies until they are gone.
Cause there's many more where they come from.


People don't need to know my name
They'll buy my cookies just the same


For three dollars a box, they get quite a treat


When they open their box to eat.

Chorus:


I've tucked away a box or two,
If you buy our cookies you'll have some to.
If you need samoasthen we have some,
And there's plenty more where they came from.

Chorus:


We sell our cookies at the grocery store,
and we even go door to door.
Our Thin Mints, they are really great
So freeze them now before it's too late

Chorus:


We've set a goal that we plan to keep,
To sell fifty boxes before we fall asleep
So buy several boxes so when we're gone,
You can still be munching and singing this song

Chorus:


With our profits we have lots of fun.
We sell and sell nearly a ton.
Were going camping, and horse riding too
and we even get to sleep at the zoo

Chorus:


Our cookie sale lasts only two weeks.


But we have lots of fun with the people we meet.
So buy our cookies before we go.
Cause we won't be back for a year or so.

Chorus:

[Dr Fate]

22. I've set these lyrics to the tune "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"...

very spiritual stuff...