Dulce De Leche & Thank U Berry Munch go the way of the Edsel as Girl Scouts cut back on cookies

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Cookie cutbacks! Girl Scouts axe two cookie flavors



Dulce De Leche (left) and Thank U Berry Munch Girl Scout cookies are getting pulled in a dozen areas across the country as part of a new pilot program.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/04/pf/girl_scout_cookies_cut/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin

By Catherine Clifford, staff reporterFebruary 5, 2011: 8:30 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's that time of year again: Girl Scout cookie season. But some cookie monsters won't be able to get their favorites.

The Dulce De Leche and the Thank U Berry Munch cookies are being pulled from the menu in various cities across the country, according to Michelle Tompkins, spokeswoman for Girl Scouts of the USA.

The group's most popular cookies -- Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-Dos, Trefoils and Lemon Chalet Cremes -- will still be available everywhere.

The great cookie massacre is happening as part of a pilot program in 12 regions to cut down the cookie menu. Girl Scout councils don't want to have to deal with a surplus of less popular cookies.

[hlthe2b]

1. So, how many cookies per box this year...

I can't help but laugh when I think back to what we used to sell when I was that age. More like a mini cookie sampler. ;) Yup, I'll still buy them, though.... Go figure.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I read (here, BTW) about GS troops who were opting out of the cookie bidness

in protest over budget cutbacks that affect campouts. I agree with their decision, as camping is perhaps the prime reason for their existence - not fundraising.

[leveymg]

3. Save the Samoans!

If they discontinue them, that would be the end of western civilization as we like it!