Mmmm… Cookies
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time again, that season when the parents of doe-eyed little girls save their daughters from going door to door by marketing cookies at work and to relatives. There are two boxes of peanut butter cookies awaiting me in a client’s office; immediate gratification. I won’t be able to afford like 14 boxes during cookie season this year, but Deb has a request in for thin mints and Samoas that are no longer called Samoas because that would be culturally insensitive or something. In addition to the work ones, my grandniece is selling cookies, so if we can, we’ll order some from her. Money is tight enough that each box of cookies is especially precious this year.
Speaking of Samoas, and the point of this post besides a generic observation of the season for legal, addictive sweets, we managed to save a box of cookies for an entire year. Wow! I have done it before, keeping a box of thin mints at the office more than a year.
Well, here’s some advice: It works for thin mints. It doesn’t work for Samoas, or whatever whey are called to avoid being called to account by the more sensitive, power-crazed, victimhood activist types. The not-Samoas are in a plastic tray, not merely a plastic sleeve. After a year, they have become imbued with the flavor of the tray. Yuck! So it is that we threw out an entire box less two cookies that told us all we needed to know. Very sad.
Take it from us; devour the cookies formerly known as Samoas immediately.
Wait. When did they change the name of the Best Cookies in the World? I missed that news.
Posted by jen on 01/18 at 12:02 PMSometime in the last several seasons, I believe...they’re now called Caramel something or others. Delites?
Posted by Deb on 01/18 at 12:04 PMMy thin mints don’t last longer than a day. I devour those things! Thank goodness GS cookies aren’t sold year-round. I’d be in big trouble, both financially and physically.
Posted by Amanda on 01/18 at 12:12 PMYou mean Girl Scout Cookies last longer than the day they are delivered. Very Interesting!
Posted by on 01/18 at 01:38 PMThin Mints taste best in August, just pulled out from the freezer. YUM! Besides, as a troop leader, I get plenty of time to prep for our troop sale.
Posted by Kate on 01/18 at 02:15 PMI must confess, I have an unfinished box of Thin Mints which has been sitting out on my kitchen table since before Christmas. What is wrong with me?!
Posted by Paul Burgess on 01/19 at 09:05 AMquick paul, put them in the freezer!
Mmmmm thin mints.... they’re good for years in the freezer (we found some buried in the back when we moved in June and they were fabulous)
Posted by caltechgirl on 01/19 at 09:15 AM
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