Chocolate chip cookies are made from chocolate chips.
Sugar cookies are made with an unholy amount of sugar.
And Girl Scout Cookies are...well...are they made from Girl Scouts? (sorry old joke) I don't know how to make a thin mint. If I did, it would most certainly turn into a thick mint. I don't know anyone who eats one at a time. COMBINE TWO ALREADY! Why do they taste so good from the freezer? Life's joys simultaneously exist as life's mysteries.
I used to love baking cookies with my grandmother. Pretty sure I loved cookies so anything involving cookies or the process by which to obtain cookies was fine by me. We made snicker doodles mostly.
I learned about cooking.
I learned how to read a recipe.
I learned and reinforced math skills.
Baking is a great adult/child interactive activity.
It's odd. I never made a Tagalong or a Somoa or a Trefoil. The Girl Scouts of America is inventing cookies.
Side Note: Trefoils are a waste of time and money. Short Bread? What is that? There's your clue.
Other Side Note: Girl Scouts ARE NOT inventing cookies. The corporation known as The Girl Scouts of America...IS.
Problem! Actual really real Girl Scouts aren't creating, baking and in many cases aren't even selling for one of the best money making schemes in America. Why are adults, parents, aunts, anyone over 5 feet tall selling me these cookies. What is wrong with you, America? This is supposed to be about the kids.
I no mathmatist, but follow me on this.
They can bake over 4 million Thin Mints per day. (A stat I actually looked up)
If there are a measly 4 Thin Mints per box
and a box costs $4.
I am lost already. I blame the vodka, but that's a heckuva lot of money. Where does it all go? Its definately not the the actual really real scouts themselves. Its for the highly overpaid heads of the cookie empire and the minions that surround them. I shouldn't even be telling you this.
I've put us all in great danger.
The only remaining and somewhat redeemable aspect of this enterprise is the adorable cookie peddlers themselves. I refuse to buy the cookies from adults. Please do not hand me a order form at work or anywhere else for that matter. The girls could be learning...
sales
marketing
money handling
merchandising
the list goes on.
I will not buy your daughters cookies from you. I will not buy your nieces cookies from you. I WILL ONLY BUY GIRL SCOUT COOKIES FROM GIRL SCOUTS!!! Why am I the only one who cares these girls are being used as a sales front for corporate America?
Here is what I propose. Buy some ingredients and make some cookies as a... I DONT KNOW...call it a "Girl Scout activity" and then sell those cookies for outrageous profits if you like. Teach the girls about the supply chain and supply and demand. Teach them about entrepreneurship and free enterprise. Teach them to create and to dream. They have a lifetime left to be slave to the corporate machine. That sounds like a pretty easy recipe to me.
For the record: I have never turned down a girl scout in person and none have attempted telemarketing calls. I love thin mints as previously discussed and my freezer is currently empty.
