ISO: abc bakers s’mores. The girl scouts around here use little brownie bakers
They look like my son would prefer that than the sandwich style s’mores from lbb. Who’s selling???
Also who has the trios??? I’ve complained to the local Girl Scouts. I’m pretty sure they think I’m an asshole. I think if they are selling these things give us all the choices we want! Not what they think will sell.
Aka I want them
@sammydog01 There was a Nabisco factory in Northeast Philly that finally shut down and was demolished last year. There was an amazing aroma of baking cookies for a mile in all directions.
@sohmageek Sounds like a great opportunity for a cookie swap among the Amehrican nation. Although, my little scout sells the Little Brownie Baker version. So no help here. @aetris According to the local Girl Scout chapter, Cookie Season begins in 2 days.
My area uses little brownie bakers also. I would dearly love to buy lemonade cookies and thank you cookies but I can’t. I’d love to set up a trade with anyone!
@looseneck so I was wrong. We are LBB too, the thank you cookies I was thinking of were the “thank you Berry munch” cookies that are apparently no longer offered. Which is a shame because they were quite good.
Our cookie meeting is tonight. I can’t keep straight which is which. We’re in Ohio and sell Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas… I know the West Coast has different names, which was a bit of a shock when we visited the cousins and were like wth are caramel de lites?
I wish I had taken a picture of it (or at least remembered the product name), but I recently saw a true girl scout knockoff in Kroger’s. I don’t mean simply duplicating the cookie recipe (like Keebler Grasshopper == Thin Mint or Pitter Patter == Do-Si-Dos), but one that was specifically trying to exploit the Girl Scout brand: something like “Girl Explorer Minty Thins” (that most assuredly wasn’t the exact name, but hopefully you get my drift)
@DrWorm what a slimy huckster marketing scheme - so transparently riding on the back of the Girl Scouts… and at the same time in theory stealing sales from them.
I’m surprised Kroger would carry such a product, but then we prefer our local regional, Meijer.
Sounds like it is time to complain to our local Krogers if they carry them.
@RedOak keebler, who is one of the bakeries for girl scout cookies also makes knockoffs. I wish I could find the article where it was explained that it doesn’t hurt their sales.
Not that it isn’t lame that they tried to even steal the marketing. Just make a mint chocolate cookie.
My grocery store, Publix, makes a square chocolate mint cookie that I find much superior. Thin mint quality has gone down in the last ten years, in my opinion.
@RiotDemon I don’t have a problem with companies copying the product as long as they aren’t breaking patents/trademarks/copyrights.
But the photo above does far more than make a similar cookie. They shamelessly trade on the Girl Scout brand/image with that just thinly enough disguised “brand” image.
Isn’t it ironic the girl in the image is hiding her face?
@cinoclav this question probably says more about me than you but did you hesitate before typing in ‘girl mint cookies’ into the Google? I think I probably would have hesitated and then not done it at all.
@elimanningface I tried it and there wasn’t one dirty image. There was a lot of pot though. Apparently there is a marijuana strain called “thin mint girl scout cookies”.
/giphy the more you know
I once tested every bootleg Samoa I could find heads up against the real deal. The keebler ones were inferior but Dollar general’s clover valley brand were very close, only slightly less crisp.
When I was a Brownie and a Junior Girl Scout, cookies were 50 cents a box. Dates me!
They take orders now, people will sell them in February, in front of stores, around here.
@Regina2983 holy shipping charges. The local pack has free shipping with 6 or more boxes…
Thank you! I will get the trios and see if I can recoup some of the shipping by splitting an order at work
@sohmageek I just realized, our council is subsidizing some of the shipping costs. Here’s what customers will pay:
Direct Shipping costs for cookies
1-3 packages - $9.50
4-12 packages - $4.75
13-15 packages - $14.25
16-24 packages - $9.50
25-27 packages - $19.00
28-36 packages - $14.25
Right. I think that’s why the council is subsidizing, because the girls get funds based on the number of boxes not considering shipping. So they are trying to drive the numbers up.
http://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/How-to-Buy.html
will tell you when sales start in your area, and once sales start will tell you where/when girl scouts will be set up selling.
Can find where to buy and then find where to avoid once you have too many cookies and know you can’t say no.
ALREADY?!?
Now wait a minute, I know it’s not that time of year YET or there would be two crates of the things in the vendateria with associated honor boxes.
I think the local council kicks the season off in early February. But man, the local Boy Scouts could clean up right now with hot chocolate!
@aetris the order is going around work right now. So… yeah already.
@sohmageek @aetris It’s not until mid or late January here in the land of Oz. Can’t wait; love those thin mints.
I need more time to digest all those Christmas cookies!
Also who has the trios??? I’ve complained to the local Girl Scouts. I’m pretty sure they think I’m an asshole. I think if they are selling these things give us all the choices we want! Not what they think will sell.
Aka I want them
Cookie time varies by region so the factory makes and sells year round
@CaptAmehrican
there is more than one factory
cookies from councils next door to each other can be different, which is very odd
@Cerridwyn There was a cookie factory here that made Girl Scout cookies. Now it’s condos. I want to move there- I bet it still smells nice.
@sammydog01 There was a Nabisco factory in Northeast Philly that finally shut down and was demolished last year. There was an amazing aroma of baking cookies for a mile in all directions.
@cinoclav Once again, we have a shared past. My father worked off the Boulevard, and we routinely passed that building and it’s olfactorial gift.
@ACraigL I lived for a brief period in NE Philly. Graduated from Washington. That factory is one of my only fond memories of the area.
@sohmageek Sounds like a great opportunity for a cookie swap among the Amehrican nation. Although, my little scout sells the Little Brownie Baker version. So no help here. @aetris According to the local Girl Scout chapter, Cookie Season begins in 2 days.
Can we revisit the original question of who is selling, please? Better question might be where can one buy some?
@elimanningface if you are still looking -
https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/#/shopify-landing/321c5769-65ce-4821-892f-19a535a7a39f
@Regina2983 thank you! Someone suggested Aldi’s for knock-offs but I was unable to find them. Will certainly checkout the link you provided.
My area uses little brownie bakers also. I would dearly love to buy lemonade cookies and thank you cookies but I can’t. I’d love to set up a trade with anyone!
@looseneck I guess that means I have the other factory, because I can get those (and Samoas, not caramel delights)
@djslack @looseneck
https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/#/shopify-landing/321c5769-65ce-4821-892f-19a535a7a39f
There’s 50% discounted shipping after 3 boxes, I think. If you have a LBB link I’d be happy to order from it. I love Savannah Smiles!
@Regina2983 Thanks! Here’s a LBB link: https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/ellie457346
Shipping is weird and tiered, though; they certainly disincentivize ordering 13 boxes but that’s a lot of cookies.
@looseneck so I was wrong. We are LBB too, the thank you cookies I was thinking of were the “thank you Berry munch” cookies that are apparently no longer offered. Which is a shame because they were quite good.
@djslack Oh no! You got me sooooooo excited I couldn’t think straight
@Regina2983
/giphy thanks a lot
Our cookie meeting is tonight. I can’t keep straight which is which. We’re in Ohio and sell Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas… I know the West Coast has different names, which was a bit of a shock when we visited the cousins and were like wth are caramel de lites?
@themutilator That’s what is sold here in Georgia. I adore Samoa’s and Thin Mints!
@themutilator coast is of no consequence, just depends on which supplier a given council is using
I wish I had taken a picture of it (or at least remembered the product name), but I recently saw a true girl scout knockoff in Kroger’s. I don’t mean simply duplicating the cookie recipe (like Keebler Grasshopper == Thin Mint or Pitter Patter == Do-Si-Dos), but one that was specifically trying to exploit the Girl Scout brand: something like “Girl Explorer Minty Thins” (that most assuredly wasn’t the exact name, but hopefully you get my drift)
@DrWorm
@DrWorm what a slimy huckster marketing scheme - so transparently riding on the back of the Girl Scouts… and at the same time in theory stealing sales from them.
I’m surprised Kroger would carry such a product, but then we prefer our local regional, Meijer.
Sounds like it is time to complain to our local Krogers if they carry them.
@cinoclav Yep, that was the one I saw. Did you have to Google that, or had you already seen it and recognized it by my description?
@RedOak keebler, who is one of the bakeries for girl scout cookies also makes knockoffs. I wish I could find the article where it was explained that it doesn’t hurt their sales.
Not that it isn’t lame that they tried to even steal the marketing. Just make a mint chocolate cookie.
My grocery store, Publix, makes a square chocolate mint cookie that I find much superior. Thin mint quality has gone down in the last ten years, in my opinion.
@RiotDemon I don’t have a problem with companies copying the product as long as they aren’t breaking patents/trademarks/copyrights.
But the photo above does far more than make a similar cookie. They shamelessly trade on the Girl Scout brand/image with that just thinly enough disguised “brand” image.
Isn’t it ironic the girl in the image is hiding her face?
Hucksters.
@DrWorm Did a quick Google search for ‘girl mint cookies’ and there it was.
@cinoclav this question probably says more about me than you but did you hesitate before typing in ‘girl mint cookies’ into the Google? I think I probably would have hesitated and then not done it at all.
@elimanningface I tried it and there wasn’t one dirty image. There was a lot of pot though. Apparently there is a marijuana strain called “thin mint girl scout cookies”.
/giphy the more you know
@elimanningface Nah, didn’t think twice about it. And I was at work at the time!
I once tested every bootleg Samoa I could find heads up against the real deal. The keebler ones were inferior but Dollar general’s clover valley brand were very close, only slightly less crisp.
check out this map – do we know anyone in dallas fort worth area?? (2017 updated)
http://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/
When I was a Brownie and a Junior Girl Scout, cookies were 50 cents a box. Dates me!
They take orders now, people will sell them in February, in front of stores, around here.
@Calabama I was the first year my state offered Daisys
@Calabama I want some of those four flavor shorties. Sounds good!
@djslack
Sorry, they don’t keep THAT long!
I would, if I could!
@Calabama the senior uniforms look like flight attendants
@jbartus They do! By Senior GS we did not wear uniforms, Junior either. I would have never worn those!
Aldi has fakes that are great and available year round.
ABC here - the good S’mores, Lemonades, Trios and Thanks a Lot
https://www.abcsmartcookies.com/#/shopify-landing/321c5769-65ce-4821-892f-19a535a7a39f
@Regina2983 summoning @sohmageek
@jbartus I put the notifications on this thread
@Regina2983 holy shipping charges. The local pack has free shipping with 6 or more boxes…
Thank you! I will get the trios and see if I can recoup some of the shipping by splitting an order at work
@sohmageek I just realized, our council is subsidizing some of the shipping costs. Here’s what customers will pay:
Direct Shipping costs for cookies
1-3 packages - $9.50
4-12 packages - $4.75
13-15 packages - $14.25
16-24 packages - $9.50
25-27 packages - $19.00
28-36 packages - $14.25
@Regina2983 I was just reading the manual and saw this.
@Regina2983 wait… if i buy three boxes shipping is almost $10, but if i buy four, it’s only 4 something? Who just wouldn’t buy another box?
Right. I think that’s why the council is subsidizing, because the girls get funds based on the number of boxes not considering shipping. So they are trying to drive the numbers up.
Casemate mehmbers may be interested in this:
http://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/How-to-Buy.html
will tell you when sales start in your area, and once sales start will tell you where/when girl scouts will be set up selling.
Can find where to buy and then find where to avoid once you have too many cookies and know you can’t say no.
@metaphore only four days until sales start here.
Willing to pay shipping? Or are you in the northern VA area? I have a friend selling right now. And she had s’mores