Girl Scout cookies. Worst?

#1

My favorite used to be Caramel delites or “Samoas”. I would eat a whole box. So today I had 2. They were fine but not as tasty In my mouth as They were in my mind. 19g of carbs for two small cookies. The ingredients list is a disaster. And we train all these young girls to sell this junk

Sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid),vegetable oil shortening (modified palm kernel, modified palm, hydrogenated coconut and soybean bean oils), sweetened condensed milk (milk, sugar), high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, cocoa, sorbitol, whey (milk), glycerine, salt, soy lecithin, leavening, natural and artificial flavor.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #2

@Fracmeister You need to get out more. Of course, you won’t get these from the real girl scouts…

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:cookie: The real girl scouts don’t have gin and fresca either.

#3

I won’t argue that

(Brandy) #4

A timely post. One of my daughters is a Girl Scout and so of course, we buy several boxes a year. Since going Keto two years ago(only one in my family), my stipulation has been that they can bring in any flavor except Samoas. It’s too much. They’re my Kryptonite.

This year my husband bought two boxes of Samoas, probably thinking that after all this time, it wouldn’t be a struggle for me. But in a moment of childish rebellion I ate one the other day. It was disgusting. They’re just overly sweet, cardboard like chemical bombs. The good news is that whatever coveting I did about those damn cookies is now totally dissolved.

Not sure why I’m so surprised at my experience. It’s not a new one. There are loads of foods that I previously ate as “favorites” that I simply don’t like anymore. They don’t taste like food. For example, we have a tradition of going to dim sum in our International District every other Christmas. Last year I was excited to have an “exception” day to eat all my favorite dishes and baskets and celebrate this holiday food tradition with my family. I used to be able to pound that stuff. I couldn’t eat it.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

That’s why Michael Pollan calls them “edible, food-like substances.” :bacon:

#6

Girl scouts sell their cookies at the worst time. Why not sell them in the fall instead of at the peak of New Year’s resolutions? I’ve never understood that.