Comments on: When Did the Girl Scouts Start Selling Cookies?

By: denise brewer

denise brewer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:27:24 +0000

I am am 40 years old and was a girlscout but i dont remember the samoas being around when i used to sell the cookies is this a newer flavor if so how old is it

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:43:31 +0000

Happy Birthday Girl Scouts * 100 years * March 12, 2012
Look for a friendship circle or Promise circle at a local library on this day

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:40:16 +0000

Girl Scouts were actually called Girl Guides of America for a very short time. I am sure this is because our founder was a leader in Scotland before she brought the idea here and they were/are Girl Guides there.

By: Pamela Jarvis

Pamela Jarvis — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:13:06 +0000

Back in the 50′s when I was a scout I would go door to door by myself. Those days are over, but I was motivated…did not want to show up at a meeting with unsold boxes.

By: Willybee

Willybee — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:45:30 +0000

YAY Thin Mints !!! Loved Samoas too, but haven’t seen them in over twenty years. Have been to the FFV Bakery (Fine Foods of Virginia, and one other bakery….
But I don’t recall any Girl Scouts about for as many years…It’s usually their Moms buttonholing you in the Office, taking your orders….sometimes never even meet the kids…

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:43:44 +0000

My favorites are Carmel Delights (or Samoas as I’ve recently learned they’re also called). I visited Juliette Gordon Lowe’s house this summer in Savannah and was as disappointed as Susan Orlean not to find Girl Scout cookies in the gift shop!

By: Katherine Keena

Katherine Keena — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:13:12 +0000

You have misspelled Daisy’s last name. Low, not Lowe!

By: debbi gerecke

debbi gerecke — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:40:51 +0000

forgot to mention that i won a ‘song writing contest’ for the cookie drive one year…

(to the tune of “make new friends”…a classic girl scout song)

girl scout cookies
are the best
north and south
and east and west…..

By: debbi gerecke

debbi gerecke — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:38:36 +0000

our scout troop was always the one that sold the most boxes of cookies of all the san francisco troops when i was in scouting (age 6 thru 20…i went on to be the asst.leader of the troop i was in after i graduated)

one of my tricks was to buy a box of each kind from my allowance (they were 50 cents a box back then) and then i would cut up the cookies and offer samples as i went door to door in my neighborhood…

we also had a very good connection (the leader’s nephew was the manager!) with the fanciest, most expensive grocery store in town and we sold there every day after school and all day on weekends…..we seldom had to pay to go to camp….

my favorites are, of course, thin mints…but i also like the peanut butter sandwich cookies (they’ve changed names over the years!) and the lemon shortbread cookie they had many years ago…..

i’m eagerly awaiting the time when my 3 little granddaughters will call me to ask me if i “wanna buy a box of girl scout cookies?”….but that’s a few years off yet….

By: susie

susie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:46:13 +0000

Thanks for the nostalgia. I sold many boxes as a Girl Scout and helped my daughter’s troop reach their lofty sales goals as well. No matter what flavors come and go, we always order Thin Mints and Tag A Longs….can’t wait!

By: Laura Helmuth

Laura Helmuth — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:56:18 +0000

Thanks very much for the catch, Hope! We revised the text.

By: Hope Yancey

Hope Yancey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:42:46 +0000

I enjoyed this post about Girl Scout cookies, and it’s that time of year again. I think I’d have to say my favorite flavor would be Thin Mints; I like desserts with a combination of chocolate and peppermint. When I was a little girl, probably a Brownie Girl Scout, I recorded a radio commercial promoting Girl Scout cookie sales. Later, as an adult, I was a staff member at a Girl Scout council for a time. A small side note: I believe the official name of the national organization is Girl Scouts of the USA. (When I worked in Girl Scouting, people often confused the name – I think it might have been because the Boy Scouts are Boy Scouts of America.)