Friday, January 30, 2009
Foods Girl Scout Cookie Quiz
Posted by Carrington Fox on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:45 AM
In order of popularity, guess which Girl Scout Cookies sell the most. The answers are after the jump.
But before we go there, let me ask: What kind of Girl Scout Cookie person are you? I'm Samoas all the way. I can see breaking from the gluttonous ring of coconut, caramel and chocolate every now and then to cleanse my palate or freshen my breath with a Thin Mint. Or possibly using a Tagalong or Do-Si-Do as a nutritional supplement in lieu of peanut butter and jelly.
But for the love of Juliette Gordon Lowe, who orders Trefoils? And these new Lemon Chalet Cremes? Seriously? Can anyone make a case for these?
Meanwhile, if you don't have your own Girl Scout Cookie connection, click here to locate one in your area.
And now for the results...
Thin Mints 25%
Samoas®/Caramel deLites™ 19%
Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs® 13%
Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos™ 11%
Shortbread/Trefoils 9%
Other varieties combined account for the remaining 23%.
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I heart Samoas and also like the Tag-a-Longs but last year noticed that the peanut butter tasted fake to me. Who knows, could have been a bad batch or just overly sensitive taste buds. This year I am pregnant and ordered way too many boxes. But I have dreams about ripping into those Samoas when they get here.
Samoas are without a doubt the crown jewel of the collection. But... regarding Trefoils... you just need to put one in a glass of milk, wait a minute, and scoop it out with a spoon and eat it to understand the attraction. Delicious.
i am one of the freakish few who hate thin mints. (i know, it's downright un-american.) my faves are samoas and peanut butter patties, which are especially good when you freeze them.
Thin mints and thin mints only.
I read a story the other day - was it here? - that they're putting fewer cookies in the boxes this year.
It's all about the Samoas and then the Thin Mints.
Samoa fan tip: Dollar General's private label Clover Valley has a Samoa-esque chocolate, caramel, coconut cookie available year round in your local DG that makes a nice Samoa substitute in the 11 months of the year the Girl Scout version is not available.
I like to stand a frozen Thin Mint vertically between my back teeth and bite down with precise steadiness in a way that pops the top sheet of chocolate off. It's hard, and it requires practice, and I'm prepared to put the time in to get it right.
Carrington thanks for making this a safe place to share Thin Mint consumption tricks. Now I can come out: I pour a glass of milk nearly to therim,. Then I bite a tooth-width nibble from one side of a thin mint, then the side opposite it. Then I use it as a straw on the milk. Give it a few seconds to soften, then you can drink the milk through the cookie.
Samoas all the way. I do enjoy a few Thin Mints, but I can eat through a box of Samoas quicker than any other snack on the face of universe.
Also, did anyone try out Candy Cane Joe-Joe's from Trade Joe's during the holiday season? They were a great replacement for Thin Mints, but didn't hold up to a frozen Thin Mint.
Ditto. Man, I can eat those Samoas so fast I bet I could ingest more Samoa calories than Baskin-Robbins Oreo shake calories in a 5 minute time trial, because Samoas don't give you brain-feeze.
well, if there's a merit badge for responsibility, I'll earn mine by taking the rap for liking Trefoils. Long before you could find Walker's shortbread any day of the week at Marshall's and back when Lorna Doone's were hard to find or just too expensive to make it on our micro-budget grocery list, they were a shortbread oasis in a blechy chips ahoy cookie world. There's not even a slice and bake option for shortbread, you had to take 'em where you could get 'em.
And Do-Si-Dos were the closest thing to hard to find Gaucho.
everyone else can eat all the thin mints and samoas and tagalongs they want, I'll stick with the boxes less selected by, and that has made all the difference...
Hell yeah, fluffernutter. Ever since my wife made me do the thin-mint-as-milk-straw trick, Girl Scout cookie time has been like 1,000 times more enjoyable. I didn't think it was possible to improve upon perfection. But then I was shown the light.
What a relief. I was reading the comments out of order, and I thought Fluffernutter was describing the way to eat blowfish testicles.
Samoas. Truth to power.
When I was stuck in the Cincinnati bus depot during an ice storm in early 1993, my traveling companions (whom I had just met a few hours previous) and I were kvetching about being hungry. One of the guys in the group - college age, attending Carson Newman - said, "I have something for that" and proceeded to pull out box after box of Tagalongs. "My mom is a Girl Scout troop leader, and she packed these away for me."
Needless to say, I don't think I really want to eat a Tagalong again, but at the time it was heavenly. I mean, I think he had 10 boxes or something. Scott, if you're out there, thanks.
SL -- I'll eat trefoils, too, if there's nothing else containing sugar in the house, and if there's tea. They really are a cookie for pairing with a beverage, where the other cookies are dessert. Trefoils would taste better if they were made with butter, like shortbread is supposed to be.
I'm saving the blowfish testicle eating post for Valentine's day.
Fluffernutter, the Thin Mint straw is an amazing development! Like an American Tim Tam Slam http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2009/01/tim_tams_make_their_american_d.php
I can only imagine if you used hot chocolate instead of milk...
Speaking of warm, a couple Samoas in a bowl microwaved for about 15 seconds makes a delicious gooey treat.
My GS cookie order this year consisted of a box of Tagalongs and a box of Trefoils. There's nothing wrong with a simple, classic cookie for just a bite o' sweet. Thin Mints are fine, just wasn't feelin' 'em this year. Don't like Samoas, really ... too much "stuff" and not enough cookie.
Oh! For those of you who are Samoa lovers, us bakers at Fido make a lovely Samoa-esque treat called the Magic Cookie Bar (graham cracker crust, chocolate chips, condensed milk, coconut and walnuts baked into a yummy bar). Expect it to beat out even a Samoa in the fattening category, but my god, it is tasty.
So, when it's not GS cookie season and you're looking for a sugar fix, try it out. (I'm sure all your Samoas were probably gone within a few weeks of buying those dozen or so boxes.)
My family has been known to hoard save boxes of Thin Mints in the freezer until fall, when they get brought along on camping trips and made an essential part of our S'mores.
Samoas are still my favorite, even though you only get maybe 15 in a box, compared to almost double that in a box of Thin Mints.
The Girl Scouts (like the Boy Scouts) discriminate against homosexuals. As such, I do not purchase cookies from them.
Samoas are my favorite, but I'll admit, I also like the Shortbread cookies!! They have a great buttery taste. I came home from work one day and noticed that my boyfriend ate an ENTIRE sleeve in one sitting. I was so mad.
for all the trefoil fans out there, a timely article (with recipes, natch) from LATimes.com regarding the simplicity that is (apparently) shortbread, and suggestions for variations. (Claudia and Joy, once again, the flour makes a difference!)
you may have to register to read, but since it's free, how can it not be worth it? (Plus, you'll get to experience one of the greatest local newspapers ever, before they all go the way of the rotary dial desk phone.
I Click for Shortbread
or paste this if the ol' HTML tag memory ain't what she used to be...
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-shortbread4-2009feb04,0,3911601.story
I'm eating Dollar General Mint Thins right now and I honestly want my girl scout money back... I can't tell the difference, which is why I started looking for info on the Clover Valley brand, which lead me to this. I bought a box of the peanut butter knock offs as well... we'll see! For 1.85... they are even better than the real Thin Mints!
