Dear Girl Scout Cookies,
Once a year you come into our lives. Once. When spring finally comes around, it’s a fight to the death for that last Thin Mint.
For the Girl Scouts, it’s an opportunity to become young entrepreneurs and learn more about handling money. And for their mothers, it’s an opportunity to show off their child. The daughters that were signed up, partially against their wills, won’t be the ones selling the cookies. It’s their mothers that do the talking and taking of the money. Honestly, it’s quite scary for a young Brownie or Daisy Scout to deal with you, Girl Scout Cookies. Although there are some very outgoing girls within a troop, it can become very intimidating to the rest of the girls to talk to complete strangers; however, there isn’t much talking that needs to be said, as the cookies sell themselves.
Whether it’s Thin Mints or Tagalongs, the cookies are known for their distinct flavors and fun names. Each flavor is distinctive and cannot be repeated by off brand offenders; however, one flavor that should be added to your arsenal, Girl Scout Cookies, is something that is gluten free. Think about the hundreds of people that have allergies to gluten, or even dairy, that could then become your loyal customers, if you actually had a flavor they could have.
Everyone has a favorite flavor of you Girl Scout Cookies. And whenever one opens a package, it’s hard to stick to the serving size of only two of your cookies, and not consume a whole sleeve. Yet, with the packaging of Girl Scout Cookies, it’s best to consume all of the cookies at once since they do not have a well sealing package, like Oreos or other packaged cookies. If the sleeves were individually packaged, in plastic, then one wouldn’t have to worry about the beloved cookies going stale. On the other hand, then the cookies wouldn’t get consumed as rapidly and people wouldn’t be rushing about to every grocery store to find the next troop for a fresh supply.
Location is also key for finding the best of you, Girl Scout Cookies. Not that the cookies themselves are different, but with inner incentives, troops can get competitive and even harsh towards other troops trying to stake out another troop’s territory. Local places, like the campus quad, Brock Commons, the grocery stores or movie theatres, can be prime real estate for a troop to sell hundreds of boxes of you, in the span of a few hours.
It’s hard to stay angry at you, Girl Scout Cookies. One blames you for their new love handles, or having to stay at the gym longer. How can one stay mad when there is always some new adventure to be had with you? Getting inventive in the kitchen can give more motivation to get back out there and buy more of you. Adding some crushed up cookies to ice cream or a frosting, is a new way to impress friends at a gathering. Or just putting one’s Thin Mints into the freezer to have a new twist, on their already-addicting taste, can be a way to add some creativity to you.
Oh, Girl Scout Cookies, you always find ways into our hearts and stomachs, even if your season is so short.
Hugs and Kisses,
Hungry college students everywhere
