To the Girl Scout Cookies Name Change
Dear Girl Scout Cookies Name Change,
Would a Samoa by any other name taste as caramel and delicious? Hell no!
Name Change, I despise you. Look, Girl Scouts are a feisty bunch, and courage is one of the founding virtues of their organization, so don’t expect them to take this sitting down. Any day now, they’ll join me in the streets to stand their ground against this injustice. I don’t care what sinister central reorganization is at work, but I refuse to eat these cookies by any other name.
Your internal cookie wars mean nothing to me, but look: a Samoa is not the same as a Caramel deLite. It just isn’t. It’s not as goofy, and therefore will not taste as good. The vaguely racist associations were part of the fun of the cookies - and now you won’t even let me have that.
Peanut Butter Patties instead of Tagalongs? Are you kidding me? We already have Peppermint Patties. You can’t just change the adjective and have an entirely different cookie name. What next? Chocolate Chip Patties? Oatmeal Patties? No, we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere, so here it is.
And finally, Do-si-dos? Now, this was a cute, humble, inoffensive name, and now you want me to call it a Peanut Butter Sandwich? You can’t be serious! Do you know what “Peanut Butter Sandwich” is a good name for? For a peanut butter sandwich.
Look, I’m serious, Name Change, change those names back, or I’ll start buying cookies from the Boy Scouts.
By Leonard H.
March 21st, 2008 | 07:18 am | Rants
15 Responses to “To the Girl Scout Cookies Name Change”
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:23 am
WTF!?! This is bullsh*t. I’m writing my congressman.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:26 am
NOOoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooOOOOOOOOo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is nothing sacred????????
March 21st, 2008 at 7:28 am
Boy scouts don’t sell cookies…..do they?
March 21st, 2008 at 7:28 am
Peanut Butter Patties sounds waayyyyy more fattening than Tagalongs. I will NOT be purchasing them.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:30 am
I agree with Winifred. Way more fattening sounding.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:13 am
I agree with Vlad. Where are the boy scout cookies? They’re just so tasty…
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:51 am
I will eat these cookies no matter what they are called. I live for those Samoas.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Actually, the Girl Scouts have 2 different bakers: ABC bakers (Caramel DeLite) and Little Brownie bakers (Samoa). The name difference is simply between the two companies. Every Girl Scout service unit has to pick a baker, and if your local service unit has switched bakers that could account for the name change. Try buying cookies from the girls a few towns over if you feel that strongly about it.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Did u know they don’t even bake the stuff in the USA?
March 25th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
There were some Girl Scouts outside my local walmart a few weeks ago selling cookies. I hadn’t planned on buying any (if I wanted cookies I could have got Oreo inside)….but the um..little scouts mother was HOT…so I bought a boxed and used the opportunity to chat up mommy for a moment or two. I don’t recall the actual ‘name’ of the cookies, only that they were chocolate chip. It was later that night before I opened the box up and tried one….to discover that it was easily one of the worst cookies I had ever tasted ranking just below the burnt oatmeal cookies I made for my class party in 4th grade.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
thank you nyssa. it pissed me off when i was a little girl and people would get mad at me for having the wrong named cookies. the cookies are the same damn it. the differences are all in your head. even the boxes are the same.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:29 am
They come from different cookie companies dipsh*t; there is not one giant cookie company that makes all the Girl Scout cookies.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:34 am
then they should work on their branding!! mcdonalds gets their stuff from a lot of different places too, but it’s not a n apple pie in one place and an pie o’apples in another. lame.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Seriously, girl scouts, work on your branding! You guys are just plain IDIOTS.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Se torna dificil colocar muebles en un piso con dimensiones peque