A very important, groundshakingly urgently important poll to end all polls

[LucyStoner]

Now that the season has come for adorable girls to hawk us cookies, what is your favorite, go to flavor?

 

I may have eaten a whole row of Samoas after lunch today.

[Melissa in Australia]

something else- as there was no spot to vote never having tried any girl scout cookies. There is no girl scouts in my area and I don't even know if they do the whole sell cookies thing in Australia.

[MelAR05]

I'm guessing that Lemonades are what we call Savannah Smiles. I just tried them for the first time this year. Yum!

[KrissiK]

Two words... Thin Mints.

[Forget-Me-Not]

Hello?  Samoas.  Is there really any other kind?

 

:D

[Slache]

I voted for me (thin mints are diet right? That's why there called "thin"?), but hubby says pinatas.

[Audrey]

There are only Thin Mints. 

 

 

Period.

 

 

I said, PERIOD.

[kitten18]

I'm guessing that Lemonades are what we call Savannah Smiles. I just tried them for the first time this year. Yum!

I heard that there's a different lemon cookie in other areas. We have Savannah smiles here and they are my favorite too!!!

 

The GF cookie is really good. It's a shortbread with a texture similar to a Keebler Pecan Delight, with little toffee pieces.

[In The Great White North]

Thin Mints.

 

Shortbreads/Trefoils used to be good too (about 30 years ago) but now they taste pretty much like very dry cardboard.

[felicity]

Actually Lemonades and Savannah Smiles are different. Sav Smiles are a crispy lemon cookie covered in powdered sugar. Lemonades I rhink have creamy lemon in between two cookies. We used to have Savannah Smiles here but got rid of them for Rah Rah Raisins. Between that, a price increase, and the current Thin Mint shortage, our my girls' troops are off at lease 20% this year.

[SKL]

I said thin mints, because I remember how they taste from long ago.  I do not buy or eat GS cookies though.

[Slache]

So far it looks as though everyone that eats thin mints is right and everyone else is wrong.

[hornblower]

We don't have Girl Scouts. Scouting is co-ed here.

We do have Girl Guides but there's little variety & none of their cookies are vegan so sadly, none.

in the US you have some vegan options...

[applethyme]

I used to love Girl Scout cookies but the last few years they have all tasted  yucky.  I'm not sure if it is changes in the recipes or ingredients but I find them very disappointing. 

[Excelsior! Academy]

I abhor thin mints. Belch. What is wrong with you people?!?

 

 

Trefoils are the only Girl Scout cookie worth eating.

 

To the person upthread that said they ate a row, Ha! I can eat a whole box in one sitting and stash another one for later in the day!

[Tap]

Other, I do not support the GS organization due to the way they violated contracts on land my family donated to them.  I have eaten cookies that others have bought at work and think they are just overpriced cookies.  Even without the land issue, I would not buy them.  I donate cash to organizations I support so they get the full value, not a few dollars earned on the backs of the girls and their parents.

[Ali in OR]

If I can only get one box, it will be thin mints. But I can get 4 boxes, so it's one each of thin mints, samoas, tagalongs, and the powdered sugar lemon one--can't remember what it was called. That's what I have on order.

 

Dd was a brownie/girl scout. We bought extra boxes to sell, so it was important to guess the popularity correctly. Thin mints are the obvious favorite--I think I ordered twice as much of those as anything else and sold them all easily. Samoas would be second.

[Tsuga]

I cannot believe thin mints are the winners. Tagalongs for sure. 

 

Tap... I agree with you in principle. But my neighbors are selling this year... 

[fdrinca]

I don't at all understand why people like Thin Mints so much. The only reason we get them is because DH is more of a value over satisfaction guy.

 

I'm all for Tagalongs. 

 

I dislike the dual namings. It feels like part of my childhood mythology has been ripped away, knowing that swaths of people hunger for "Caramel DeLights" while we all KNOW they are called Samoas. The first time I heard the alternate namings, I thought for sure I was being hawked knock-off cookies.

[foxbridgeacademy]

I'm not much of a cookie/candy type person but I love Do-si-dos.  I know there are knock offs available at the store year round but it's not the same.

[JBJones]

The ones called Thanks-A lot. A butter cookie that has  chocolate on one side. Yum.

[Rosie_0801]

something else- as there was no spot to vote never having tried any girl scout cookies. There is no girl scouts in my area and I don't even know if they do the whole sell cookies thing in Australia.

 

They do, but not all those flavours!

 

You should all send Melissa a box of each and I'll come and help her decide which is best so we can vote.

[Grover]

wow... Girl Guides here sell plain (wine biscuit) or in recent years they have developed a chocolate dipped version.  That's it.

 

I love these names.  But I hate that they give absolutely no indication of what they are.  Samoas?  Savannahs?  Tagalongs?  Do-si-do?  NO IDEA what I'm getting.

 

SO... who's sending the antipodeans a sample of all of the nut free varieties?

[Pawz4me]

I've only tasted a few varieties of GS cookies, but I've been totally underwhelmed by all of them.  I don't get the fuss at all.  But I'm not a huge cookie lover in general.

[Joyofsixreboot]

I voted nonsense because there can be no one favorite. I will say mint is my least favorite. Blech. If they come up with a Carmel pb patty lemonade I'm there.

[Carrie12345]

Tagalongs. From the Little Brownie Bakery, not that ABC place that makes fraudulent "Peanut Butter Patties"!!!

 

I am actually in crisis.  I can no longer find LB brand GS cookies locally.  Or even regionally!  That is what I grew up on, that is what I sold, and that is what I NEED.  But my region seems to be all ABC now. I am actually about to have my mother ship me LB brand cookies from 800 miles away (supporting her troop - I'm not entirely insane.)

[Carrie12345]

I don't at all understand why people like Thin Mints so much. The only reason we get them is because DH is more of a value over satisfaction guy.

 

I'm all for Tagalongs. 

 

I dislike the dual namings. It feels like part of my childhood mythology has been ripped away, knowing that swaths of people hunger for "Caramel DeLights" while we all KNOW they are called Samoas. The first time I heard the alternate namings, I thought for sure I was being hawked knock-off cookies.

 

They ARE knock offs (the way I see it.)  They don't come from the same bakery and don't use the same recipe.  It's a travesty.

[kewb]

I haven't bought girl scout cookies in years but when I did it was thin mints for the win. Frozen with a little ice cream. Yum.

I also like samoas.

 

My dh likes whichever one is the peanut butter cookie.

[Night Elf]

Lemon cookies, Savannah Smiles. Although there really isn't a Girl Scout cookie I don't like. I could eat them all. But I only bought a box of lemon cookies for myself, thin mints for DH, and tagalongs for dd16. I can't believe they are $4 a box!

[JFSinIL]

Whatever the lemon ones are called, those kind triangle cookies dusted with powdered sugar - they are the BEST!

[jenn-]

I can't eat them anymore, but I am a Tagalong girl. Thin Mints were never my thing, but they are the only ones I can eat now. We just don't buy them though.

[The Girls' Mom]

I voted I don't like them.  BUT this has only been since they changed the recipe several years ago.  They just haven't been the same since. Plus, the GS organization makes me grumpy...lol.

[MrsMommy]

Is this a trick question? They sell anything other than Samoas? I really shouldn't be allowed to have them in the house, ever, because their length of stay in our house is so brief.

 

Oh, and Thin Mints are overrated.

[Chris in VA]

Prob peanut butter ones--not the nasty, slimy Tag-a-longs, though.

 

We have a slogan we repeat around here:

 

Thin Mints--The only cookie in a single-serve box!

 

Yeah. They are popular in our family.

 

I like Samoas, too--just bought Samoa creamer for my coffee this morning.

[BrookValley.]

I won't buy them because they contain a bunch of artificial junk, specifically hydrogenated oils (don't let the "0 grams trans fat!" stuff fool you. It just means there's less than 1 gram of trans fat, not that there isn't hydrogenated gunk in them).

 

BUT--if I did, it would be samoas. (ETA: Isa Chandra Moskowitz has a pretty great vegan knock-off of that cookie in Vegan Cookies Take Over Your Cookie Jar, if anyone is interested in making a version without nasty fats).

[Ravin]

I put "something else" because it's an equal tie between Samoas and thin mints.

[Cinder]

Something else. *My* favorite is usually the lemon creme one--I don't like the lemon with the powdered sugar. I'm not sure which lemon flavor they have here. The price went up this year, so instead of a box each of lemon, Samoas and thin mints I decided just to get the latter 2 because those are most popular among the younger people in this house. I can't stand those flavors so no GS cookies for me this year. Really, though, the dc would be just as happy with the Keebler versions.

[Amira]

There weren't a lot of Girl Scouts in my town when I was growing up so they weren't a thing and now I don't like packaged cookies all that much.  I'm not sure I've ever actually tasted any Girl Scout cookie ever.

[FaithManor]

There was no category for me. Allergic to wheat, as in gastrointestinal pain and rash allergic.

 

So, no GS cookies for me. I suspect that if I were to be in favor of one it would be something with chocolate and peanut butter.

[MomtoCandJ]

I voted thin mints since that's what I like but dh actually bought a case and a half of Somoas

Dd1 just finished selling cookies last month, now it's onto gummy Bears, nuts and magazines

[Firefly]

It's been ages since I've had a Girls Scout cookie, but Thin Mints were my absolute favorite.  There are no others IMNSHO; I only have eyes for the mintly thins.  :001_tt1:

 

(Yes, mintly.  I just made that up. :-P)

[City Mouse]

I am very sad. This is the first year in a very, very long time that I can remember that I have not bought any GS cookies. I was a GS all the way through. My DD was a GS until we moved to this very small town where the nearest older girl troop was 2 hrs away. The last couple of years we had some girls from the neighboring town come sell cookies, but so far this year no one has been here.

[Library Momma]

My DD was a Girl Scout from kindergarten through 6th grade (she's in 7th now) and I was the cookie mom for 4 years.  I voted Samoas.  I would like to vote Savannah Smiles as those really are my favorite but I found a hair baked into one once and haven't been able to eat them since.  Blech.

[gingersmom]

I used to love love thin mints.

 

I ate a whole box this year and was not overly excited.

 

My 50 year love affair with thin mints is coming to an end.

[HRAAB]

I voted for Samoas. The twins are split between Thin Mints and Tagalongs. This is why I spend too much on Girl Scout chips.

[Lady Florida.]

I voted Thin Mints, but I've found that the knock-offs are quite good. Unless I'm supporting a specific Girl Scout (and most of the ones we know are grown now) I just buy the knock-offs.

[jenn-]

There was no category for me. Allergic to wheat, as in gastrointestinal pain and rash allergic.

 

So, no GS cookies for me. I suspect that if I were to be in favor of one it would be something with chocolate and peanut butter.

 

So now would be a bad time to tell you about Trios (their GF PB Chocolate Chip Cookies)

 

[Ipsey]

Thin mints!

 

Yayayyay!

[shawthorne44]

I used to love love thin mints.

 

I ate a whole box this year and was not overly excited.

 

My 50 year love affair with thin mints is coming to an end.

 

I was a girl scout back when they started to allow each region to pick its own cookie manufacturer.   Mine changed their thin mints, and they should have been called Sans Mint.  

 

I get grumpy, though, at the tables at the grocery store.  The girl scouts should do like I did, and deliver cookies to my door, after walking through the snow, uphill both ways.   

[Cinder]

There was no category for me. Allergic to wheat, as in gastrointestinal pain and rash allergic.

 

So, no GS cookies for me. I suspect that if I were to be in favor of one it would be something with chocolate and peanut butter.

 

So now would be a bad time to tell you about Trios (their GF PB Chocolate Chip Cookies)

 

 

In our area the GF cookies are Toffee-tastic.