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The Girl Scout Cookie Scam

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Ron Collins

Ron Collins

Curiously Confused
Alright, now I usually do not engage in conspiracy theory. However, this is too much! So, I get hit up with the "How many boxes of cookies do you want" from someone who's kid is in the Girl Scouts. Immediately I think, sure I can get a box, but then they throw this little ditty in at the first moments hesitation. "If you don't want them, you can buy a box and send it to the troops in Iraq." Then, seeing that I was intrigued, they continued with this. "Last year the Girl Scouts sent 250 thousand boxes of cookies to the troops."

Now there were roughly 138 thousand troops stationed in Iraq in 2008. That is almost 2 boxes of cookies per troop. Yet I have never seen a single image of troops eating girl scout cookies in Iraq. I have never heard them talking about girl scout cookies. The News hasn't covered it. Nobody talks about this alleged operation until you go to buy a box.

Think about the logistics and cost it would have taken to ship and distribute these cookies to the troops. I think it is a way to collect money and not have to manufacture or ship all the cookies. Basically, a cheap way to maximize profit.

I'm not buying it. I did however buy a box of "Courage Chocolate Chip"!
 
RonCollins said:
Think about the logistics and cost it would have taken to ship and distribute these cookies to the troops. I think it is a way to collect money and not have to manufacture or ship all the cookies. Basically, a cheap way to maximize profit.

I'm not buying it. I did however buy a box of "Courage Chocolate Chip"!
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Our Provincial Guide organization shipped cookies to the Canadian troops, we don't know if they made it to Afghanistan or not, but the Canadian military arranged for free shipping to troops stationed around the world.

my Unit personally paid for a case of cookies to donate to the troops, and we didn't ask for people to buy them for our soldiers. We just made sure we sold more to cover the cost of a case.

Ontario Girl Guides also sent cookies to the troops a year or so ahead of ours.

Since I originated the suggestion that BC do the same with cookies, I do take umbrage at a suggestion that the Girl Scouts in the US would hoodwink the public and NOT supply cookies to their troops.

Should you not realize it, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are part of the same worldwide organization, WAGGGS, and what one does, affects the others. Similarly, when one part of that organization is tarred by a brush tainted with a hasty opinion, the rest of us have to spend lots of time washing, too.
 
Just a quick note, this was really just sort of toungue and cheek. I was giving the guy a hard time about it and I thought it was funny. I was told by a friend that the movie Loaded Weapon had a similair plot. I really dont think that the Girl Scouts would be underhanded. Now the Shriners.......
 
tongue and cheek aside, I take the Girl Guides' and Girl Scouts' reputation very seriously; the kids work really hard to support their units, camps, and perform community service. I have to stand up for them. :)
 
my unit needs no support, it stands up on its own. lol.
i bought 14 boxes this year. i wish they had the old style mints like years ago.
 
we have mint cookies up here, different manufacturer and much better. these are like after eights on a chocolate wafer, dipped in more chocolate... mmmm. awesome frozen with hot chocolate.
course, where you are, you just need to stick them on the back porch and you can have them frozen for most of the year...

hehe

enjoying a balmy 5 celsius below...
 
i guess i am much older than you. the old mint cookies had white minty stuff in the middle.
 
pixelsmith said:
i guess i am much older than you. the old mint cookies had white minty stuff in the middle.
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so do these... we used to have the ones that were all chocolate-looking, but flavoured mint. these ones have the white mint layer, just like the after eights.

and I rather doubt you are much older than me, I am probably one of the most senior members around... :-)
 
hmm... i just bought 4 boxes of the mint ones and they have the chocolate covered chocolate mint stuff. wanna trade?
btw- i am 54. i had you at 24ish.
 
pixelsmith said:
hmm... i just bought 4 boxes of the mint ones and they have the chocolate covered chocolate mint stuff. wanna trade?
btw- i am 54. i had you at 24ish.
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oh, I am about, let's see, a week or so away from 54.

you have to move to Canada to get the good cookies because I am almost certain Homeland Security won't allow them across the border... ;)
 
Down here one year the Girl Scouts had a billboard with several girls smiling sweetly as they held out their boxes. The caption was: "Resistance is Useless"
 
what, they didn't like 'futile'? when we need to sell the last few cases, we just send out the Sparks. they are about 6 years old, pink uniforms... people are mush! :)
 
AnnetteMarie said:
what, they didn't like 'futile'? when we need to sell the last few cases, we just send out the Sparks. they are about 6 years old, pink uniforms... people are mush! :)
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I think you're right. It probably was 'futile' I can see the poster in my mind's eye. but not the whole caption.
 
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