I ordered four boxes!
From her dad:
Wild (the kid’s name) has decided that she wants to sell 12,000 Girl Scout Cookies so that she can take her whole troop to summer camp. Will you help her? Pre-order your box of cookies: Caramel Delights, Peanut Butter Patties, Shortbread, Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Thanks-A-Lot, Lemonades, and Daisy-Go-Rounds. We need your name, contact info, which boxes, how many, and you have to live in WNC so that we can actually deliver to you. Send pre-order info to info@freebornasheville.com
or fill out form at http://www.topfloorstudio.com/girlscout-cookies.html Boxes are only $3.50 each.
boxes are only 3.50 each…and chock full of carcinogenic hydrogenated oils, preservatives, sugar and chemicals.
in a country full of obese mindless snackers, i would love it if the girl scouts sold carrot sticks that they grew themselves. i’d buy 10 bags of those.
sorry to be a downer, but there must be another way for girls to get to summer camp.
http://www.abcsmartcookies.com/cookies_nutrition.asp
Skippy,
I’m pretty strict about foods, but really, a couple cookies a year isn’t going to hurt.
Remember oranges are chock full of sugar and chemicals too.
i understand, EM, but 12,000 isn’t a couple cookies. and sure oranges contain naturally-occurring fructose, but it’s not high fructose corn syrup added by a machine.
sorry if this came across harshly, last year i bought 2 boxes to support the girls & threw them away, i’m not anti girl scout at all, i’m anti-unhealthy cookie spreading to raise funds. if they sold cucumbers they’d grown in the summer – i would buy as many as possible.
I hear you, Skippy. And yet, the demand for home-grown cukes is probably not high enough to pay for Girl Scout camp.
Also, I looked at the nutritional information link you sent, and I thought the cookies looked pretty good. No trans fats, wheat flour, a bit of corn syrup, but not the HFCS, and the Shortbread Cookies only have 1 gram of sugar per cookie (the all-organic Oreo-type cookies in my pantry have 9 grams of sugar per cookie). I saw palm oil, but no hydrogenated oils.
Of course, you still may not want to eat a Girl Scout cookie, which is your right. I’m going to stick with my stance that as long as they’re eaten rarely, as a treat, and in moderation, it’s OK.
As Julia Child said, “all things in moderation”. Give me the cookies, but in moderation.
Sorry to say, we would face a revolt if we didn’t buy from our neighborhood Scouts.
EM, I’m in your camp. I don’t buy them and personally think that maybe they ought to start thinking about something else to sell but hey….it’s a tradition! Next thing you know someone will try and outlaw candy canes or … the GINGERBREAD HOUSE competition because of the “…flagrant display of excessive quantities of products containing artificial color, flavoring and corn syrup that is corrupting the minds, hearts and verily the stomachs of the masses.”
i suppose no one stopped to think that this may not be a legitimate cookie sale, but a scam to harvest addresses and phone numbers from unsuspecting people who wish to buy these cookies. also, what happened to young girls camping out at various shopping locations with permission or going with parents to sell around the neighborhood? from what i’ve seen, based on facebook spam groups, the fake spam accounts posting this hogwash on every person in the asheville networks, spam in other asheville publications, and the twitter spam, this appears to be very illegal. well, no one will be crying to me when their addresses and phone numbers have been compromised for a few cookies. i’ve been in asheville for all my life and i’ve been using the internet for a very long time, and i have never heard of this company, which is probably exactly what this scam wants.
i’ll go find a legitimate troop to buy from, since they’re planning to use their funds to do community service projects and help others, which is one of the many missions of the girl scouts.
Sam,
I know these folks. It’s legit. I’m very wary of Internet scams. Been there. Thanks for noting, though.
The Girl Scouts of the USA Standards prohibit the use of the internet for online ordering. The guidelines for the 2009 sales program clearly state that the use of the internet is intended for advertising only, as such I hope you will remove your ordering site soon. Visit the GSUSA publication called SafetyWise for further details: http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/2008_safetywise_product_revisions_01.pdf