I bought my first box of Girl Scout cookies very young (thank you Jill Eastwood, classmate and most likely top seller of whatever troop she was in) and so learned my lesson about Girl Scout cookies: They must be protected at all costs!
Girl Scout cookies
are a communal experience, especially Thin Mints. If you have a box on your
desk, somebody is bound to ask for a couple. If you have guests to your
house and they see an open box in the pantry, it's fair game. And
if you have several hungry younger siblings like I did, forget about
freezing them, they'll disappear too fast.
To protect my cookies, I had to deceive my opponents. So years later I bought a box of the unpopular lemon-jelly cookies
and put the Thin Mints into that box.
My trick worked too... for about a day until one of my siblings poked
around in the lemon box and found the truth.
Just
as strongly as I feel about thin mints, so do other people feel about other flavors. Two of the top five sellers are the Peanut Butter Sandwich and the Peanut Butter Patty -- and are exactly
the
kind of peanut butter package the FDA is urging people to avoid right
now due to a salmonella outbreak the FDA is still linking to peanut
butter.
But
fear not. The Girl Scouts issued a release yesterday saying that the PB Patty and PB Sandwich are both safe: "Neither licensed baker
affiliated with Girl Scout® Cookies, ABC
Interbake and Little Brownie Bakers, source their peanut butter from the
supplier involved in the current peanut butter warning." (I imagine
that being spoken in an 11-year-old's voice, like Lucy from Peanuts.)
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