i’m close to finishing off the last of the girl scout cookies i bought this year and i’m finding myself having to try and make the most of what’s left and savor them as best i can. as we all know, girl scout cookies are only available once a year during a three to four week window. they are also only sold by your neighborhood friendly girl scouts. you can’t buy them anywhere else - not even online.
trust me. i tried.
but the girl scouts of america’s reasoning behind this is that the purpose of selling the cookies is to teach girls important life skills, like good communication and how to properly handle money. and when you get past your bitterness of not being able to freely buy girl scout cookies whenever you please, their logic makes sense.
and the reality is that the girl scouts of america are actually ingenious businesswomen. here’s the basic business model: you sell something that you know everyone loves (cookies) to an audience that can’t say no to anything that will give them diabetes (america) and you only sell the products once a year thus making them incredibly coveted. additionally, you use cute little girls as your salespeople making it impossible to say no to them when they preciously ask you to buy a box of do-si-dos. it’s really quite a brilliant operation they’re running over there.
anyway, as another year of those freaking cookies comes to an end and we all eagerly await next february/march, i give you my girl scout cookie power rankings.
3. samoas. every year i think i’m getting tired of these cookies, and every year i’m wrong.
2. thin mints. the OG of girl scout cookies. can’t go wrong with the classic.
1. lemon chalet cremes. highly underrated and also highly delicious. something about them makes me want these cookies the most. maybe it’s the lemon flavor or the way it’s sandwiched together like an oreo. or maybe it’s crack.
