hus continues CM’s monthly blog-fest. Come July, I shall blog more. But for now, this rate is just fine.
As I am sure you know, we have come up on the Season of the Devil. Oh, come now. Don’t stare at your computer screen in coy surprise. You know what I’m talking about. Yes, you. It’s obvious.
Thin Mints. Samoas, too, but it’s really the Thin Mints that get me every time. Coworkers hawk them for their cute little girls. You see smiling faces bobbing above green uniforms outside every grocery store. Everywhere you turn, someone is selling Thin Mints. And they are so darned good. Plus, one fits into your mouth so easily, and it takes almost no time to chew it. One bite, and it crumbles into nothingness. And as we all know, nothingness cannot have calories.
Unless nothingness is a Thin Mint. Curse you, Girl Scouts of America.
So you tell me. Girl Scout Cookies: Evil? Or pure evil?
March 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Pure evil.
Thin mints get to me every time as do Samoas and they use to see Lemon Drop cookies that were soooo good.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Pure evil!
Oh my friggin word! I soooooo knew what you were talking about too! Them damn cookies. 8 boxes I tell you, thank goodness I have five other people to share them with.
Renee
March 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Elyssa, he Samoas are good, but they’re so sweet that I notice if I have more than one. The aftertaste of thin mints is . . . basically toothpaste. It’s hard for me to convince myself I didn’t just eat five in a row.
And Renee, I pray that I do not have girl-children, and if I do, I pray they do not enter the Girl Scouts. I will go for so many other activities instead. How about gymnastics? Martial arts? Soccer? Basket-weaving? Swahili lessons?
My biggest problem is that Mr. Milan can eat just one (or zero). So if every time we have cookies, he has one and I have five, I don’t need to tell you who’s eating ten billion more cookies than whom.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I haven’t seen them anywhere yet! Perhaps I should leave the house more…
Fortunately, Dareling #1 is too young for Girl Scouts - although it won’t be long. I have some rather traumatic memories of schlepping those things all over the neighborhood as a child. (My parents refused to sell them for me at work.)
My own personal favorites are the peanut-butter ones (Dosiedoes?). But I love me some Samoas and Thin Mints, too.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Pure Evil. I can say this because I was my daughter’s troop’s “Cookie Mom.” Gah. Stupid, stupid, stupid. We sold over 1400 boxes of cookies. Fourteen. Hundred. All through my dining room (arrived there and then picked up). I won’t tell you how many boxes are in my freezer. Anyone want a free box of Samoas or Thin Mints? Hmmm, guess I have some prizes to give out over at the Mavens…
(Tessa, the sale ended Sunday, but as I said, I’ve got plenty to spare!)
March 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I have the thin mints and samoas in my house. Will I survive this weekend? Probably not. *g*
March 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
PURE EVIL! Tagalongs and samoas are my downfall. I think I single handedly ate all the Tagalongs last week! And my waistline will be showing it. Bleh
March 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I actually gave my box of Thin Mints to my daughter today. She’s a new mom and needs all the strength she can get. They have a new lemon cookie this year that is really, really good. Two at a time is enough because they’re big.
(When I sold cookies in the Dark Ages they were 40 cents a box.)
March 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Ahem.
E
March 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Indeed. I second.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
So I guess this means none of you would like to buy cookies from my daughter? Help her make her 100 boxes sold mark and get that nifty flashy thing on the chart?
Come now, a Thin mint anyone? They are wafer thin!
April 14th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Definitely the work of the Devil. And Darcy tried to leave half a box at my house!