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Parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 1805
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 9:26 am: |     |
Hot Tip: There will be a Girl Scout Cookie Sale this Saturday March 12th at Springfield/Prospect (Fleet Bank/Net Nomads) starting at 9:00 AM. This information should in no way be considered as Insider (Cookie) Trading  |
mim
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Username: Mim
Post Number: 418
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 9:33 am: | |
There will also be a cookie sale at the South Orange train station this Saturday morning!
(My favorite is All Abouts -- tho the kids adore Tagalongs.)
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doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 283
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 10:18 am: | |
I'm with you, Gozerbrown, ThinMints from the freezer...yumm
I used to love Samoas, maybe I still do - seems like the last time I had them,though,they tasted a bit different - wonder if they have changed the recipe?
I once sold 66 boxes & got my special cookie badge - fourth grade. That's probably a drop in the bucket of what's sold now by the average girl scout.
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shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 782
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 11:00 am: | |
Shopt Rite in Millburn is having a booth sale this Saturday, 10-4. |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1902
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 11:32 am: | |
Hey Girl Scout Folks,
I have very carefully not posted when my troops are doing these sales because Girl Scouts are not supposed to use the Internet to advertise or sell cookies. That includes MOL posts advertising booth sales, for better or worse. (Emails sent to friends and family are OK.) I may have even overstepped that rule a bit when I posted likely locations and times for such sales, but I tried to keep those general. Please be aware of this and feel free to send me a note if you have questions about this policy. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 445
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:25 pm: | |
Cathy--- you said this and it made me laugh--
My dad grew up in Cambridge very near the Necco factory so maybe it's genetic.
Your like for Necco Wafers is definately genetic, or, atleast it can be made to be. Wouldn't you know it, the Necco factory is now used by a biotech company for GENETIC ENGINEERING!
The OTHER THIN MINT, Haviland chocolate thin mints, are still made in another Necco factory nearby.
--John |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5807
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:27 pm: | |
I'm pretty sure that Cambridge has only one Necco factory, Cathy, so that's the one. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 1871
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:29 pm: | |
Anyone ever hear the song "Girl Scout Cookies" by NRBQ ?. Hilarious. |
blackcat
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Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 301
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:39 pm: | |
We're working on a box of Do-si-do's today...that's the third box this week....must stop... |
Cathy
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 784
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 2:51 pm: | |
But I don't know if my grandmother worked in the Necco factory or perhaps the Caines pickle factory or someplace else entirely. I just know she worked in a factory. I didn't know that there was a genetic engineering firm in that building now, but that is funny. (My family severed its ties to Cambridge many many years ago. I think they cleared out "our kind" [Irish/Newfie underclass - think Angela's Ashes except living in far worse conditions] during some kind of urban renewal or MIT expansion project.)
And so that I can't be accused of thread drift, I also like Do-si-dos & Trefoils.  |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 698
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 4:21 pm: | |
Hey everyone-
After I read sac's post I was a little worried about getting my niece into trouble for the note I posted about her still having cookies. As a result I called the Council in Montclair and spoke to the woman in charge.
I was told as long as THE TROOP MEMBERS don't post the information and troop numbers aren't mentioned, nor is it said so and so troop (insert number) is selling cookies for such and such price, at such and such a place, there ishouldn't be a problem.
She read the posts already here while we were on the phone and said posts like these are fine.
What they are very against, and nobody has done this here, is for troop members to go online saying 'I am so and so selling cookies. Contact me and I'll see you some..." type of posts. |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1912
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 8:48 pm: | |
I happily stand corrected. I guess I'll have to check to see if these types of posts may be made by troop leaders (who are, after all, members also.)
My sale was this evening so it's too late to post that now anyway, at least for any advertising benefit (although we may be doing another one in a few weeks.) But, it went very well even without a specific post. We sold around 200 boxes of cookies at the South Orange train station in about two hours. |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 704
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 3:43 am: | |
sac I didn't mean to come off as corecting you. I was concerned for my niece and I didn't want my sister in law to kill me if I got my niece into trouble. All the posts here are fine. Congrats on selling all those cookies! It sure bears going door to door like we did when we were kids!
As an added note, if I didn't call I wouldn't have found out about the group of women who use to be scouts! lol |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1914
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 9:13 am: | |
No problem ... and thanks for checking. |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 140
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 7:32 pm: | |
I was a bit disappointed in the quality of GS cookies this year. I got the caramel clusters (the Samoas alternatives) and enjoyed the flavor but the cookie was definitely different to what I remember them being -- which was odd. The same was true with the Thin Mints which are my personal favorites. I mean don't fix what aint broke. The cookie tasted different (a bit saltier) and had a different shape? What gives? The Peanut Butter Patties seemed different too, much less enjoyable as if the peanut butter to cookie ratio was off.
These cookies have always been the same for me, my entire life and it's as if over the years they are slowly changing and getting worse. If this is what we get with multiple bakers, then I say go back to the one bakery and keep the quality the same. I mean, I'm not going to ask the little girls which bakery they get their cookies from. They'd just give me an odd look anyway, and not know.
I don't know, just a bit disappointed with this years batch I guess. Don't get me wrong, we did eat them all regardless. :-) |
Andrea Weisbard
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Username: Njnetsfan
Post Number: 90
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 8:24 pm: | |
Gozerbrown,
I also like frozen Thin Mints with a cold glass of milk. |
silkcity
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Username: Silkcity
Post Number: 302
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 7:33 am: | |
There was a big piece in the NYT about GS cookies -- the probably taste diff has to do with less fat and trans fat. |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1920
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 6:26 pm: | |
Alleygator - If you got Caramel Delites rather than Samoas and your other cookies came from the same Girl Scout, then you have cookies from the ABC baker rather than LBB which supplies our local council. Most of us around here think that the LBB cookies are generally better (at least comparing the equivalent flavors to each other.) I haven't tried any of the ABC "same" flavors this year, since I have hundreds of our cookies going through my house, so I can't say for sure, but it is possible that you are not really making a "last year to this year" comparison but rather a comparison of the two different bakers. |
AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 141
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 6:43 pm: | |
That's fine sac but it doesn't change my opinion. The GS cookies I got this year were different and not as fulfilling. Multiple bakeries might be a bad idea. |
sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1921
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 6:56 pm: | |
I think that multiple bakeries is unavoidable as they don't necessarily serve all regions. The national Girl Scout organization "licenses" specific bakeries to provide Girl Scout cookies and then the individual councils decide which one to use based on various factors. In our area there happen to be two bakeries competing for the local councils' business and there are a number of councils within a fairly small geographic area here, so we have a somewhat unusual situation compared to most parts of the country. I'm not sure whether there are other bakeries than these two in other areas, although I know that there used to be.
I'm sure that if there was only one bakery, there would be people complaining that it was anti-competitive, so I guess no solution will please everyone.
Next year (or next week), try the ones being sold in M/SO and you may be pleasantly surprised that they are "better than last year (last week)"
(Of course it is always possible that our council will switch bakers next year, but I think it is unlikely.) |
kriss
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Username: Kriss
Post Number: 133
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 10:32 am: | |
Easily, my faves are Tagalongs and Thin Mints. Haven't noticed a change in quality, just in my desire/need/craving for them. I was pregnant last year when my niece was selling them and we went through our order quicker than you can start a controversy on MOL. This year, to avoid the withdrawal symptoms we suffered last year, we doubled our order (I am way too ashamed to tell you the # of boxes we ordered) so there are a bunch of boxes lounging in the deep freezer in the basement. Although...
I keep seeing suspicious empty plastic sleeves and crunched up cardboard boxes, so methinks husband has been sneaking cookies upstairs under the radar. Which makes me wonder, maybe the pace with which we went through our stash last year was not so much related to my pregnancy as to someone else's sweet tooth? |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2675
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 10:58 am: | |
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sac
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Username: Sac
Post Number: 1934
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 3:17 pm: | |
That's in the wrong thread. (I'm pretty sure that it's a Cub Scout shirt.) |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2688
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 4:05 pm: | |
She's a Scout. She's a Girl. She's a Cookie.
-s.
BTW: Thin Mints... |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 4024
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 11:37 pm: | |
I'm in Ohio & went to get my mom a milkshake at the homemade ice cream place up the street. Guess what they have?
Not just Thin Mint ice cream (overrated & too few cookie bits, IMHO) but Thin Mint Ice Cream Bars. They are the TM ice cream with cookie bits inside, covered in chocolate.
yummmmmmmm!!!
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AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 149
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 7:50 pm: | |
I did enjoy Edy's brand Samoas ice cream. Get in the supermarket here. The Thin Mint one was just so-so. |
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