I think it was unfair to say the issue doesn't rank up there with Global Warming.

"One box per overweight American"??? There are NOT 200 million overweight Americans. And I thought that healthy body-image meant liking yourself anyway even if you weren't Kate Moss-shaped.

MeMe Roth can fuck off.

They can have my Thin Mints when they pry them from my cold, dead, chocolate-smeared fingers.

Note that the comments go off on a tangent about which liquors go with which cookies.

Damn. Now I gotta find out where the little rats are selling the things. To Home Depot!

You know - this reminds me that they renamed Samoas! They're now called some Caramel Coconut Dee-light thing. I can't figure out why they'd do that, especially since everyone calls them Samoas anyway.

Oh, freakin' A.

Can we send these handwringing cookiebotherers to Darfur or somewhere where there's a REAL problem, and see how they deal?

Honestly. I think we've all got too soft if we are worried about Girl Scouts, their cookies, and the dangerous semiotics of girl scouts selling cookies (the last of which I was totally oblivious to, but then apparently I'm part Neandertal).

(And 'fly - I think they renamed Samoas because they were afraid that it somehow stereotyped residents of a small South Pacific island. Like, that people would assume they were all filled with caramel or something.)

I think they renamed Samoas because they were afraid that it somehow stereotyped residents of a small South Pacific island. Like, that people would assume they were all filled with caramel or something.

Rubbish. Everyone know South Pacific Islanders are filled with marshmallow and coconut, not caramel.

The GSC Wikipedia page (of course there's one) explains that the cookies are baked by two bakeries now, and each bakery gives the cookies a different name. So it depends on which bakery is doing the cookies in a given year.

That sounds dumb, diluting the brand like that, but there we are.

Angie, I didn't know specifically about Samoas (which I call "Nomoas") but that is true about different bakeries. I still don't understand why they use different names, but local councils (San Jose area vs. East Bay) use different bakeries and some of the names are different.

I don't think it's still the case, but just a few short years ago the different councils had different shortbread cookies, one called "trefoils" and one other name I don't recall offhand. The two shapes were the old and new badges, the trefoil and the newer design.

From the Roth article:

"According to the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), gaining merely 10-20 pounds after age 18 increases your chance of dying by 15%."

First of all, we all have a 100% chance of dying. You'd think enough people would have pointed that out by now that we wouldn't see such idiotic statements anymore.

Secondly, at age 18, I weighed 105 pounds. I'm 5'5". If I weighed 105 pounds now, I'd look like a scarecrow. Hell, I probably did then.