OT: Girl Scout Cookies are Evil

Murph · Post by **Murph** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:04 pm

...because they taste so damn good.
 
 Chomping on Thin Mints as I type this. <IMG SRC="images/forum/icons/icon_razz.gif">

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:08 pm

Thin Mints are the best. Do they have whole grain ones made with unrefined sugar yet? Because then I can eat them again.
 
 Oh well, one can wish.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:29 pm

So they must have seasons?
 
 I noticed girl scouts selling at the stores yesterday. Some of them seemed a little too old to still be in the scouts.
 
 At the office, it´s usually the parents who pimp the cookies to co-workers.

Sudz · Post by **Sudz** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:16 am

thin mints ***** rule!

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:31 am

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 Yup, I bought 4 boxes from the girl scout whore at my office. Those chicks are straight evil...pimpin´ that filth all up and down the office halls. [ This message was edited by: dbdynsty25 on 01-03-2004 20:31 ]

Granatofan · Post by **Granatofan** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:32 am

You can keep your thin mints. I´ll take the Scot T´s

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:52 am

I don´t much care for American type cookies myself...too sweet. I usually buy imported German or Italian cookies, which are surprisingly not expensive if you go to the right places. What can I say, I just prefer European vanilla and chocolate flavor, as well as drier types of things as opposed to overly complicated and sweet cookies.

James_E · Post by **James_E** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:17 am

Parker (aka Resin): This is an honest question, not a flame.
 
 Why do you live in North America? You´re obviously a European at heart. It must be your job that keeps you here. Is it worth it?

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:24 am

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 Parker (aka Resin): This is an honest question, not a flame.
 
 Why do you live in North America? You´re obviously a European at heart. It must be your job that keeps you here. Is it worth it?
 
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 Liking foreign-cookies makes me anti-American? I like food from all over the world, including American things.
 
 You probably know from the other board that my political viewpoints are usually left of the mainstream so I guess it´s natural that I tend to concern myself with other parts of the world. But I am accepted enough here and since I don´t have any roots in Europe, I don´t plan on leaving. Especially if I get the chance to see Bush lose. Sadly, I have not traveled abroad nearly as much as I would like.
 
 I do have some issues with the boy scouts, I believe them to be a discriminatory organization but I won´t get into that. I´m not as familiar with the girl scouts. [ This message was edited by: Parker on 02-03-2004 07:27 ]

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:45 am

Hmmmmm carbs. Gotta think many people might take a two or three week hiatus from their diets to enjoy these delicious treats.

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:24 pm

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 Hmmmmm carbs. Gotta think many people might take a two or three week hiatus from their diets to enjoy these delicious treats.
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 It´s ok. You can eat carbs and be healthy. Since we are in the mode of comparing cultures, I´d point out that the obesity rate of Greeks or Italians is less than half of what it is here and they have been eating a mediterranean diet that it is high on carbs for centuries. Even though I´m in shape, my metabolism is not the best, but I eat tons of pasta and so-called bad foods by Atkins. I´m not much of a meat-eater.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:35 pm

Hey, you´re not going to see me give up breads, pastas and the like anytime soon. My metabolism is slowly catching up with me, but if you excercise and eat right that´s all that matters. I think it´s rather pathetic people think they can cut out carbs or whatever but they don´t have to excercise. That I´ll never understand.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:57 pm

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 One wall of my living room is now taken up by 84 cases of cookies. That works out to 1,008 boxes or 38,304 Thin Mint cookies if that´s all they sold. Actually that would be easier than shuffling around eight different varieties.
 
 My daughter is a cookie selling machine. If she sells ´em all this year (and she better), Sophie will have moved over 5,330 boxes of cookies since she started in Brownies five years ago.
 
 By the time cookie season ends on the 14th, I can´t stand the sight of the damned things.
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 LOL reminds me of when my sisters were in the Girl Scouts. Those girls can get competitive when it comes to those prizes.
 
 You know if Sega had half of the marketing skills of the Girl Scouts they might stand a chance with EA. <IMG SRC="images/forum/icons/icon_wink.gif">

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:08 pm

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 Then call me Rover, because biscottis are one of my favorite things in life. Of course, I like having them with stronger coffee as opposed to the gallon-size watered down stuff they sell at Starbucks. [ This message was edited by: Parker on 02-03-2004 15:09 ]

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:19 pm

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On 2004-03-02 14:42, sf_z wrote:
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 Then call me Rover, because biscottis are one of my favorite things in life. Of course, I like having them with stronger coffee as opposed to the gallon-size watered down stuff they sell at Starbucks.
 
 [ This message was edited by: Parker on 02-03-2004 15:09 ]

Whew... thankfully coffee machines can be found and purchased here in the USA.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:27 pm

I heard the first couple of Starbucks opened in Paris and they are big hits over there. It could be just American tourists or it could be some of the locals finding out that if they´re going to pay 3 euros for a demi-tasse of espresso, they might as well get a 16 oz latte or mocha from Starbucks instead.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:11 pm

Actually, I heard the first one is near the Opera and there are locals in there.
 
 The second one is supposedly near Montparnasse.
 
 A lot of Parisians also patronize McDonalds apparently. Yeah you´re right about cafe society. However, Paris is the number one tourist destination so a lot of that cafe society is designed to cater to tourists anyways.