Anyone else munching down on Girl Scout Cookies???
I bought Samosas, shortbread, lemon and double chocolate.
And enjoying them all. Want one???? I'll share!!!
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Lindaloo wrote:I bought a case of the Samoas and 4 boxes of the Pinatas. I am sharing with no one. ROFL!!
My cookies came from Texas Duckie.
Stingy moderator......just kidding. Don't ban me!!!!
We're out of GS cookies right now. We've only gone thru about a dozen boxes.....LOL At all area grocery stores you see GS troops selling them so I can always pick up more. And we can't even begin to taste the Semona's. Oh well, have a severe peanut allergy in the family. Thin Mints and the coconut/chocolate ones are the big hit here. I really liked the oatmeal iced ones a few years ago but they quit making them. Dang.
Just curious....what's all this about Texas and GS cookies? Thanks Duck.
Mary
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This morning I bought a box of Samoa's from one of the guys here on the job who's daughter had some extra's leftover.
After my traumatizing experience yesterday, I figured I was entitled.
Somoa's have 3 compartments of 5 cookies in each one (15 total in a box). So far I've eaten 7 cookies!
That equals 525 Calories.
Plus I've eaten 4 of Mike's Dosido's Peanut Butter Cookies: that equals 320 Calories!!
Total Caloric Intake of Girl Scout Cookies this morning: 845 Calories
Holy Crap!
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LOL, Linda -- of course, your GS cookies came from TX. We're not buying them here and we're shipping them all out of state for others to have.
J/K -- honestly, no one I know is or has a Scout so I didn't know it was time to order until it was too late and I'd read the news. Personally, I like the Shortbread cookies.
As for what's up with Texas and Girl Scout Cookies, here's the news article, Mary.
I don't think it would have kept me from purchasing cookies. Hadn't thought about it that much since I never got a chance to think about ordering anyway.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _boycott_1
CRAWFORD, Texas - Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.
Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization?
The furor was started a few weeks ago by the leader of the anti-abortion group Pro-Life Waco, who sent out e-mails and ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because of the "cozy relationship" between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood.
Parents were upset to learn that the local Girl Scout organization had given a "woman of distinction award" last year to a Planned Parenthood executive. And they were disturbed to find out that the Girl Scout organization has been giving its endorsement for years to a Planned Parenthood sex-ed program in which girls and boys are given literature on homosexuality, masturbation and condoms.
"It's not that we're a bunch of activists. We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids," said Lisa Aguilar, who took her 10-year-old daughter out of her eight-member Girl Scout troop. "For us, it's the morality. Where is Girl Scouts going?"
The two troops in Crawford, population 700, decided not to deliver the cookie orders that they had already taken.
But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.
"People thought the boycott was ridiculous and was one man's extremist views," Parker said.
While the cookie boycott may have backfired, the furor prompted the parent leaders of the two Crawford troops to quit.
"You're telling these girls to raise their fingers up to pledge to honor God and country, and yet you're handing out materials saying homosexuality is OK," said Brownie leader Donna Coody, who disbanded her five-member troop.
Because of the uproar, the Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts, which oversees troops in the Waco area and 13 other counties, announced last week that it would not be affiliated with Planned Parenthood sex-education programs this year.
In an editorial in Friday's Waco Tribune-Herald, Pam Smallwood, the Planned Parenthood of Central Texas executive director who was honored by the Girl Scouts last year, complained that Girl Scouts had thereby demonstrated that "bullying tactics are more effective than an informed democracy."
The Waco-area Girl Scout organization has been putting its name and logo on brochures for the Planned Parenthood sex-education programs but said it does not contribute any money and does not send girls to attend.
Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.
Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core stuff.
"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.
Pro-Life Waco director John Pisciotta, an economics professor at Baylor, the world's largest Baptist university, said his call for a cookie boycott "was a way to bring attention to the issue and wasn't really about cookies."
The Girl Scouts national organization, which is based in New York and has 2.9 million girl members and 986,000 adult members, takes no position on sex education or abortion and has no national relationship with Planned Parenthood, according to the Bluebonnet Council.
The Crawford mothers are forming their own girls organization and will use a Christian-based curriculum. Beth Vivio, director of the Bluebonnett Council, declined to say if parents in any other troops had taken their daughters out.
Some parents decided to explain abortion to their girls. Others gave only a vague explanation about the uproar.
"Our girls have been through a lot these past three weeks," said Jennifer Smith, who quit as leader of Girl Scout Troop 7527 and removed her daughter. "After I told my 10-year-old daughter that they are supporting some things that are not morally right, she understood."
J/K -- honestly, no one I know is or has a Scout so I didn't know it was time to order until it was too late and I'd read the news. Personally, I like the Shortbread cookies.
As for what's up with Texas and Girl Scout Cookies, here's the news article, Mary.
I don't think it would have kept me from purchasing cookies. Hadn't thought about it that much since I never got a chance to think about ordering anyway.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _boycott_1
CRAWFORD, Texas - Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.
Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization?
The furor was started a few weeks ago by the leader of the anti-abortion group Pro-Life Waco, who sent out e-mails and ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because of the "cozy relationship" between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood.
Parents were upset to learn that the local Girl Scout organization had given a "woman of distinction award" last year to a Planned Parenthood executive. And they were disturbed to find out that the Girl Scout organization has been giving its endorsement for years to a Planned Parenthood sex-ed program in which girls and boys are given literature on homosexuality, masturbation and condoms.
"It's not that we're a bunch of activists. We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids," said Lisa Aguilar, who took her 10-year-old daughter out of her eight-member Girl Scout troop. "For us, it's the morality. Where is Girl Scouts going?"
The two troops in Crawford, population 700, decided not to deliver the cookie orders that they had already taken.
But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.
"People thought the boycott was ridiculous and was one man's extremist views," Parker said.
While the cookie boycott may have backfired, the furor prompted the parent leaders of the two Crawford troops to quit.
"You're telling these girls to raise their fingers up to pledge to honor God and country, and yet you're handing out materials saying homosexuality is OK," said Brownie leader Donna Coody, who disbanded her five-member troop.
Because of the uproar, the Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts, which oversees troops in the Waco area and 13 other counties, announced last week that it would not be affiliated with Planned Parenthood sex-education programs this year.
In an editorial in Friday's Waco Tribune-Herald, Pam Smallwood, the Planned Parenthood of Central Texas executive director who was honored by the Girl Scouts last year, complained that Girl Scouts had thereby demonstrated that "bullying tactics are more effective than an informed democracy."
The Waco-area Girl Scout organization has been putting its name and logo on brochures for the Planned Parenthood sex-education programs but said it does not contribute any money and does not send girls to attend.
Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.
Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core stuff.
"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.
Pro-Life Waco director John Pisciotta, an economics professor at Baylor, the world's largest Baptist university, said his call for a cookie boycott "was a way to bring attention to the issue and wasn't really about cookies."
The Girl Scouts national organization, which is based in New York and has 2.9 million girl members and 986,000 adult members, takes no position on sex education or abortion and has no national relationship with Planned Parenthood, according to the Bluebonnet Council.
The Crawford mothers are forming their own girls organization and will use a Christian-based curriculum. Beth Vivio, director of the Bluebonnett Council, declined to say if parents in any other troops had taken their daughters out.
Some parents decided to explain abortion to their girls. Others gave only a vague explanation about the uproar.
"Our girls have been through a lot these past three weeks," said Jennifer Smith, who quit as leader of Girl Scout Troop 7527 and removed her daughter. "After I told my 10-year-old daughter that they are supporting some things that are not morally right, she understood."
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Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.
Unbelievable!!
I don't know how I missed this, but I did. I can't believe Girl Scouts is associated with Planned Parenthood at all. That is just sickening.
Now it wouldn't stop me from buying cookies from an innocent little girl because it's not her fault but if I had a daughter in Girl Scouts, she would be taken out. There's something really wrong with that picture.
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I've never heard of Samosa's. What flavor are they? I love the peanut butter patties.
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Re: Girl Scout cookies
sunnyday wrote:I've never heard of Samosa's. What flavor are they? I love the peanut butter patties.
They're sort of chocolate-flavored and they crumble easily and fight with the other cookies.
Oh...wait...that's Omarosas.
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I love samoas too... I ordered two boxes, but unlike some of you... I shared!!!
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