The Inquirer points out that Girl Scout cookies, those paragons of American sustinence and virtue, are now made in Canada.
In other breaking news, those sneaky Canadians seem to have changed the name of the best Girl Scout cookie from “Samoa” to “Caramel deLites.”
deLites? The Girl Scout credo states:
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to helping all girls everywhere build character and gain skills for success in the real world.
How about starting by teaching them to spell?
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Rod Waterman:
Man, those Caramel DeLites are the best. I was always confused about the previous spelling too, though. Samoas? S’Moas? Was it a pun on S’mores? And what does that have to do with Samoa? Was there some kind of post-colonial thing going on there, and was the name change an attempt to redress that? Because, you know, it’s really offensive to name a cookie after a country in the South Pacific that, according to the CIA world factbook is “slightly smaller than Rhode Island.”
I work in a cubicle environment and every Girl Scout cookie season I roam around my office looking for people with order forms so that I can order myself the shit out of some Caramel DeLites. I used to be a Thin Mint person, but then I saw the lite.
dragonballyee:
when is o’reilly going to boycott the girl scouts?
yoko:
Little Brownie Bakers, the other authorized Girl Scout cookie seller (there are only 2), retains the cookie names that I grew up with.
Rod Waterman:
Oh yeah, and also, they changed the name of Tagalongs, too. To Peanut Butter Patties. WTF?
Matt:
Rod, I wondered about the politically correct angle, too. [Here is the link to the CIA Factbook for Samoa, by the way.] I wonder if they named the cookie for the coconut that the island exports:
“Agriculture employs two-thirds of the labor force, and furnishes 90% of exports, featuring coconut cream, coconut oil, and copra.”
Dragonballyee: I’m sure it’s on the list, along with SpongeBob and Buster the Bunny.
Yoko, thanks for that link. It made me hungry…and I love the little descriptions they have under every cookie:
Extra thin, extra minty!
Rich and chewy!
Lite and delicious! (you see what happens when they start misspelling?)
Wildly popular!
Peanutty excitement!
And on that note, I wish you all a weekend full of peanutty excitement!
ally:
argh! i made the mistake of buying caramel delites instead of samoas! unless they changed the recipe this year like last year (they decreased the partially hydrogenated oils so the caramel melted all over the tray).
they taste like plastic!
make sure to buy from the girl scouts who get ‘em from little brownie bakers (NOT abc), who still call ‘em samoas, they’re recipe is slightly different and hopefully still good like before.
and could this be right? they don’t have anything chocolate in the ingredients except less than 2% alkalized cocoa?! was it always like this?
crappy caramel delites!
i spit on you!
(and then i eat you up even as i complain with my mouth full).
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