The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Girl Scout Cookie edition

[jaunthie]

The Good:

The Girl Scouts are out selling their cookies again, and I realize that I still have a box of cookies in the freezer from last year's annual ritual. We did not eat all the cookies over the course of the year. Yay us!

The Bad:

I still bought several boxes for the freezer (and let's face it, at least one box to be consumed this week). I'm a sucker for small kids selling things in the rain. I remember doing so, as a shy-around-strangers child, and it sucked big time.

The Ugly:

The Girl Scouts have changed their Thin Mints cookies! Not only is the box smaller, but the cookies themselves have more calories, more fat, more saturated fat, and less fiber than last year's cookies did. I am seriously annoyed by this. If they're going to change things, they should be making the cookies *healthier*, not *less healthy*.

The new version cookies taste about the same as last year's version (yes, fisherbear and I did a taste test), but the new cookies are fluffier, and have a layer of dark chocolate-looking stuff in the center. The old cookies don't. (The really old school Thin Mints had a white mint layer on top of the cookie between it and the chocolate coating, but that's going back a long ways.)

Also the Ugly:

I know/notice/remember so much about Thin Mints cookies. Apparently I *really* like them.

Comments

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

That's unfortunate to hear, since I have thin mints still waiting for me to pick up, and I take my thin mints very seriously. Not that I've ever found anyone who's eaten them who doesn't; I suspect carefully-hidden crack somewhere in the mint.

That being said, though, I compromised this year and sent half my cookies to Operation Cookie Drop, which means they're donated to care packages for troops. I was surprised I didn't see them pushing that harder, since it seems like it'd be a really easy sell for people who look askance at the calories.

[sunkrux.livejournal.com]

Sadness that yet again they've changed them. I'll be picking up my cookies from Ry's goddaughter next weekend. I also helped her by getting folks at my work to buy cookies from her. :D

[fisherbear.livejournal.com]

I really don't love the new thin mints. I suppose they're going for some kind of fluffy texture with the added filling, but it isn't as crisp as the old ones (even taking into account that our test cookies were probably still partially frozen.)

My personal mass market cookie benchmark is a Carr's ginger lemon creme. Last year, I would have rated thin mints as clearly preferable to Carr's. This year, I'm not so sure. Some years ago a classmate raised thin mints as an example of pragmatic limits to experimental design (Does a fresh thin mint taste better than a stale one? The world will never know!) but I don't think the example works any more. I can actually imagine leaving these alone long enough to dry out.

More thin mints for Jaunthie, I suppose. :)