TIL Girl Scout Cookies come from 2 companies & are slightly different

Feb 4, 2017 1:58 AM

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Mind = Blown!

I'm mildly interested

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I KNEW IT! MY MOTHER SAID I WAS CRAZY! I KNEW THOSE DAMN SAMOAS CHANGED! THEY WERE DIFFERENT ALL ALONG! Still they're fucking delicious tho.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

This explains why my memories do not match what I'm finding in the box

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

When I was a kid, I used to fucking love Thin Mints, then I moved up north, and never liked them. Now I know why.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There are TWO kinds of thin mints?! No wonder! I love the crunchy abc mints. Gotta try the others now

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've been over here gorging myself on the slender thinmints when I could have those gorgeous voluptuous ones like 20 miles away? I'll drive

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Oh my gosh. This is why they were different in college! Everyone thought I was lying. WHOS LYING NOW

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

OMG I never realized that the Dallas thin mints were different but I have always felt underwhelmed by the Austin ones and now I know why!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I feel like the girl scouts have been gaslighting me all these years.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I 100% just assumed they changed the name from Samoas to Caramel deLites for some PC reason. TIL

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is THE most important post I've ever seen; I moved from green to yellow; fuck these local cookies!

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I will send you a box of green cookies of your choice in exchange for lemonades.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh man thanks for this, I thought I was going crazy when the thin mints I had recently looked different.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thank you for this valuable information.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The hell is up with crunchy thin mints?! They're not thin mints if they're not coated in chocolate. How do you even freeze the crunchy ones?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hear ye, hear ye! ABC Baker area here, willing to trade whatever for a mixed case of Samoas and Savannah Smiles. Not kidding. Message me

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Tagalongs are the greatest

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I concur, though apparently not many other people do.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was in girl scouts in MS, when we moved to SC I was constantly wondering WTF a samoa was for years.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile here in MD they were my favorite for the longest time

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Here's a civil war worth getting involved with.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Nov 4, 2017 8:47 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Well to be fair, those of us in Yellow zones are getting straight fucked.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No wonder Caramel Delites taste so inferior to the cookies of my past. I'm in the wrong place!

9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

its funny, I'm the opposite way. Grew up with caramel delights, samoas just don't taste right to me.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Same, grew up in an ABC area, moved to a LBB area and was like "IS THERE EVEN MINT IN THIS THIN MINT??"

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My area switched bakeries like halfway through my run of girlscouts. It was horrifying.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So you're saying I should move to a community along the Canadian border near state lines where they switch, and get THREE sources?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"Slightly different"? Some of those aren't even in the same category.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

as someone who has lived on both sides of the line near Rochester, it all makes sense now

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Hey I used to live near Gates for about a year.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Grew up in Fairport!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live near Minneapolis, but we have the Little Brownie Bakers options and have since I was a kid.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

SC is wrong as well.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep. This map is incorrect

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Wisconsin here and I'm with ya

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This was from 2 years ago, so they might have changed. Alfredo: http://graphics.latimes.com/girl-scout-cookies/

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Again, this has been the case for at least 30 years.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same with NC

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This must not be entirely accurate. Minneapolis weighing in. I've definitely had the green type...

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yep yep

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

East Iowa is off too

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Can confirm we have ABC

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I have a shit ton of these in my living room. Who wants to buy some? Anyone? Pleaseeeee. They always give us 100 boxes and we sell about...6

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Which bakery do you have?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

ABC Bakery apparently although we're in WI.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Apparently I should read the map more carefully.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Asking the important question...

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'm actually really dissapointed they didn't answer. I need some Little Brownie bakers cookies. I'm in Rochester...I'm so close Dammit!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hooooooow do they determine which bakery is sold where? The division in the map doesn't make any regional sense, it's all over the place.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

ABC seems heavily metropolitan-based, so I'm assuming it's based on what price point they can offer G.S. based largely on logistics costs.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Perhaps...that's an idea. But LBB is in LA, Chicago and NY. And there's a line right b/w Fort Worth and Dallas? Idk!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Feels like it is just arbitrary brand allegiance. So maybe just has to do with supplier relations? I'll keep looking on the internet!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not all logistics companies deliver to all locations equally. And I'm assuming there's a bidding process as well; Given LBB has a bigger 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

total market share, I'm guessing they probably expend a little extra to make sure they keep the prime markets like NYC, LA and Chicago 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck that ABC shit.

9 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 5

Their "thin mint" looks like ass

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The ABC names are so literal, after I move into a LBB zone I was so confused by the order sheet.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was wondering what the fuck was going on when my cousin sent her kids order sheet out. Like when did they change the names?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

ABC can go suck a cock with that "Peanut butter sandwich" bullshit. THEY'RE DO-SI-DOS MOTHERFUCKER.

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

the s'mores look better than the LBB ones though. (but i haven't tried either yet. just bought a box today.)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But Lemonade are the BEST COOKIE EVER (subjectively)

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

They made one good cookie out of like a dozen types...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

i dunno, have you had savannah smiles? i discovered those the year before last and ate like three boxes in two weeks.... ish.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would be willing to try that one. I love lemon cookies.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They look and sound good. I wasn't impressed with the Savannah Smiles.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All I know is if I got one of those left thin mints they're a gonna be hell to pay

9 years ago | Likes 210 Dislikes 4

*there

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 8

*there's

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The left ones are better in my opinion.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 5

I get both, I live in Iowa almost right on the dividing line

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Agreed! I was thinking the same thing!!

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

This must've changed, because I live in the ABC zone and I definitely remember eating the right thin mints.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You can also tell the difference because one version comes in clear plastic packages, the other company's are in silver foil-looking ones

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've had them (I'm in the zone with the ones you like) and they're pretty good.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This must've changed, because I live in the ABC zone and I definitely remember eating the right thin mints.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I live in the LIttle Brownie Bakers zone and I definitely remember eating/selling some cookies on the ABC side. I wonder when it changed?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The "things" on the left aren't Thin Mints.

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 2

Yes they are, the "things" on the right are impostors!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The only people who believe that are those who haven't had the far superior and real Thin Mints shown on the right.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They're lies covered in chocolate

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

No joke, goddamn abominations

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ALL I KNOW IS LEFT THIN MINTS!! THE HELL?!?! I WANT RIGHT ONES!!!

9 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Tell them you want the right mints

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

IT'S BERENSTAIN BEARS ALLOVER AGAIN!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I don't get this reference. Care to elaborate?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't think anybody did. I think if you google Berenstein bears parallel universe you'll get it.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Samoas are pure heaven

9 years ago | Likes 280 Dislikes 3

Big Lots has them with chocolate cookie for like $1.50 a box.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dollar General too.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have to say I've always been a caramel delight man. Freeze 'em and enjoy singly. Lasts longer.

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 4

They are fucking amazing

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I've been telling my friend (a gs leader) to get me Carmel delights.. she's like there sommas now.. no..There f*:king carmel delites!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Found some at Family Dollar in their brand.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Me too! A few years ago.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Theres a donut shop in my town called sugar shack with a somoa donut....best thing ever

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

WHAT TOWN?!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Richmond Va, theres one in virginia beach too

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I want some.. but i live in Australia :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh man.... There's gotta be a way!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right? I'm about to drive to Sac to get some

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where you from?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ball.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

South bay, near SJ

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0