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2 less cookies per box this year?? There are only like 6 samoas in a box to begin with?!?

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/02/2 ... k-sales%2F

Early regional numbers are suggesting a drop of about 19% in cookie sales, based on a comparison of the early ordering activity of this year to prior years. There is still time to catch up on sales with shopping center booths, but I wouldn't count on doing well there, either.

Girl Scout Cookies are somewhat of an American icon. They're not necessarily the best cookies anyone has ever made, and the portions certainly aren't of a generous size. In fact, the Girl Scouts are taking heat this year for reducing the number of cookies in each box by about 2, thanks to drastic increases in the price of ingredients.

"Are they made from real Girl Scouts?"

They got a great deal from the Peanut Corporation of America just last month.

silverscreenselect wrote:They got a great deal from the Peanut Corporation of America just last month.

Actually, they made a great point of noting that none of their peanut butter cookies contained ingredients from the Peanut Corporation of America, which is the only recent company proven to provide salmonella-tainted peanut products.

sunflower wrote:2 less cookies per box this year?? There are only like 6 samoas in a box to begin with?!?

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/02/2 ... k-sales%2F

Early regional numbers are suggesting a drop of about 19% in cookie sales, based on a comparison of the early ordering activity of this year to prior years. There is still time to catch up on sales with shopping center booths, but I wouldn't count on doing well there, either.

Girl Scout Cookies are somewhat of an American icon. They're not necessarily the best cookies anyone has ever made, and the portions certainly aren't of a generous size. In fact, the Girl Scouts are taking heat this year for reducing the number of cookies in each box by about 2, thanks to drastic increases in the price of ingredients.

I don't know about the other kinds of cookies, but they did not reduce the number of Peatnut Butter Patties in a box. There are 15 Peanut Butter Patties in a box, just like previous years.

Different viewpoint from here:

Good - less calories I will consume.

I will open a box and finish the whole thing.

how's that for a confession?

peacock2121 wrote:I will open a box and finish the whole thing.

how's that for a confession?

Last year, I ate more boxes than I could count.

One of our staff had boxes in her office. I bought one almost every day until they were gone. I ate the entire box every time I bought one.

I also lost about 4 pounds during that month and a half.

I have no idea how I managed to pull that off.

Well, I was going to the gym, pretty regularly then.

peacock2121 wrote:I will open a box and finish the whole thing.

how's that for a confession?

The only box I can't eat all of in one sitting is thin mints. One sleeve per sitting is all I can handle. But I can eat them all in a day, as long as it's spaced properly. Samoas, watch out, I can eat them all and have been known to bite if someone tries to take one.

I spent the fall of 1989 working in a factory where they make GS cookies - the former Burry Biscuits factory in Elizabeth, NJ (it was Interbake Foods while I was there; who knows what it's called now or indeed if it's even still there).

It was a very weird situation and one of the worst jobs I've ever had. I was a temp in the hiring office, mostly doing typing and filing. The factory was unionized and paid what seemed to me to be pretty good wages (on the order of $10/hour in 1989). There didn't seem to be any onerous skill requirements for most of the factory floor jobs, and there was lots of unemployment in the area, which meant that the line of people who wanted to apply went around the corner most days, for maybe one or two jobs.

So the first part of my day was trying to get into the office. I was dressed very differently from the but many days when I was trying to get in, I would be hassled by the people at the front of the line who thought I was cutting in front of them. That was a bit frightening, but then it would change to "Wait. you work in the HIRING office? Maybe you can get me a job?", which of course I had no influence over.

I worked in an office with the Hiring Manager or Hiring Director or whatever who was always hoping I'd finish my work early so I could help him work on some newsletter he sent to his old Marine buddies. And the two non-temp regular secretaries. They both seemed like they were in their 60s already (but I was 21, so they probably weren't as old as I thought they were), and they had both worked there forever and they hated the applicants, they hated each other and they hated their boss. I have no idea WHY they hated each other, but they were both ranked equally and they both thought they should be in charge of the other. They were always complaining to me about the other person and trying to get me to take their side. They resented that their boss was so transparent about the amount of on-the-clock time he spent working on his hobbies, but they also spent a lot of time sucking up to them. And they were really mean to the applicants lining up. You could just tell that they'd been saying no to poor, mostly-minority applicants for decades and had gone from being nice and feeling guilty about saying no transferring that guilt into resentment of the people who were making them feel guilty. It was very sad. For some reason whenever I see a baseball player mumble a little bit of resentment about an umpire's call, and the umpire gets all up in THEIR face and escalates a beef (I haven't seen that in a while, but I feel like it used to happen a lot in the 90s), I always think of those 2 secretaries. It saddens me a little that I can't think of any of their names.

On the plus side, the pay was frighteningly good for someone who was trying to earn enough money to go back to college and I got an awful lot of free samples. You could buy a HUGE box of broken Thin Mints for like $3. At least once a week I would, and take them to my night job. Every single crumb would always be gone by the end of the night.

All this talk, now I need to go hit the vending machine. Great.

The good part is, I'm craving Lorna Doone cookies, which I am almost guaranteed not to find, so hopefully I will just walk away.

Even if I bought GS cookies, I wouldn't be upset. It's a fundraiser, and it looks like they have two choices -- increase the price, or decrease amount of product.

I don't buy them because I'm like Pea and Sunflower -- last time I bought any, I ate a whole box in one day. No more!

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:I spent the fall of 1989 working in a factory where they make GS cookies - the former Burry Biscuits factory in Elizabeth, NJ (it was Interbake Foods while I was there; who knows what it's called now or indeed if it's even still there).

What a horrible job!

I'm glad you escaped with your sanity intact.

SportsFan68 wrote:Even if I bought GS cookies, I wouldn't be upset. It's a fundraiser, and it looks like they have two choices -- increase the price, or decrease amount of product.

I don't buy them because I'm like Pea and Sunflower -- last time I bought any, I ate a whole box in one day. No more!

Some day, maybe I will be that disciplined about it. I talk myself into buying them because they are fundraisers and if I am going to give money, I deserve the cookies.

I do not ever buy cookies for my house from the grocery store.

peacock2121 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:Even if I bought GS cookies, I wouldn't be upset. It's a fundraiser, and it looks like they have two choices -- increase the price, or decrease amount of product.

I don't buy them because I'm like Pea and Sunflower -- last time I bought any, I ate a whole box in one day. No more!

Some day, maybe I will be that disciplined about it. I talk myself into buying them because they are fundraisers and if I am going to give money, I deserve the cookies.

I do not ever buy cookies for my house from the grocery store.

I hear you on that! If I want cookies, I try to buy one or two from the bakery case, instead of buying a larger container. Or I buy them on the way to work, so I can take one or two, then throw them out on a table for the scavengers. Same when I'm in a baking mood, I bring whatever I bake into work so I'm not tempted.

peacock2121 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:Even if I bought GS cookies, I wouldn't be upset. It's a fundraiser, and it looks like they have two choices -- increase the price, or decrease amount of product.

I don't buy them because I'm like Pea and Sunflower -- last time I bought any, I ate a whole box in one day. No more!

Some day, maybe I will be that disciplined about it. I talk myself into buying them because they are fundraisers and if I am going to give money, I deserve the cookies.

I do not ever buy cookies for my house from the grocery store.

I've convinced myself in the reverse -- if I donate money, I deserve not to be required to take the cookies, or the cookie dough, or the wrapping paper, or the chocolate bars . . .

I donate $5 or $10 and send them away, depending on how much money I have on me. Last Friday, the guy selling tickets to a homeless shelter fundraiser was outta luck. I had about $2 in change.

Saturday, I ran as fast as I could from a GS table at a Krogers. One of the girls said, "No, you big stupid!" very angrily to another girl. I heard an adult immediately step in and correct her verbally as I was moving out of earshot. I still wouldn't have bought any cookies if I'd been approached, but I might have donated. I hope GS is helping that kid learn to keep her temper.

SportsFan68 wrote:

ToLiveIsToFly wrote:I spent the fall of 1989 working in a factory where they make GS cookies - the former Burry Biscuits factory in Elizabeth, NJ (it was Interbake Foods while I was there; who knows what it's called now or indeed if it's even still there).

What a horrible job!

I'm glad you escaped with your sanity intact.

I'm sure there are those who disagree.