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Sail on, lemon creme cookies... apparently this will be the last year for them

When my wife was pregnant with our 2nd keet, she must've eaten 12 boxes of them...

buffettbride wrote:Tag Alongs are cookies with peanut butter on them and dipped in chocolate.

I learned today that they are also called Peanut Butter Patties.

When I was a kid, they were called Hoedowns. Good stuff.

Here's something I found online, so take it for what it's worth.


Varieties of Girl Scout Cookie

Girl Scout cookies are made by large national commercial bakeries under license from Girl Scouts of the USA. The bakers that the organization licenses change from year to year; as of 2005 they are ABC/Interbake Foods and Little Brownie Bakers. Licensed bakers can offer up to eight varieties of Girl Scout cookies. The national Girl Scout organization reviews and approves all varieties proposed by the bakers, but requires only three types: Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos and Shortbread/Trefoils. The other kinds can be changed every year. Each bakery names its own cookies. Thus the exact kinds, names, and composition of the cookies varies. Some examples of Girl Scout cookie varieties include:

Thin Mint: The most enduring and universally familiar Girl Scout Cookie of them all. These round, mint-flavored cookies covered with dark chocolate perennially sell the most boxes of any cookie. Thin Mints have never changed their name.

Peanut Butter Sandwiches or Do-si-dos: These sandwich cookies feature peanut butter filling between oatmeal cookies.

Trefoils or Classic Shortbread: These shortbread cookies are shaped like the Girl Scout Trefoil design.

Hoedowns, Tagalongs, or Peanut Butter Patties: These round cookies with a cookie center are covered with chocolate, having under their swollen chocolate surface an inner layer of peanut butter, much like the marshmallow under the chocolate surface in Mallomars.

Samoas or Caramel deLites: These consist of a circular vanilla cookie about 2" in diameter with a small hole in the center, covered in caramel and toasted coconut and then striped with chocolate. (The name is a takeoff on S'Mores, a traditional campfire dessert made by melting chocolate bars and marshmallows between two Graham crackers).

Savannahs: A sandwich cookie. The round, bumpy perforated cookie top and bottom surround what seems to be a maple-flavored layer inside. Probably named after Savannah, Georgia, where founder Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout troop meeting in 1912.

Golden Yangles: The only Girl Scout cookie without an element of sugar in them. These yellow, triangular cookies taste more like cheese puffs than traditional cookies. They are a favorite among diabetic and dieting Girl Scout cookie customers.

As of 2004, the best selling Girl Scout cookies are:

Thin Mints (25% of total sales)
Samoas/Caramel deLites (19%)
Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs 13%
Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos 11%
Shortbread/Trefoils 9%

Did you know that GS Cookies are made by Little Debbie...... or at least they were when I picked up this useless knowledge.....

has anyone ever heard of a GS cookie with the name "pinatas?"

I have had them one time and haven't been able to find them since.....it's like a shortbread cookie with a fruit filling???

I've never known a Girl Scout named Cookie so I don't know which one I'd like best.

Man! We don't have all of those varieties in Canuckia!!!!!

I want a Golden Yangle!

tikitatas wrote:I want a Golden Yangle!

Sounds like something that requires batteries.

I don't eat them anymore. Did you ever look at how fattening GSC are? They are more fattening than you'd think.

LIPH wrote:

tikitatas wrote:I want a Golden Yangle!

Sounds like something that requires batteries.

Phew! I kinda thought that, too, and then wondered if I was getting like you, Larry!

(Old smart perv!)

MelliJellyBean wrote:tagalongs and samoas


i remember the days when I went door to door selling those things! they were only $2/box then!

You have no idea how many boxes I sold at 50 cents a box.....a VERY long time ago

ToplessRideFL wrote:Did you know that GS Cookies are made by Little Debbie...... or at least they were when I picked up this useless knowledge.....

Usually there are a number of bakeries used. A couple of years ago, I bought some Thin Mints here in the Chicago area, and someone brought me a box they had bought in Iowa. I froze them all (the best way to eat them) and could tell the difference. And when I read the boxes, different bakeries were listed.

Ugh! Yes it is... as a member of our cookie "team" for the entire service unit, 60 or 70 troops I believe, I spent Tuesday sorting and shuffling 3000 cases in a very cold pole barn for the various troops to pick up.

I spent Wednesday night sorting 60 cases, breaking them down per the girls in my troop.

I spent tonight sorting 275 boxes that my daughters sold, starting to break them down into the individual orders.

I'll spend Friday and the weekend continuing to sort them, and delivering lots and lots of them.

Ours in the IL Crossroads Council come from ABC Bakers in Richmond, VA.

Thin Mints
Shortbread
Caramel DeLites
Peanut Butter Patties
Peanut Butter Sandwich
Lemon Pastry Cremes (lemon sandwich cookies)
Thanks A Lots (shortbread dipped in fudge - replacing similar Animal Treasures)
Cartwheels (oatmeal rounds with cinnamon - new, replaced Pinatas Dally mentioned)

I'd say PB Patties are my fav, followed closely by Thanks A Lots and Thin Mints. Pour a tall glass of milk, and you can knock out a half a box of any of them easily!

You Go, Girl Scouts!
I was in GSUSA Overseas for a few years, but the cookies didn't come to us in Europe!
Here in Canada, Girl Guide cookies come in a mint-chocolate variety in the fall and a traditional sandwich (vanilla ones and chocolate ones, half a box each) in the spring. The whole country is on the same schedule and has the same source. The baker has changed recently, after many years, and people like the new ones at least as much as the old ones.
Although I'm not active in the movement anymore, I have one daughter and one granddaughter in Guiding, so we get our share of cookies!

belated Happy Thinking Day to all my sisters in WAGGGS!

Snowparrot wrote:belated Happy Thinking Day to all my sisters in WAGGGS!

Belated Happy Thinking Day to you too!

My troop participated in a Thinking Day postcard exchange, and one of the troops we traded with was from Newmarket Ontario Canada!