The Girl Scout cookie sales help fund trips for the girls, nature hikes, camping, and donating goods and services to local organizations such as animal care and helping the elderly. These projects also help the girls earn their merit badges.
Oh so if they go on a field trip or camping then the girls don’t have to pay anything to go and for what they would need on it cause the money they got selling cookies pays for all of the costs? But then i wonder what happens if the girls weren’t able to sell much so didn’t make much money, maybe the Girl Scout organization gives them money for it from the total amount that was made by all of the Girl Scout troops across the US
Boy scouts regionally sell a variety of items but generally sell popcorn. Also, Aidan's knowledge gap has Sophie so confused, I remember she asked him if he knows how long a decade is.🤣
Do-si-dos (dough-see-doughs) are one of my all time favorite flavors next to the short bread cookies. its a peanut butter flavored cookie with peanut butter in between the cookies, so freaking good. So underrated lol
Samoas and Thin Mints are my favorite. I like to throw the box of Thin Mints in my freezer. Justs adds a whole new depth of flavor that makes it taste even better.
there are ice cream shops i used to go to that would have packages of girlscout cookies and you could pay extra to have them quickly pulse chop up frozen thin mints and samosas to add as a topping to sundaes or shakes. .
We call them the Girl Scout Cartel here in Texas. There’s NO WAY of avoiding them! Them little girls know how to sell and negotiate at such a young age, true business girls for sure. Once you buy your first box, that’s it, you’re hooked for life. I can stop eating them after I start
The old Thin Mints were somewhat like After 8 mints except there was a bottom layer that was a thin cookie (or biscuit. The newer version no longer has the thin layer of white creme. Tastes pretty similar, but I preferred the ones with the white creme. Actually, After 8s are more like a York mints or Andes mints but are square and very thin.
Aidan: Girl Scout cookie season is huge in the US. You can’t get very far without Girl Scouts in your face, trying to sell you their cookies. They usually set up stands in the mall, in front of grocery stores, or on busy corners. Certain types sell out quickly. In offices, it’s like sports betting, everyone wants in to pre-order. When marijuana was legalized in many states, one shrewd and entrepreneurial girl in San Diego got national coverage for setting up shop in front of a marijuana dispensary, and sold a lot of boxes. These dispensaries are now coveted places to set up shop. You now need to follow this up with the Tosh.0 video where a girl was sent to prison for stealing money from a Girl Scouts stand. Very sad on her part, but funny video.
girl scout cookies sell a lot because when it's that season, they are everywhere. you can't enter a grocery store, walmart, target, sams or costco without seeing a table with the small, suited up gremlins. LOL, but you also want to support them because they're doing something extremely American, that most people here can easily identify with. You set a goal, and you attain it. it's not just given to you. i buy five to ten boxes a season and will give them out to various people like co-workers. my favorite are the samoas, followed by the tagalongs (pronounced tag-a-long). the thin mints are nice too, but come in third for me. also, i feel like a lot of people here do call shortbreads, shortbreads. but a lot of people also call them cookies. in my family, we've always called them shortbread cookies, like sandies or biscochos.
Thank you Gaynor for explaining how Girl Scout cookies work. Decades ago, my mom was a Girl Scout Troop leader, and we sold to our neighbors, our family, our church, our friends, our teachers, our school sports teams, and more. We had a huge family room wall to wall full of cookie orders for hundreds of people one year. Mom was a saint for helping to organize the orders for her three girl scouts year after year. ❤ My favorites are peanut butter patties, and thin mints. Some people like to freeze the thin mints. Finally, the Girl Scouts organization has two major bakers that fulfill the orders.
Being a former Girl Scout, cookie sales are so much fun and very competitive. It helps the girls get out and socialize with friends and neighbors. The thin mints and samoas are best eaten frozen, personally. There are just a few original cookie flavors left from when I was a Girl Scout but the Lemon Delights are very good. Hope you are able to try them sometime soon.
When I was in the navy, we would receive a couple hundred boxes of these when we'd hit a friendly port while on deployment. They'd be gone before the end of the day!
Samoas are the best. Yes, these are cookies here. A biscuit here is what you see with biscuits and gravy (white flour gravy, sausage, pepper) or with butter and jam, preserves, etc.--really good with apple butter. Often I see UK people calling these biscuits scones, but they are not the same at all--very flaky and not sweet, but buttery instead. We have scones here, too, and are excellent, but not the same.
I’m 31 and have been taking in more British media than the average Yank my whole life, and I’ve noticed that it used to be that cookies where the American term for what Brits call biscuits, cut and dry. But then I guess the popularity of “Chocolate Chip Cookies” (which are from the US) gave rise to some soft biscuits being called cookies in the UK. That being said, all British biscuits, hard or soft, would be classified as cookies in America. That you all for coming to my TEDTalk 🍪
Many decades ago during the turn of the 19 to early 20th century, American cookies were referred to as "biscuits," and the leading baking company was Nabisco, which stands for "National Biscuit Company." The old Nabisco building is now the popular Chelsea Market in Manhattan's infamous Meatpacking district (near the Highline elevated park). The old signage still exists on the side of the building. What Americans now, call "cookies" comes from the German word "Küchen" (kekes/cakes), influenced by German immigrants who opened bakeries in cities like NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and other towns with growing German populations. Cookies became the popular name , replacing the word biscuits. Now, biscuits in the USA are commonly referred to as the non-sweet scone-like bread served across the South.
Several years ago a Girl Scout posted reviews of all the different cookies available at the time. She said which ones she loved and was pretty brutal about the ones she hated. It got her a lot of publicity, and she made a lot of sales. Thin Mints are best when they're frozen. When mariuana first became legal, some Girl Scouts set up cookie stands outside of cannabis dispensaries. Great marketing!
Hilarious on the thin mints. "I could plow through those.". And that's exactly how we all eat Thin Mint GS cookies over here. We can't help ourselves, we will eat the entire sleeve. They sell those the most because people buy multiple boxes of them so they can have some tomorrow.
Love the lemon, thin mints & shortbread. My office has had quite a few children in the girl scouts, so I try to spread my purchases out to all of them. Usually I end up with about 10 boxes. I'm certainly not complaining.
@@dannyjoe3343 As much as I like Thin Mints, cookies in general were not my favorite dessert. So a couple of thin mints every now and again was perfect.
I love that they are delving into the older Jolly videos, which are my favs!. These 2 in a studio by themselves are really funny 😂! So much content there to explore. Hopefully you react to more
There are two different baking compaines (ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers) used for producing GS cookies. GS troops in different regions of the US call the cookies by different names accordding to which baker they use. I am in GA.... those in the purple box are called Samoas here. We also call the cookies in the red box Tagalongs. The shortbread are called Trefoils. The lemon cookies are called Lemonades in this area, and they do not have those messages on them. Also, we have a peanut butter sandwich cookie called Do-Si-Do's. It is just a matter of where you live in the US as to what they would be called and labeled on the boxes.
I believe the brownie cookie got its name from the Brownies and not the food brownie. A Brownie is a scout troop for very young girls between the ages of 5 and 9 or 10. Once a girl in scouting reaches a certain age they move on to the Girl Scouts. Boys do the same thing: First is Cub Scouts, then Webelos and then Boy Scouts
Yeah I remember selling chocolates as a boy scout as a kid, I think the chocolates are more comman than popcorn tbh because I barely even remember if there was boy scouts popcorn
So i was a Brownie Scout, then a Girl Scout back many years ago. Most parents did the pressure to buy back then to coworkers. Not my parents, super over protective and not pushing something onto others. Still they would buy a few boxes for our house. The peanut butter ones were called Savanahs and my favorites!
I grew up in the 60's eating homemade shortbread every holiday season made in a round aluminum pie pan. It was cut into triangular wedges (pie/pizza) shape pieces. That was called shortbread. Shortbread sold in a tin, oftentimes purchased during Christmas season or packaged (Girl Scout, Walkers, Lorna Doone, Keebler, etc.) are called cookies probably just because of the ''form'' it takes based on the origin of Scottish shortbread made in wedge form and later made in different forms called biscuits. In my home, if it is made in a pan and cut into wedges it is still called "shortbread". If I roll it into balls, flatten them, place an indent in the center and fill it with jam, then they are called shortbread cookies. Same exact ingredients just in different form. :)
It's a crime in my house to NOT put thin mints in the freezer. They're so much better cold. Samoas will always be my favorite. They're good at any temperature.
If you taste the S'mores thinking of it like a yellow cake with chocolate frosting taste, it will work. I love those, so my taste from theirs is different. They don't taste like a S'mores though, so they'll be disappointing to some. Also, they weren't sent the DoSiDos which are really good. Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie.
I think the main difference between cookies and ‘biscuits’ is that American call both ‘cookies’, whereas Brits call hard cookies ‘biscuits’. They’d call all Girl Scout cookies ‘biscuits’ because they’re hard and snap-able. Soft cookies - like oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter, etc. - they’d also call ‘cookies’.
Ummm, no, Americans have no set "rules", because shortbread is a shortbread cookie, and we certainly don't put cookies in biscuits and gravy...please, stop trying to explain things you haven't grasped yourself, yet. 😂
@@malcolmdrake6137 I’d suggest reading what was actually written before spouting some inane nonsense of putting cookies in biscuits and gravy, genius. Then consider the context of the video and the comment.😛
THIN MINT Cookies are GREAT!! You cane slightly crush them up and stir them into Softened Vanilla Ice Cream..then REFREEZE that Ice Cream and have a WONDERFUL Frozen Treat for later!! Vanilla Ice Cream with LOTS of Bits of Thin Mint Cookies in each Spoonful!!
I love girl scout cookies. Some of them for me though have a bad aftertaste but i still enjoy eating them. Also, have you guys ever saw the best of bad acting. It's so funny. I never even knew these movies existed or couldn't believe they were actually real. There is a part 1 and 2.
Thin mints have been my favorite Girl Scout cookie since I was a kid. And the best way to eat them (in my opinion) is to freeze them, they taste so much better cold. They also taste great in milkshakes.
Samoas (aka Caramel Delights) are my favorite, though you can find knockoffs in the store regularly. It's a cookie layered with caramel, absolutely covered in toasted coconut and has stripes of milk chocolate.
So idk if it's because my family is Caribbean but there are some cookies we call biscuits. Maybe I was just blind to youthful impressions tho...i didnt know a lot of people outside of my famoly that ate biscuit cookies like the biscuits you guys know of. Fun video!
I like the caramel delights the most. Shortbread with caramel and chocolate drizzle and some coconut!! For a couple years they had some mango cream cookies that i absolutely LOVED!!!! I guess other people didn't share my opinion because they discontinued them!! I dont like peanut butter at all. They have some lemon cookies that are pretty good.
lol I used to be a den leader for the cub scouts, and we had pin pals from the UK, Germany, and Australia. We got pictures and magazines and such. We sent them volcanic ash used for forensic fingerprinting. Ok we sent a whole forensic kit but customs cut the ash bag open and ......ever seen how printer ink powder spreads? lololol i cant imagine. And when we got a letter back a month later it was covered in ash. lololololol
I’m gonna go out on my on limb and say…..the shortbread are 🔥! Always been my favorite. Not the most popular but those with a glass a milk…..eewwwwweeeee! 🔥
@@Nelle606 Sometimes just to switch it up, I will melt a little bit of chocolate in the microwave and then dunk half the cookie in the chocolate and place a few of them in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. Delicious. :)
The top three are the top three for a reason. So good. And the differences in the names of the samoas/caramel delights and tagalongs/peanutbutter parties is because there 2 different bakeries in order to handle the demand. And for some trademark reason one can't use the proprietary names.
Samoas girl scout cookies really are the best of the bunch imo. Every time I've been to someone's house and they've got a few boxes of different types, the Samoas cookies always run out first. The others aren't bad but you can tell what's best by what goes empty first
not really a girl scout cookie buyer but when local little leagues do their fundraisers with subs I easily throw down 25-30$ per order (2-3 times a summer baseball, soccer and sometimes a "going to camp" fundraiser)
The first year Colorado made cannabis legal, a girl set up outside the first dispensary and sold thousands of boxes in a weekend! Made national news. I used to stock up on Thin Mints and Tagalongs every year, buying at least 10 of each and freezing them to last through the year. A lot of baking companies have put out their own versions of GS cookie flavors, but they never seem to taste quite right.
The shortbread does NOT taste like "Walkers" which I absolutely love. This mints are so popular. People wait all year until the Girl Scout cookies roll out.
Ok so get a scoop of pistachio ice-cream, one soooper scoop of rockey road and one of black walnut. Then whip these girl scout cookies out and crumble all of them on your mound of icecream. I throw in extra pistachios and crumbled up cones topped with butterscotch and hot cocolate. Bannas too. Bananas and crushed up tagalongs is the bomb.
Thin mints and Carmel Delites (growing up they were called Samoas in my region.....regionally four Girl Scouts had two different names for their cookies....the ones I grew up with are first, i.e samoas = caramel delites, do-si-do's = peanut butter sandwiches, tagalongs = peanut butter cookies, and trefoils = shortbreads). What they are saying about the two different bakeries extends to the names as well, that is why some of them have different names. The two different bakeries are ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. The bakeries own the rights to the names, not the Girl Scouts and the same goes for some of the recipes. That is why Thin Mints, S'mores, Somoas, Do-si-do's, Tagalongs and Trefoils taste different depending on what region you are in. Also he said Tagalongs just right. It said like tag a long.
Girl Scouts USA contracts with two companies to manufacture their cookies. One company holds the rights to use the specific cookie name. The other company has to use the other name. The recipe for both are the same.
They should try Girl Scout cookie ice cream. It contains cookie bits. There’s thin mint ice cream which I never buy because I don’t like mint with chocolate. My favorite is the Samoas ice cream. Heavenly.
After watching all these food videos I kind of have to ask… does Aiden even eat ? The amount of food he’s either never heard of or wouldn’t eat is astounding. 😂😂😂
People who bake will call cookies biscuits in the US when they are part of something else to distinguish from other types of cookies. When they say that they mean the crunchy biscuit that might be an element of another dessert or candy. But everyone else does for the most part lump it all in under the word cookie.
I was a brownie, girl scout n I became a leader taking girls on camping survival trips Founded 1912. The scout that sold the most got a bonus n badge. My dad took me to his office building Sunoco oil company n all his friends on the 16 floors knew me n surprised me. I worked hard for this packing up u-haul with dad n taking to all floors Back when I was in scouts the box cost $,75 - $1,25 n now I think they are $3,00- $400
Gaynor you are always lovely please try your best to ignore the common youtube idiot who has to comment negatively. This is fairly new to her so I just hope she doesnt take any of it for gospel
Samoas are my favorite. I try not to make eye contact with the girl scouts when they set up their booths but they always seem to spot me. They are so cute I have to buy from them. My cousin was a scout only one year because she ate a bunch of boxes and my auntie had to pay for them. 😂
Great channel! I wanna go out and get some Girl Scout cookies now. I’ve got a question. When you order cookies and cream ice cream, do you ask for cookies and cream, or cookies and biscuits? 😂
Yes, there are several that are named different depending on location. Out east here, it was only recently that lemon was available while I think it has been out west for a long time
The Girl Scout cookie sales help fund trips for the girls, nature hikes, camping, and donating goods and services to local organizations such as animal care and helping the elderly. These projects also help the girls earn their merit badges.
Oh so if they go on a field trip or camping then the girls don’t have to pay anything to go and for what they would need on it cause the money they got selling cookies pays for all of the costs? But then i wonder what happens if the girls weren’t able to sell much so didn’t make much money, maybe the Girl Scout organization gives them money for it from the total amount that was made by all of the Girl Scout troops across the US
Boy scouts regionally sell a variety of items but generally sell popcorn.
Also, Aidan's knowledge gap has Sophie so confused, I remember she asked him if he knows how long a decade is.🤣
Here in middle georgia where im from they had us sell chocolate bars of different kinds.
@@d420guy9 Grew up in a suburb outside of Houston and I remember we sold candy, and even firewood at one point.
@@samsalas9323 no way firewood really lol
@@d420guy9 LOL, Yep...all about being resourceful.
Yep firewood Austin texas
We sold beef jerky door to door to get money for summer camp in the boy scouts in Nevada
Do-si-dos (dough-see-doughs) are one of my all time favorite flavors next to the short bread cookies. its a peanut butter flavored cookie with peanut butter in between the cookies, so freaking good. So underrated lol
Girl scout cookies are very addicting main problem is realizing you didn't buy enough
It’s never enough lol
They are expensive also but addictive.
The only thing they did wrong with the Thin Mints, was they didn't put them in the freezer over night before eating them.
In some US cities...the girl scouts are outside of grocery stores, etc selling the cookies. The thin mint cookies are my favorite and the BEST!!!!!
Samoas and Thin Mints are my favorite. I like to throw the box of Thin Mints in my freezer. Justs adds a whole new depth of flavor that makes it taste even better.
there are ice cream shops i used to go to that would have packages of girlscout cookies and you could pay extra to have them quickly pulse chop up frozen thin mints and samosas to add as a topping to sundaes or shakes. .
That’s a brilliant idea
Why wouldn't Jon Snow do that ? Sounds Delicious I'm going to try it since winter is coming.
Sophie was legit frustrated that Aidan didn't know what an After Eight is. Funny stuff. 😊
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We call them the Girl Scout Cartel here in Texas. There’s NO WAY of avoiding them! Them little girls know how to sell and negotiate at such a young age, true business girls for sure. Once you buy your first box, that’s it, you’re hooked for life. I can stop eating them after I start
they set up in front of grocery store shops which gives people two opportunites to cave and by GSC everytime you go shopping.
The problem with thin mints is once you start you’ll finish the whole box before you know it.
The old Thin Mints were somewhat like After 8 mints except there was a bottom layer that was a thin cookie (or biscuit. The newer version no longer has the thin layer of white creme. Tastes pretty similar, but I preferred the ones with the white creme. Actually, After 8s are more like a York mints or Andes mints but are square and very thin.
I never saw a thin mint that wasn’t a crispy cookie covered in mint chocolate. Must have been before my time.
Aidan: Girl Scout cookie season is huge in the US. You can’t get very far without Girl Scouts in your face, trying to sell you their cookies. They usually set up stands in the mall, in front of grocery stores, or on busy corners. Certain types sell out quickly. In offices, it’s like sports betting, everyone wants in to pre-order. When marijuana was legalized in many states, one shrewd and entrepreneurial girl in San Diego got national coverage for setting up shop in front of a marijuana dispensary, and sold a lot of boxes. These dispensaries are now coveted places to set up shop.
You now need to follow this up with the Tosh.0 video where a girl was sent to prison for stealing money from a Girl Scouts stand. Very sad on her part, but funny video.
I never see them around.
@@tc-tm1myhaven’t seen one in years but they used to come up to the door for us
girl scout cookies sell a lot because when it's that season, they are everywhere. you can't enter a grocery store, walmart, target, sams or costco without seeing a table with the small, suited up gremlins. LOL, but you also want to support them because they're doing something extremely American, that most people here can easily identify with. You set a goal, and you attain it. it's not just given to you. i buy five to ten boxes a season and will give them out to various people like co-workers. my favorite are the samoas, followed by the tagalongs (pronounced tag-a-long). the thin mints are nice too, but come in third for me. also, i feel like a lot of people here do call shortbreads, shortbreads. but a lot of people also call them cookies. in my family, we've always called them shortbread cookies, like sandies or biscochos.
I’m American and I’ve seen those After Eights
Thank you Gaynor for explaining how Girl Scout cookies work. Decades ago, my mom was a Girl Scout Troop leader, and we sold to our neighbors, our family, our church, our friends, our teachers, our school sports teams, and more. We had a huge family room wall to wall full of cookie orders for hundreds of people one year. Mom was a saint for helping to organize the orders for her three girl scouts year after year. ❤
My favorites are peanut butter patties, and thin mints. Some people like to freeze the thin mints. Finally, the Girl Scouts organization has two major bakers that fulfill the orders.
Being a former Girl Scout, cookie sales are so much fun and very competitive. It helps the girls get out and socialize with friends and neighbors. The thin mints and samoas are best eaten frozen, personally. There are just a few original cookie flavors left from when I was a Girl Scout but the Lemon Delights are very good. Hope you are able to try them sometime soon.
I guarantee 800 Million is not given back to the girl scouts for "funding". 😂
As a country where most everyone has a car, it's very easy to sell girl scout cookies...set up a table in a parking lot next to a busy road. Done!
They often set up in from of supermarkets too. You have people who are already food shopping. Plus a lot of parents take the order sheet to work.
I think shortbread is usually just called shortbread here in the US.
When I was in the navy, we would receive a couple hundred boxes of these when we'd hit a friendly port while on deployment. They'd be gone before the end of the day!
Samoas are the best. Yes, these are cookies here. A biscuit here is what you see with biscuits and gravy (white flour gravy, sausage, pepper) or with butter and jam, preserves, etc.--really good with apple butter. Often I see UK people calling these biscuits scones, but they are not the same at all--very flaky and not sweet, but buttery instead. We have scones here, too, and are excellent, but not the same.
I’m 31 and have been taking in more British media than the average Yank my whole life, and I’ve noticed that it used to be that cookies where the American term for what Brits call biscuits, cut and dry. But then I guess the popularity of “Chocolate Chip Cookies” (which are from the US) gave rise to some soft biscuits being called cookies in the UK. That being said, all British biscuits, hard or soft, would be classified as cookies in America.
That you all for coming to my TEDTalk 🍪
Many decades ago during the turn of the 19 to early 20th century, American cookies were referred to as "biscuits," and the leading baking company was Nabisco, which stands for "National Biscuit Company." The old Nabisco building is now the popular Chelsea Market in Manhattan's infamous Meatpacking district (near the Highline elevated park). The old signage still exists on the side of the building. What Americans now, call "cookies" comes from the German word "Küchen" (kekes/cakes), influenced by German immigrants who opened bakeries in cities like NYC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and other towns with growing German populations. Cookies became the popular name , replacing the word biscuits. Now, biscuits in the USA are commonly referred to as the non-sweet scone-like bread served across the South.
Several years ago a Girl Scout posted reviews of all the different cookies available at the time. She said which ones she loved and was pretty brutal about the ones she hated. It got her a lot of publicity, and she made a lot of sales.
Thin Mints are best when they're frozen.
When mariuana first became legal, some Girl Scouts set up cookie stands outside of cannabis dispensaries. Great marketing!
Hilarious on the thin mints. "I could plow through those.". And that's exactly how we all eat Thin Mint GS cookies over here. We can't help ourselves, we will eat the entire sleeve. They sell those the most because people buy multiple boxes of them so they can have some tomorrow.
Hah! When Ollie said ‘hey, Siri’ 9:17 , my iPad asked if he could repeat the question!😛
Love the lemon, thin mints & shortbread. My office has had quite a few children in the girl scouts, so I try to spread my purchases out to all of them. Usually I end up with about 10 boxes. I'm certainly not complaining.
Thin mints are my favorite. I used to buy 2 boxes of thin mints each year and pop one in the freezer so I could have them all year round.
Pffffft! All yr round? 2 boxes would'nt last the wkend in my house.
@@dannyjoe3343 As much as I like Thin Mints, cookies in general were not my favorite dessert. So a couple of thin mints every now and again was perfect.
I love that they are delving into the older Jolly videos, which are my favs!. These 2 in a studio by themselves are really funny 😂! So much content there to explore. Hopefully you react to more
Aiden, you said she sold that many boxes in a year ? They only sell the cookies for less than 2 months. This year it was Jan 16th thru March 5th.
There are two different baking compaines (ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers) used for producing GS cookies. GS troops in different regions of the US call the cookies by different names accordding to which baker they use. I am in GA.... those in the purple box are called Samoas here. We also call the cookies in the red box Tagalongs. The shortbread are called Trefoils. The lemon cookies are called Lemonades in this area, and they do not have those messages on them. Also, we have a peanut butter sandwich cookie called Do-Si-Do's. It is just a matter of where you live in the US as to what they would be called and labeled on the boxes.
I believe the brownie cookie got its name from the Brownies and not the food brownie. A Brownie is a scout troop for very young girls between the ages of 5 and 9 or 10. Once a girl in scouting reaches a certain age they move on to the Girl Scouts.
Boys do the same thing: First is Cub Scouts, then Webelos and then Boy Scouts
I believe it was Daisy, Brownie, Girl Scout, and then Senior Scout in high school.
The Boy Scouts sold popcorn
Don’t they do the chocolates too?
@@tyreek.6815yes we sell Oliver's Candy and Popcorn. But Popcorn is the main thing sold.
It's pricey
I didn't know that.
Yeah I remember selling chocolates as a boy scout as a kid, I think the chocolates are more comman than popcorn tbh because I barely even remember if there was boy scouts popcorn
Gaynor is like an interpreter, only instead of interpreting different languages she interprets and explains and different culture.
So i was a Brownie Scout, then a Girl Scout back many years ago. Most parents did the pressure to buy back then to coworkers. Not my parents, super over protective and not pushing something onto others. Still they would buy a few boxes for our house. The peanut butter ones were called Savanahs and my favorites!
Shortbread is definitely a cookie here. It’s not just shortbread. Here we associate shortbread with cookies.
I grew up in the 60's eating homemade shortbread every holiday season made in a round aluminum pie pan. It was cut into triangular wedges (pie/pizza) shape pieces. That was called shortbread.
Shortbread sold in a tin, oftentimes purchased during Christmas season or packaged (Girl Scout, Walkers, Lorna Doone, Keebler, etc.) are called cookies probably just because of the ''form'' it takes based on the origin of Scottish shortbread made in wedge form and later made in different forms called biscuits.
In my home, if it is made in a pan and cut into wedges it is still called "shortbread". If I roll it into balls, flatten them, place an indent in the center and fill it with jam, then they are called shortbread cookies. Same exact ingredients just in different form. :)
It's a crime in my house to NOT put thin mints in the freezer. They're so much better cold. Samoas will always be my favorite. They're good at any temperature.
If you taste the S'mores thinking of it like a yellow cake with chocolate frosting taste, it will work. I love those, so my taste from theirs is different. They don't taste like a S'mores though, so they'll be disappointing to some. Also, they weren't sent the DoSiDos which are really good. Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie.
When I was in the boy scouts we had a concession stand outside of Michigan stadium on game day to raise money. GO BLUE.
Yes! Go Blue 💙
Samoas are my favorite. They ascend to another level of deliciousness if you pop ‘em in the microwave for 10 seconds.
Samoas in the microwave and Thin Mints in the freezer. Can't go wrong.
I will have to try them in the microwave next time.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover Girl Scout ice cream a few years ago. It was Samoas!
interesting... they are my favorite too, but I put them in the freezer. I will have to try microwaving this year
I think the main difference between cookies and ‘biscuits’ is that American call both ‘cookies’, whereas Brits call hard cookies ‘biscuits’. They’d call all Girl Scout cookies ‘biscuits’ because they’re hard and snap-able. Soft cookies - like oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter, etc. - they’d also call ‘cookies’.
Thx
Ummm, no, Americans have no set "rules", because shortbread is a shortbread cookie, and we certainly don't put cookies in biscuits and gravy...please, stop trying to explain things you haven't grasped yourself, yet. 😂
@@malcolmdrake6137 I’d suggest reading what was actually written before spouting some inane nonsense of putting cookies in biscuits and gravy, genius. Then consider the context of the video and the comment.😛
From what I have learned after 40 plus years watching British media...a biscuit is a thin American cookie.
I will tell you that Thin Mints are better out of the Freezer! My favorite are the Peanut Butter Patties!
THIN MINT Cookies are GREAT!! You cane slightly crush them up and stir them into Softened Vanilla Ice Cream..then REFREEZE that Ice Cream and have a WONDERFUL Frozen Treat for later!! Vanilla Ice Cream with LOTS of Bits of Thin Mint Cookies in each Spoonful!!
I love girl scout cookies. Some of them for me though have a bad aftertaste but i still enjoy eating them. Also, have you guys ever saw the best of bad acting. It's so funny. I never even knew these movies existed or couldn't believe they were actually real. There is a part 1 and 2.
Thin mints have been my favorite Girl Scout cookie since I was a kid. And the best way to eat them (in my opinion) is to freeze them, they taste so much better cold. They also taste great in milkshakes.
Theres a peanut butter sandwich cookie called do-si-do cookies that girls scouts sell too.. i love those
Frozen Thin Mints are awesome.
Samoas (aka Caramel Delights) are my favorite, though you can find knockoffs in the store regularly. It's a cookie layered with caramel, absolutely covered in toasted coconut and has stripes of milk chocolate.
Frozen thin mints and samoas are the best treats ever. Same with Girl Scout flavored ice cream.
I cannot believe that Aiden has never heard of After 8s - he’s pulling our legs.😂
Set em’ straight on the cookies vs biscuits G…😁😊
So idk if it's because my family is Caribbean but there are some cookies we call biscuits. Maybe I was just blind to youthful impressions tho...i didnt know a lot of people outside of my famoly that ate biscuit cookies like the biscuits you guys know of. Fun video!
That coconut/caramel
Is most awesome!
Caramel delights go crazy
I remember hearing of a girl scout who also set a sales record in her city by setting up a sales table outside of a marijuana dispensary.
I wonder how that little girl knew about weed "munchies". Mom and dad? lol
They're great with milk, coffee or tea. Freeze them and dunk them. Perfection.
I like the caramel delights the most. Shortbread with caramel and chocolate drizzle and some coconut!! For a couple years they had some mango cream cookies that i absolutely LOVED!!!! I guess other people didn't share my opinion because they discontinued them!! I dont like peanut butter at all. They have some lemon cookies that are pretty good.
lol I used to be a den leader for the cub scouts, and we had pin pals from the UK, Germany, and Australia. We got pictures and magazines and such. We sent them volcanic ash used for forensic fingerprinting. Ok we sent a whole forensic kit but customs cut the ash bag open and ......ever seen how printer ink powder spreads? lololol i cant imagine. And when we got a letter back a month later it was covered in ash. lololololol
I’m gonna go out on my on limb and say…..the shortbread are 🔥! Always been my favorite. Not the most popular but those with a glass a milk…..eewwwwweeeee! 🔥
shortbread girl scout cookies dipped in a hot chocolate is the best!
@@Nelle606 Sometimes just to switch it up, I will melt a little bit of chocolate in the microwave and then dunk half the cookie in the chocolate and place a few of them in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. Delicious. :)
Lemonups and Tagalongs are my personal favorite. The Samoas have a different name depending on the region you are buying them in.
Tagalongs were called Peanut Butter Patties when I was a Girl Scout many eons ago.
The top three are the top three for a reason. So good. And the differences in the names of the samoas/caramel delights and tagalongs/peanutbutter parties is because there 2 different bakeries in order to handle the demand. And for some trademark reason one can't use the proprietary names.
A good hack on the thin mints is to nibble all the way around them then dunk in milk It makes the milk soak up much faster
Samoas girl scout cookies really are the best of the bunch imo. Every time I've been to someone's house and they've got a few boxes of different types, the Samoas cookies always run out first. The others aren't bad but you can tell what's best by what goes empty first
I bought a big tub of popcorn from the Boy Scouts one year. Very good
not really a girl scout cookie buyer but when local little leagues do their fundraisers with subs I easily throw down 25-30$ per order (2-3 times a summer baseball, soccer and sometimes a "going to camp" fundraiser)
The first year Colorado made cannabis legal, a girl set up outside the first dispensary and sold thousands of boxes in a weekend! Made national news. I used to stock up on Thin Mints and Tagalongs every year, buying at least 10 of each and freezing them to last through the year. A lot of baking companies have put out their own versions of GS cookie flavors, but they never seem to taste quite right.
Samoas are by far and away my favorite. They're so good.
The shortbread cookie is my favorite. I dunk them in black coffee.
Boy Scouts sell popcorn, last time I checked,, which was some years ago. I volunteered to work in the factory once, that's how I know.
The shortbread does NOT taste like "Walkers" which I absolutely love. This mints are so popular. People wait all year until the Girl Scout cookies roll out.
In my town the boys scouts sold Christmas trees!
Ok so get a scoop of pistachio ice-cream, one soooper scoop of rockey road and one of black walnut. Then whip these girl scout cookies out and crumble all of them on your mound of icecream. I throw in extra pistachios and crumbled up cones topped with butterscotch and hot cocolate. Bannas too. Bananas and crushed up tagalongs is the bomb.
They set up booths infront of stores where I live and I can never resist. The boyscouts sell popcorn i think
And over here, we also batter and deep fry the Thin Mint cookies!
Thin mints and Carmel Delites (growing up they were called Samoas in my region.....regionally four Girl Scouts had two different names for their cookies....the ones I grew up with are first, i.e samoas = caramel delites, do-si-do's = peanut butter sandwiches, tagalongs = peanut butter cookies, and trefoils = shortbreads). What they are saying about the two different bakeries extends to the names as well, that is why some of them have different names. The two different bakeries are ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers. The bakeries own the rights to the names, not the Girl Scouts and the same goes for some of the recipes. That is why Thin Mints, S'mores, Somoas, Do-si-do's, Tagalongs and Trefoils taste different depending on what region you are in.
Also he said Tagalongs just right. It said like tag a long.
Gaynor you are correct 👍. All of those fall under the umbrella term of cookies in the USA
I do enjoy Penguin biscuits, Jaffa cakes and pinwheels.
The Samoas are hands down my favorite!! So good!
I know boy scouts sell wreaths in the fall months so they can be delivered for winter.
Caramel Delights and Samoas are the same thing. It just depends on the region where they are sold.
Girl Scouts USA contracts with two companies to manufacture their cookies. One company holds the rights to use the specific cookie name. The other company has to use the other name.
The recipe for both are the same.
They should try Girl Scout cookie ice cream. It contains cookie bits.
There’s thin mint ice cream which I never buy because I don’t like mint with chocolate.
My favorite is the Samoas ice cream. Heavenly.
I actually horde girl scout cookies in my freezer to make them last as long as I can since since they are seasonal.
After watching all these food videos I kind of have to ask… does Aiden even eat ? The amount of food he’s either never heard of or wouldn’t eat is astounding. 😂😂😂
Brilliant!
brownies are also the just the name for troops prior to girl scouts
No American home is complete without a box of thin mints is the freezer...you have to stock up before they're gone for the season.
People who bake will call cookies biscuits in the US when they are part of something else to distinguish from other types of cookies. When they say that they mean the crunchy biscuit that might be an element of another dessert or candy. But everyone else does for the most part lump it all in under the word cookie.
Your right, we call everything cookies, except brownies!
I was a brownie, girl scout n I became a leader taking girls on camping survival trips Founded 1912. The scout that sold the most got a bonus n badge. My dad took me to his office building Sunoco oil company n all his friends on the 16 floors knew me n surprised me. I worked hard for this packing up u-haul with dad n taking to all floors Back when I was in scouts the box cost $,75 - $1,25 n now I think they are $3,00- $400
Boxes are now $ 5.00, I'll donate to the troop or buy 2 boxes. But Aldi has a fairly decent knock off when available.
You can only get the cookies once a year! You gotta stock up and keep them in the freezer!!
Thin Mints and Tagalongs all day! They're my favorite.
Gaynor you are always lovely please try your best to ignore the common youtube idiot who has to comment negatively. This is fairly new to her so I just hope she doesnt take any of it for gospel
Samoas are my favorite. I try not to make eye contact with the girl scouts when they set up their booths but they always seem to spot me. They are so cute I have to buy from them.
My cousin was a scout only one year because she ate a bunch of boxes and my auntie had to pay for them. 😂
Great channel! I wanna go out and get some Girl Scout cookies now. I’ve got a question. When you order cookies and cream ice cream, do you ask for cookies and cream, or cookies and biscuits? 😂
i thought the samoa cookies and caramel delights were the same but different names depending on where they're sold.
Yep... I believe there may be one or two different ingredients in each, but basically the same cookie.... depends on which bakery company made them.
Yes, there are several that are named different depending on location. Out east here, it was only recently that lemon was available while I think it has been out west for a long time
I’m from Wisconsin US and we also have those marshmallow cookies, my dad liked them …. but I also don’t know what they’re called lol
I googled it- Jam Mallows 👍🏻
We don’t need multiple names for cookies lol
I love the mints
Frozen thin mints are fire!