The thin mints are extraordinary when they're cold. And the Samoans are just sublime. The girl who broke the record during girl scout cookie season was selling her cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary.,
Ollie, the majority of Girl Scout cookies are eaten in a closet for two reasons 1) so no one else can have any. 2) because we don’t want anyone to know just how many we ate 😂❤
From a former Girl Scout, three things: 1. Thin mints are better frozen 2. Samoas are better cold 3. The lemon cookies used to be DELICIOUS but they keep changing them (the best was when it was a plain cookie with lemon frosting in the shape of whatever the shortbread ones are called)
As a former Girl Scout, I can tell you that GSC season is a major deal. The money we made by selling cookies funded our yearly camping trips, national convention trips and yearly dues. The Caramel Delights and Samoas are the exact same cookie they just come from a different cookie distributor. Great looking uniform Ollie, I think you are well on your way to earning an "Ambassador Cookie Influencer Badge"....yes, that's a real thing. ☺
It's true, the money we made for our troop selling cookies was such a big deal. We took a summer camping trip every year to different places across the country and there were girls in my troop who couldn't have afforded to do that without us all working hard to sell cookies.
Yes! It really helped pre-sale season to be an older scout since you could sell to you classmates, but was definitely harder on location….people don’t feel as bad saying no to teenagers over elementary schoolers. and I know it’s gone up to $5(?) a box, but back when I sold them at $4, we only earned 60¢/box. Not many people realize how hard we worked for not much reward. Where I lived, it was cold and rainy all cookie season and we’re not allowed to set up our tables inside the shops (Girl Scout rule). We technically weren’t even supposed to wear jackets over our uniforms, which thankfully our guardians usually let slide. I know they’re expensive, but I always buy one when asked and give it to the girls. I remember feeling so nice getting cookies from a stranger after standing outside for 2 hours.
From an American: Samoas are definitely the best, though thin mints are the most popular. And since you guys liked the thin mints, I’ll give you a pro tip. Stick a sleeve of them in the freezer. Then they are at their best, in my opinion. Enjoy! 💜
One of the secrets of eating the most favorite type of cookie, the Thin Mint, is to freeze them first. When it's frozen, it snaps which makes it even more delicious. I hope you try it that way (if you have any left over). Enjoy!!
My mom always got milk, bit a tiny bit from the top and the bottom of the thin min, then used the cookie like a straw. Looks ridiculous but it's so good!
Oh my god, all my life watching these American tv shows where they were talking about selling girl scout cookies, I was thinking that girl scout cookies are cookies actually made by girl scouts! I was so naive 😅
I can see why you might think the girl scout cookies were made by girl scouts. I think many people think like you. They are actually made by various bakeries under the license from Girl Scouts of the USA, a non profit organization.
I thought so too. Who wants to buy a factory cookie with girl scouts on the packet? I thought learning how to bake, package and market cookies was all part of the challenge for the girl scouts? America is just awful. Next you are going to tell me that lemonade stands are owned by Nestle.
@@TomTomLo1 to be fair it acts as a fundraiser for their local Girl Scout’s council respectively. That money is used to then donate to local charities or animal shelters, used to take the girls on wilderness activities and such~ i wouldn’t shame it at all! As someone in music as a kid, we fundraised as well and all that money would go to buying new instruments, going to really nice 2 week vacation trips where we would preform in let’s say a Disney World Parade for example and such, new uniforms. I would imagine it’s the exact same use for them! ☺️ it doesn’t go to some big corporation or anything, it (raised funds) 100% stays with the local Girl Scout group :)
Fun fact: thin mints have passed Oreos as the most sold cookie in America. When I was a Girl Scout I had so many friends and family members literally spend 50 dollars on a case (12 boxes of thin mints) to just keep and store in their freeze so they could enjoy it yearround.
Walmart has their knock off brand of thin mints and samoas that are better than the girl scout cookies! There are a few others that Walmart does...like the tagalong...omg...yummy...I'll go with 3 bucks instead of 5 or whatever it is these days 😂
I think I've reason they were so popular when I was a GS was they only had a few kinds, you had to sell them door to door (guess pedos didn't exist back then. You took the order then delivered them weeks later and that was it for the year. There was so much FOMO and people would buy a bunch and freeze them. Somewhere somehow it morphed into the sell on your website or get your parents to sell them, and also the weird flavors they keep trying.
When my daughters were younger, I was their girl scout leader. All of the girls in the troop sold over 2500 boxes each. I was surprised that the girls could sell that many boxes. Thin mints has been the biggest seller for years. This year a friend who has 2 daughters knew I would buy them. each box is now $5.00 each. Even though they are $5.00 each, people will pay it since it benefits the girls. I ended up spending $125.00 this year. My daughters are 40 yrs old now and they have children also and my grand-daughters now sell them.
You know what, the girl scouts cookies is actually a pretty savvy and clever business. They unintentionally _"use"_ young girls/kids to promote their products for them and it's succeed *MASSIVELY*
When I was a girl guide I sold like 20 boxes a year… how much time do they spend selling cookies in America? That would take forever! And where do they go to manage to sell that much each? Do they not run out of people?
I am a Girl Scout troop leader in Mississippi, USA. Our troop has 8-10 year old girls. We just finished our cookie season. The girls have so much fun and they end up learning a lot (money handling, planning, communication skills...) We are so excited to see yall enjoy these cookies!!
As a Samoan, I can confirm we definitely smell like caramel and coconut, and have a dark chocolate complexion. So yes, it makes sense that we'd make the ultimate cookie. What can I say? The Big Man upstairs did a great job 🤷🏾♂️
Girl Scout cookies are amazing Frozen. These are “seasonal” because they’re an annual fundraising event. It’s amazing marketing because they’re limited time! The different names are because the cookies are a National treasure and some names are regional. Also, try the shortbread with hot cocoa! Brownie, lemon and s’mores are new. There is usually some kind of lemon one. They add new ones per year to see what people like.
I bought a box of the "lemonades" (round with glaze on the bottom, but no messages) and they didn't last a week. The bakery changed the following year and I ended up getting "Savannah smiles" lemon slice shaped with powdered sugar... They didn't survive the ride home. 😅🤤
As an ex-girl scout, Tagalongs and Thin Mints are my favorites. 🤤 A great place to sell cookies is near a university because college kids go HAM! (Can confirm as a university student - my housemates and I bought 20 boxes of Thin Mints in one go and bought more when we saw another girl selling cookies a week and a half later) 😅
My sophomore year roommate was kind enough to share these with me before finals. There was a troop that would come to our campus in April and I'm sure they made plenty of bank off of us. I never bought them personally since I was on scholarship and I was broke as hell, considering how expensive they were compared to the stuff you could buy from Walmart or Dollar General.....
Ok that's smart. All that cookie stress eating during midterms and finals when you don't even have time to get real food makes for a good cookie selling market.
this is so accurate cuz im a college sophomore and i saw this girl selling and freaking sped over to her and her mom but when I checked my wallet i didn’t have any cash. tell me why i was stood there having this girl gimme her damn cashapp so I could buy like four boxes of cookies 😭😭😭
Omg, Ollie's outfit is so cute and it really suit him. Beside that the cookies looks so good, I haven't tried a girl scout cookies in my life and now I'm craving cookies.
Girl guide cookies are very big in Canada too. I love them! They sell thousands of boxes a year just in my province alone. It is worth checking them out and trying them if you ever get around to it :)
@@lillithveil Of course, they look so good but sadly I'm from the other side of the world but if I get a chance to taste it I will not decline the offer.
My sister bought 200 boxes to send to her son who was serving in the Army in Iraq. When he got the boxes - he had great fun passing them out to other soldiers.
Wow that's a cool and great idea. My sister used to send my nephew stuff to share when he was in Iraq as well. His little sister was in about 3rd grade and they 'adopted' his group (whatever you call it) and would write individual letters to each man at Christmas and made little homemade cards for each one
We aren't eating these with our grandparents. We're binging them late at night and then feeling guilty about it. Everyone has their favorites. The Samoas/Caramel Delights are mine, but thin mints are a close second. I've heard that the girls who sell cookies outside of dispensaries do quite well. The cookies are kind of expensive, but they are for a good cause and they are delicious.
I agree the samosas are my favorite and thin mints are second. Which confuses me because I dispies coconut and don't care for dark chocolate. But I can't get enough of these cookies.
Definitely not just for grandparents. Everyone gets excited about Girlscout Cookie season. I bought two boxes just for myself (one Thin Mint and one Tagalong) and ate both boxes in a week.... Worth it.
I'm curios: how expensive are these cookies? And how many are in a box? Two boxes of something that just seems to be avaible few months a year doesn't sound like too much tough
To be clear, the reason the shortbread are so popular is because they’ve been around forever and they’re the cookie of choice for the elderly. And no, they’re not eaten in front of your grandma, they are almost exclusively eaten, an entire box at a time, by oneself in absolute shame. But they’re sooooooo good!!!! Side note: Boy Scouts sell popcorn. It’s not nearly as good as the cookies, but it does exist.
Helped my boys sell popcorn for YEARS. It's not bad, until you factor in the price. The smallest item is a box of microwave popcorn for $10, and it goes up from there to ridiculous levels for the flavored ready-to-eat canisters. At $4 a box, Girl Scout Cookies are a much better value.
I love shortbread and I was ready to disagree with you on your comment that it is the choice of the elderly. Then I remembered my age, and it was like, "Oh crap, she's right", To be fair though, I've loved shortbread long before I became a geezer.
My cat has definitely stolen my snack bag of these and I found my ziploc bag of them with a hole in it under the couch. These were also the first girl scout cookies to be sold
The least favorite ones are also the newest flavors. The most popular ones were the cookie flavors that have been around for decades. They're well known established favorites not just for nostalgia but just being really good.
I was a girl's gout 50 plus years ago. The thin mints we're the most popular at that time as well. It's common for people in the US to stock up on thin mints because you can't get them for another year, and put them in the freezer.
Helpful tip: Thin mints are better chilled, for the full(better) experience put them in the freezer or refrigerator for a bit. Also note there is no point in dipping a chocolate covered cookie, the chocolate shell protects the cookie from moisture. Loved the video "peanut butta" made me laugh 😂
Yes but: 1) One dips after the first bite. Or 2) hold the entire cookie beneath the milk until the bubbles stop rising. Don't squeeze too hard or it will squish and fall off. The milk must be constantly filled to the brim and the two delicate fingers holding them get a bit wet. Tum. Great with the old Mystic Mints and Oreos of course.
Girl Scout cookies were originally made by the girls and their moms at the beginning, then they grew so much that now they have specific bakeries licensed for regulation purposes and quality/quantity control. (minus the child labor...😁)
Unpopular opinion, but children need how to learn how to work again. Keeping children and adults in school and entertaining themselves until they’re 22 or older is not making much for an able-bodied workforce capable of real life application and delayed gratification.
And before some rich fool says pay your children to do chores, not everyone has the money for that, and some of us were actually working to help support our parents even in the early 2000s as minors. No one is saying make them literal mine workers, but no one hires under 16 in my area and there are so few of those types of jobs now that they all pay so much they expect adult ability and fun minimum wage summer training jobs are no more for 12+ The whole culture has changed and even 16 year olds that won’t clean a table expect a “livable wage.” No, the minimum is literally the lowest amount you can except for any amount of work no matter how poorly done it is. You don’t get mercy when you’re making enough to support a household, and you don’t get hired at 13 when that’s the pay.
No Do-si-do cookies? They're a peanut butter sandwich cookie and they're delicious! I hope they didn't stop making them. Fond memories of selling these cookies and eating them!
This episode is fantastic. As a Girl Scout my record was 32 boxes, so those California kids are really carrying the burden. Also, next we need Juno’s opinion 😋
I'm part of the 10% of Americans that don't like mint. Still required to vote by law for Thin Mints though. Can't deny they are king for those that do love mint.
One summer I worked as a counselor at a girl scout sleepaway camp. Usually, we were provided with a healthy daily snack for the girls but some days if snack supplies were low or something we had clearance to get snack from the "cookie bunker," this secret stone fortress of girl scout cookies on camp premises. However, we were forbidden to take out Thin Mints. That stuff is chocolate gold.
Very disappointed they didn't try Do-si-do's. They are one of my favorite. That and think mint. Surprised they were not mentioned. Guys, they are back and I hope you try Them this year.
Yes! Thin Mints are best frozen! Also, looks like at least some of those cookies were from the lesser (IMO) of the two GS bakeries. Little Brownie Bakers forever!
I love how Josh says, "proper American cookie territory," and the both proceed to dunk a cookie that is impenetrable by milk without biting it first. 💀
The reason we buy them in such volume, is that you can only get them for one season during the year, and the little Girl Scouts are so adorable. They are some hard sellers. You just cannot resist them.
EXACTLY!!! 😆😆😆 And this Chinese-American thought that it was pronounced in reverse “TAG-uh-long” until I met my first Filipino in my 20’s (and now life bestie). Also, I thought that famous Filipino language was named after the even more famous GS Cookie (or vice versa).🥴😳
Alright, I'll say it. Learning how to start a fire in the wilderness is great and all, but earning and learning successful marketing and sales is an objectively more valuable skill to develop at a young age in our modern society. Sorry boy scouts, you catch as many fish as you want, I'll be eating thin mints and Samoas while you get devoured by mosquitos.
You do realize the Boy Scouts sell popcorn in the fall that they get 73% of their sales back. Troops have several different options for spring fundraisers. Girl Scouts only sees about 22% of their sales.
As a former Heart Scout, I can safely say you're wrong. Boy scouts learn skills ranging from chemistry and business to wilderness survival and basketry. Hell, there's even a merit badge for nuclear science now where one of the tasks is to build an electroscope to detect radiation.
I actually used to be a Girl Scout and I remember there were these two cookies I loved that they got rid of Savanna Smiles, which were a lemon flavored cookie wedge with this kind of powder sugar And Thanks a lots, which were a short bread cookie with a chocolate layer on the bottom and it had thanks written on them in different languages They were great and I’m very sad because they were my favorites but now it Tagalongs
omg SAVANNA SMILES! You unlocked a memory! I LOVED those. I could never remember the name but I remembered eating them. I also used to be a girl scout & my aunt was a troop leader. In our area we didn't actually get the Savanna Smiles, but my aunt was able to get a few boxes from some other troop leader & she let us try them and I remember loving them and being upset we never got to sell them. I thought I just made those cookies up cause I could never find a picture for reference but I remember the taste and the powdered sugar lol
I keep a few boxes of Thin Mints in my freezer at all times. They are so good when frozen! Also, a "sleeve" of cookies is a single serving size for me.
They suck now, just like many of them. athin mints were my favorite. Ever since they changed the names of them like tagalongs samaoas do si dos etc. They all are terrible now. Someone somewhere got offended on the behalf of other unoffended people and decided they were offensive names, then i guess the ingridients were offensive too since they are def not made the same anymore. ITs 2023 and they havent been good since maybe 2009
Fun facts: there are indeed two different bakers that are licensed to sell Girl Scout Cookies- ABC and Little Brownie Baker (subsidiary of Keebler). Each baker use the same ingredients, but have their own version of the cookie recipe. Our troop did a side-by-side comparison and can confirm the taste difference. Each council sets their own price per box and can decide which baker to use, but contracts are usually 3 years in length. The classic 5 Girl Scout cookies and 1 gluten-free option must be produced by each baker. The other cookie options can be on the chopping block like the recently departed Thanks-A-Lot and chocolate covered S'mores. LBB Lemonups replaced Savannah Smiles to compete with the more popular Lemonades from ABC. Adventurefuls is the newest cookie... basically a thin mint without the mint flavor and a weird glob of caramel in the center lol...
@@NefelibataCat ABC has 8 normal, 1 GF, and the new online only cookie. Thin mints, caramel delights, peanut butter patties, peanut butter sandwich, trefoil (previously known as shortbreads-name change this year), lemonades, adventurfules, toast-yays!, and GF caramel chocolate chip. Online only - raspberry rally.
back in the late 90s ish there was an apple cinnamon cookie and i miss those so much, i dont even remember what they were called but they were the BEST. they also came out with what i think were called lemon smiles before the current lemon ones (they were like lemon tea cookies covered in powdered sugar) and they were so much better than the current lemon cookies.
The lemon ones were GOOD.! Such as shame I think all of them suck now. THey changed them so much in the last 10 years. I refuse to buy them now, besides the fact that the price is ridiculous now.
@@TraceyJean i forgot that's what those ones were called thanks. I was a Brownie a couple years, started Girl scouts then bailed. We weren't doing anything real fun. The boys were.
Righttttttttttt!!!! It’s like they don’t understand when they have a good thing going because when I was a girl scout (98-01) they had SO many classics on the lineup that even though they can’t compete over the Big 3, could definitely still stand their ground. In the past 10-15 years, the newer cookies they keep rotating and redeveloping have all been pretty weak imo
American here - Thin mints frozen is the best ever! Haven't bought them ever since they raised the price a few years ago to a ridiculous $5. (and yes, I'm a grandma LOL) Great reaction vid, guys! Keep up the good work!
I totally agree about the pricing... I was a girl scout in the 70's and I remember being able to sell cases; not a few boxes but actual cases to my regulars. I can't imagine anyone being able (or wanting) to do that now. With 30 boxes a case, that's $150 a case. My best seller bought 3 cases of thin mints, 3 cases of Samoas, 2 cases of tagalongs & one case of shortbread a year. That would be $900 today, I was always blown away that he spent the $150 back then.
@@joannescott3461 It's funny your story about the customer who would spend 150 dollars in 1970s. If you adjusted for inflation from the early 70s, that would be worth about 900 dollars in 2022! 🤑
@@fordimension not quite but it was a lot of money. I promise you I understood how huge an order it was. Luckily he was a business owner who gifted his customers with girl scout cookies.
Also, in case those outside the US are not aware, these cookies are not sold in stores! They are only sold by Girl Scouts, door to door, or on tables in front of stores, or sometimes a parent will bring an order form to the office and you bet everyone fills that thing out. 😅
When I worked at a hospital one of the doctor's had a Girl Scout daughter, so they loaded up a little red wagon with cookies and wheeled that thing around the hospital selling cookies to anyone that wanted some. Absolute genius.
Pro-tip! Chuck the box of Thin Mints into the freezer. They're amazing when they're cold! You briefly mentioned in the video, but all Girl Scout cookies are made by two different bakeries, and the recipes are actually different! Samoas have more coconut, while Caramel DeLites have more biscuit. The most dramatic difference is in the S'mores - there's the version you got, and then the other bakery basically covered a graham cracker in marshmallow and chocolate instead of putting it between two cookies. Wish you could have had a taste test between those two!
The 2 different names are because Girl Scout cookies are made in 2 diff factories and the names are regional. Whenever I see the girls out selling I always buy a couple boxes of Thin Mints (husband's favorite) and a couple boxes of Tagalongs (my favorite). The brownie ones look like a new flavor (they often release a new limited flavor every year). The new flavors are often hit or miss. The S'mores was a new flavor they brought into the rotation but I'm not a big fan of that one either. I prefer the spiced cookie flavors they bring in every so often.
@@laurel1800 Do you mean the ones coated in chocolate? I tried the ones with two cookies and filling and they were "meh", eat them if starving but not buy them again.
two things: 1) you missed a Girl Scout cookie called Thanks-a-lots, they are a circular shortbread cookie, with a chocolate fudge base, and like the lemon ups they have varying messages on the top, but instead they read "thank you" in different languages. (they are my personal favorite) 2) back in high school, my sister and I used to sell cookies from tote bags and out of our lockers. Since there were multiple troops at our school, the school board didn't want to pick a favorite to be allowed to set up their own booth, so instead, the two of us would set up shop by one of the busy hallway corners during the morning as people were arriving to school, and students and teachers would buy boxes for their breakfast and as snacks for later. Then, whatever we'd have left from that morning we'd sell by the end of the school day. Combined between the two of us we did that for 6 cookie seasons straight and is a fun memory of our peers all groggy eyed from the early morning trying to get to us in time to buy their favorite cookies.
Similar story except from the trunk of my mom’s van after school by myself. 😅😂 Amazing how many kids have $ in 6th grade for cookies (then again they were half the cost they are now at that point)!
Girl scout cookies are like a staple of life in the us! Even on my college campus, there are troops who will sell at the campus bus stops and in the parking lots. There are even some who use qr codes to pay through venmo! It’s so different from when I was a scout as a kid lol
Same. I remember as a kid we were expected to go door to door, and it was frowned on to buy a bunch and then sell them at a table outside establishments. Now its the other way around.
yes, it was the same for me. for my troop , we definitely could not order a bunch ahead of time. my mom was able to get her co-workers to preorder and some of my neighbors liked to buy from me and sister but other than that, my mom would place a few extra orders for us to hand out boxes to family. therefore our biggest buyer was actually our parents buying in bulk to get us over the sales quota on the orders. so i did not understand how other troops got thousands of boxes sold or how some girls were able to set up tables outside grocery stores.
The Samoas are *awesome* after throwing them in the freezer for a couple hours. Much as I like the Thin Mints, the texture of the chocolate leads me to believe there's too much lecithin in it. Too... slick. Also, you can't dip into milk without exposed cookie. The chocolate of the Tagalongs acts as a waterproof (or milkproof) coating.
This is cute! One year I volunteered to be the "cookie manager" for my town which meant I got to go to "cookie college" for training and every box sold in my town was in the warehouse I managed first. Man, those girls were strong little business people.
When I was growing up, a girl in my troop's grandmother owned an ice cream shop and would buy enough thin mints to have as a topping for the full year and honestly single-handedly funded our troop for many years 😂
I was in girl scouts all the way through aging out and earned my gold award (the highest award). I can tell you that everyone loves thin mints, young or old, the shortbread are what older people buy, and the smores and adventurfuls are pretty new. They stopped making the smores at one of the bakeries and adventurefuls are new this year. I have not met a single person who doesn't like girl scout cookies and they're good entreprenuerial experience for young girls.
Fifty and more years ago when I sold Girl Scout cookies, the shortbread cookies were called Trefoils. They looked different, and they tasted much better than they do now. They were one of my top favorite flavors then. I've never even heard of Adventurefulls. My favorites now are the Samoas.
Its about place not time. Trefoils are still sold, mostly on the west coast. There are two different girl scout cookie bakers: Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers
My faves ate the thin mints and peanut butter ones. The reason these sell like crazy is because of limited time and availability and people try buying a year supply all at once. Also we can power though a box in a sitting so there is that. I try to limit myself to 2 boxes
In addition to grandparents, parents, and the neighbors and coworkers of parents and grandparents being the main purchasers of these cookies, another reason that the thin mints are so popular is that they freeze really well. So you can just take out a box here and there throughout the entire year while you wait for the next Girl Scout cookie season
My college roommate and best friend was a Girl Scout for seven years. She was counting down the days until Cookie Season this year! She went home for a weekend and came back with a box of Samoas, S'mores (which are her favorites), and Lemon-Ups. I was warned not to touch them, which was fine by me because I only like Tagalongs and Thin Mints 😂
To be fair, the s'mores cookies are kind of iconic, because the Girl Scouts of America are actually credited with inventing the original s'mores, so it's kind of like a reboot of their own idea lol
@@mpoharper True. I made ice cream sandwiches with them for my granddaughter about ten years ago. So good. I used vanilla ice cream but mint chocolate chip would be great too.
Josh being all surprised (in tiny) when he found out the cookies have different messages. And Ollie's genuine happy face when he said he is creative. They are just so wholesome 🥺
I love how Ollie always dresses for the occasion. I love Girl Scout cookie season. They always sit outside of the grocery stores and hijack you when you walk outside. I always buy a ton. Tagalongs are my favorite. If you can keep from eating them all at once they taste amazing in the summer if you keep them in the fridge. I'm salivating.
FYI Adventurefuls and The Smores are newer. Thin Mints and Samaos are where it's at in Girl Scout cookies. The Shortbreads go great with ice cream. Thin mints are my favorite, since I was a child. My girls sold Girl Scout cookies. We racked up the $$ on it. People love them.
Thin mints, samoas, and tagalongs are my favorite in that order. My family would buy those 3 and fight over them every year. There were many tears and many sneaky midnight runs for these things. I don't know what makes them so addictive but I think it's also the nostalgia for so many generations.
why does this reminds me of me and my bro fighting to get most chocolates also in the middle of night without our parents knowing or else it will "disappear" the next morning when we were young 😭🤣
I was a cadet back in 1982 and I can tell you being a Girl Scout was absolutely amazing. Thin Mints are best frozen, Samosas are best cold, Trefoil shortbread cookies are best warmed and served with a fruit jam or I use them as a base for my cheese cakes. Tagalongs were not my favorite but if you really want a true peanut butter cookie you need to try dos-si-dos; hands down one of the best peanut butter cookies of all time.
I freakin LOVE Tagalongs. As someone with an oral fixation who loves biting down on thicker foods, the peanut butter layer was fun to sink my teeth into. My mother, bless her heart, also once got me an entire box FOR MYSELF i was so happy
Samoas and Tagalongs are my family's favorites, but my mom was all about the thin mints. Some flavors change year to year. And there are two cookie regions with differing factories, thus the names that are different but the cookies that are the same.
Shoutout to the Samoan Cookies- literally the only treat since Covid altered my taste/smell that still tastes just as AMAZING as it did pre-Covid. Take my money girls! 🤣😂
The bakeries are regional. That's why lemon cookies are less popular. Some are lemon oreo shaped. Others (my fav) look like Pfefferneuse with very sour lemon powder. Fantastic.
The thin mints don't taste the same. I was a Girl Scout in the 70's and my grandmother was my best customer. She'd fill her freezer with them. Thank you Grandma ❤
Pro Tip: Keebler makes the Girl Scout cookies so they sell the cookies year round at most grocery stores here just under a different name and for way less money. Also, thin mints are BOMB straight from the freezer (and not just for old people)
@@crystalb8612 I worked at a grocery store for years and someone told me that and I was like “yeah okay they’re probably not as good or whatever” but then I did the research and the Girl Scout bakery is literally owned by Keebler and they are the exact same thing 😅
As an American it's so good to see them try some girl scout cookies. Samoas are seriously the best and there have been instances where I've housed an entire box by myself without realizing it. Thin mints are also the other go-to for damn near EVERYONE.
Also I legit don't know anyone who has EVER ordered the shortbread cookies. When you've got Thin Mints and Samoas there's no real point to getting such a boring cookie.
@@kla1641 haha seriously gotta be some of the few who do. I literally never knew anyone in any of the friends I grew up with or even now, who buys them. Guess enough must for them to keep making 'em though
It broke me when you dipped the Tag-a-Longs in milk. Like, why?! It's coated in chocolate and can't absorb anything. That's Oreo and Vanilla Wafers domain. My daughter was so proud when she earned her first cookie badge for selling hundreds of boxes. She went door to door selling but family helped by ordering enough to stock our freezers. She's an adult now but my niece is the new seller in the family. If you know a Scout, you can now order online and have your cookies delivered!
Must be nice to have family help. My "parents" made me too afraid to walk around to houses to try to sell to strangers yet wouldn't walk around with me and barely bought any themselves.
The tag alongs are my favorite!! People here buy tons of boxes and keep them in the freezer, so they have them for a while. If they don't eat them all😂
@@dreamer7770 ROTFLMAO! Going to a foreign country still in the midst of a decades old military action. Chefs are renown for having unreliable careers. And anger issues. Most TH-cam channels fail. Choosing that over a 9 to 5 is inherently risky. 95% of restaurants fail within a year. Did I forget having Ollie as a best friend? Mr. "Here, eat this. Don't ask what it is, though". (Remember the recent "Weiner" video? Just sayin'.) :P Josh takes more, and bigger, risks before tea time, than most people take in a lifetime.
I think you don't really know Josh after watching all his vids. He literally said that he can't imagine his life without Korea in It. He did not marry a chef just by statistics, and by your point, I think you'll pretty much marry someone who has a stable job instead of pure emotion. Agree with your point about TH-cam channels but try watching his earlier videos on the KoreanEnglishman channel, would you consider it a risk when you are very passionate about it? It's like telling Michelangelo to stop making sculptures/paintings. I agree with the statistics again but look on the other side, he did not just open a restaurant for the sake of business. He opened it for people who haven't tried Korean food and be more open about it. The only thing that I would 100% agree with you is with Ollie! :D
@@sc0peq105 I know Josh enough to know that he believes he's a particular way, when he is not. You mistake Josh's stated ideology for my own. I was merely pointing out that his actions and his words are at odds. ;)
My daughter is a 7yr old Girl Scout & is a top seller in our area. The Adventurefuls were new last season (2022) & customers either loved them or hated them. The S’mores are very good if you put them in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. They get gooey & are so good!! I love your reactions 😂❤
The thin mints are extraordinary when they're cold. And the Samoans are just sublime.
The girl who broke the record during girl scout cookie season was selling her cookies outside of a marijuana dispensary.,
😂 Genius! She definitely knows how to pick a niche market.
I feel like that Girl Scout has a bright future.
Yes gotta put thin mints and Samoas in the freezer...so much better
@@ambersmith459 Thin mints yes. Samoas nooooooo! We need the melty goodness of the caramel stretching between each bite. 😋
@@ivechang6720 I disagree I like the snap of the caramel when frozen
i always appreciate the effort that ollie puts into sourcing and wearing outfits that fit with the episode’s theme 😭
Seriously. Ollie is dressed so identically to a Boy Scout that I wouldn't be surprised if he had popcorn to sell around his neighborhood.
Yeaa slightly disappointed that josh wasnt wearing one too
Well, yeah. But it's still hurting my eyes, that he is not wearing the scarf properly... It needs to be rolled up
@@The0neAnd0nlyUnicorn that's exactly what I was thinking 😂
@@The0neAnd0nlyUnicorn and the woggle
Ollie, the majority of Girl Scout cookies are eaten in a closet for two reasons 1) so no one else can have any. 2) because we don’t want anyone to know just how many we ate 😂❤
I’m a multi box annihilator and I won’t apologize for it ! 🤓🔥
I have “accidentally” eaten an entire box of Samoas on more than one occasion.
Agreed lol
Truth.
absolutely!!!
From a former Girl Scout, three things:
1. Thin mints are better frozen
2. Samoas are better cold
3. The lemon cookies used to be DELICIOUS but they keep changing them (the best was when it was a plain cookie with lemon frosting in the shape of whatever the shortbread ones are called)
They totally didn't even have any Oatmeal Peanut Butter Sandwiches.....what????
Gurl I thought I was trippin about the lemon cookie. It over lemony
@@hotboxedHemi300weirdo. Please remove yourself from society.
@@hotboxedHemi300no one likes you.
@MMathis-cu7ewto this day, my dad still thinks about those cookies. Loved them when my sisters and I were in girl scouts in the 90s
As a former Girl Scout, I can tell you that GSC season is a major deal. The money we made by selling cookies funded our yearly camping trips, national convention trips and yearly dues. The Caramel Delights and Samoas are the exact same cookie they just come from a different cookie distributor. Great looking uniform Ollie, I think you are well on your way to earning an "Ambassador Cookie Influencer Badge"....yes, that's a real thing. ☺
is it? wow
It's true, the money we made for our troop selling cookies was such a big deal. We took a summer camping trip every year to different places across the country and there were girls in my troop who couldn't have afforded to do that without us all working hard to sell cookies.
We need to get him a badge….anyone got insider links to Girl Scouts US?!
Yes! It really helped pre-sale season to be an older scout since you could sell to you classmates, but was definitely harder on location….people don’t feel as bad saying no to teenagers over elementary schoolers. and I know it’s gone up to $5(?) a box, but back when I sold them at $4, we only earned 60¢/box. Not many people realize how hard we worked for not much reward. Where I lived, it was cold and rainy all cookie season and we’re not allowed to set up our tables inside the shops (Girl Scout rule). We technically weren’t even supposed to wear jackets over our uniforms, which thankfully our guardians usually let slide. I know they’re expensive, but I always buy one when asked and give it to the girls. I remember feeling so nice getting cookies from a stranger after standing outside for 2 hours.
How many boxes of cookies did you sell as a personal record?
From an American: Samoas are definitely the best, though thin mints are the most popular. And since you guys liked the thin mints, I’ll give you a pro tip. Stick a sleeve of them in the freezer. Then they are at their best, in my opinion. Enjoy! 💜
I'm American too and I also came here to recommend freezing the Thin Mints.
LOL same; I was waiting to see if someone posted about freezing them LOL they are so good that way. My fav though will always be Samoas :)
I put mine in the fridge! They’re so good nice and cold!
THIS 💚
I freeze those, and Samoas yummm
One of the secrets of eating the most favorite type of cookie, the Thin Mint, is to freeze them first. When it's frozen, it snaps which makes it even more delicious. I hope you try it that way (if you have any left over). Enjoy!!
Yes! I also like them in Bryers vanilla ice cream!!
I concur.
Cheers 🥛
Casey, you are correct.
Yes! My boss swears by frozen Thin Mints. Too bad they didn't have this tip before they ate.
My mom always got milk, bit a tiny bit from the top and the bottom of the thin min, then used the cookie like a straw. Looks ridiculous but it's so good!
Could you all do the girl scout cookies with the high schoolers. Their reactions would be priceless.
Oh that's freaking BRILLIANT! Yes sir! I vote for this idea too!
Yes!!!!!
Me too
Me too!
Please.
Oh my god, all my life watching these American tv shows where they were talking about selling girl scout cookies, I was thinking that girl scout cookies are cookies actually made by girl scouts! I was so naive 😅
I can see why you might think the girl scout cookies were made by girl scouts. I think many people think like you. They are actually made by various bakeries under the license from Girl Scouts of the USA, a non profit organization.
I feel like maybe at some point they were before girls scouts became a big organization.
Originally they were; before becoming industrialized !
I thought so too. Who wants to buy a factory cookie with girl scouts on the packet? I thought learning how to bake, package and market cookies was all part of the challenge for the girl scouts? America is just awful. Next you are going to tell me that lemonade stands are owned by Nestle.
@@TomTomLo1 to be fair it acts as a fundraiser for their local Girl Scout’s council respectively. That money is used to then donate to local charities or animal shelters, used to take the girls on wilderness activities and such~ i wouldn’t shame it at all! As someone in music as a kid, we fundraised as well and all that money would go to buying new instruments, going to really nice 2 week vacation trips where we would preform in let’s say a Disney World Parade for example and such, new uniforms. I would imagine it’s the exact same use for them! ☺️ it doesn’t go to some big corporation or anything, it (raised funds) 100% stays with the local Girl Scout group :)
Fun fact: thin mints have passed Oreos as the most sold cookie in America. When I was a Girl Scout I had so many friends and family members literally spend 50 dollars on a case (12 boxes of thin mints) to just keep and store in their freeze so they could enjoy it yearround.
I'm surprised since they suck now. They haven't been good in at least 10 years.
That's why I don't eat them anymore (except Samoas) had to many selling them
Walmart has their knock off brand of thin mints and samoas that are better than the girl scout cookies! There are a few others that Walmart does...like the tagalong...omg...yummy...I'll go with 3 bucks instead of 5 or whatever it is these days 😂
@@duncil85 Aldis has tagalong copys and they are so much better than the girl scout ones. Pretty much the way they use to be.
I think I've reason they were so popular when I was a GS was they only had a few kinds, you had to sell them door to door (guess pedos didn't exist back then. You took the order then delivered them weeks later and that was it for the year. There was so much FOMO and people would buy a bunch and freeze them. Somewhere somehow it morphed into the sell on your website or get your parents to sell them, and also the weird flavors they keep trying.
When my daughters were younger, I was their girl scout leader. All of the girls in the troop sold over 2500 boxes each. I was surprised that the girls could sell that many boxes. Thin mints has been the biggest seller for years. This year a friend who has 2 daughters knew I would buy them. each box is now $5.00 each. Even though they are $5.00 each, people will pay it since it benefits the girls. I ended up spending $125.00 this year. My daughters are 40 yrs old now and they have children also and my grand-daughters now sell them.
Some are $6, in my area
That went from cute to impressive to wholesome in such a short amount of time.
at the top of that pyramid is quintessentially a guy playing cookie clicker
You know what, the girl scouts cookies is actually a pretty savvy and clever business.
They unintentionally _"use"_ young girls/kids to promote their products for them and it's succeed *MASSIVELY*
When I was a girl guide I sold like 20 boxes a year… how much time do they spend selling cookies in America? That would take forever! And where do they go to manage to sell that much each? Do they not run out of people?
I am a Girl Scout troop leader in Mississippi, USA. Our troop has 8-10 year old girls. We just finished our cookie season. The girls have so much fun and they end up learning a lot (money handling, planning, communication skills...) We are so excited to see yall enjoy these cookies!!
Brings back fond memories! I was a Girl Scout for years loved going camping making banana boats🤗
As a Samoan, I can confirm we definitely smell like caramel and coconut, and have a dark chocolate complexion. So yes, it makes sense that we'd make the ultimate cookie. What can I say? The Big Man upstairs did a great job 🤷🏾♂️
🤣🤣Great comment!
Hahaha! 😃 🇼🇸
I love this 😅
Lol this is the best comment 😂
Love this!!
Girl Scout cookies are amazing Frozen. These are “seasonal” because they’re an annual fundraising event. It’s amazing marketing because they’re limited time! The different names are because the cookies are a National treasure and some names are regional. Also, try the shortbread with hot cocoa!
Brownie, lemon and s’mores are new. There is usually some kind of lemon one. They add new ones per year to see what people like.
Smores are a couple of years old
@@LindaC616 ah! You’re right. I think this is just the first year we bought them. Thanks for the correction!
I bought a box of the "lemonades" (round with glaze on the bottom, but no messages) and they didn't last a week.
The bakery changed the following year and I ended up getting "Savannah smiles" lemon slice shaped with powdered sugar...
They didn't survive the ride home. 😅🤤
@@ventrueb maybe they're at dollar stores, too. I try to avoid them--I live alone. Danger, Will Robinson! 😆
Thin mints frozen are THE BEST
As an ex-girl scout, Tagalongs and Thin Mints are my favorites. 🤤
A great place to sell cookies is near a university because college kids go HAM! (Can confirm as a university student - my housemates and I bought 20 boxes of Thin Mints in one go and bought more when we saw another girl selling cookies a week and a half later) 😅
Behold the power of an Adult!
My sophomore year roommate was kind enough to share these with me before finals. There was a troop that would come to our campus in April and I'm sure they made plenty of bank off of us.
I never bought them personally since I was on scholarship and I was broke as hell, considering how expensive they were compared to the stuff you could buy from Walmart or Dollar General.....
Ok that's smart. All that cookie stress eating during midterms and finals when you don't even have time to get real food makes for a good cookie selling market.
Ive never bought more girl scout cookies in my life than when i was in college
this is so accurate cuz im a college sophomore and i saw this girl selling and freaking sped over to her and her mom but when I checked my wallet i didn’t have any cash. tell me why i was stood there having this girl gimme her damn cashapp so I could buy like four boxes of cookies 😭😭😭
Try putting the thin mints into the freezer! It's a whole other experience!❤
THIS🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 it goes thru metamorphosis into the best friggin cookies ever
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same with the lemon cookies
That's what my husband does with his.
Yeah awesome when you've had a tough day. Yummy 😋
Omg, Ollie's outfit is so cute and it really suit him. Beside that the cookies looks so good, I haven't tried a girl scout cookies in my life and now I'm craving cookies.
I only chose to watch this video because I saw Ollie's outfit haha
Girl guide cookies are very big in Canada too. I love them! They sell thousands of boxes a year just in my province alone. It is worth checking them out and trying them if you ever get around to it :)
yesss he looks so adorable🥺🥺
@@lillithveil Of course, they look so good but sadly I'm from the other side of the world but if I get a chance to taste it I will not decline the offer.
@@liv.contgeth oh I see! That’s unfortunate. Maybe one day :) or if someone travels abroad that you know, they could pick you up a box :)
My sister bought 200 boxes to send to her son who was serving in the Army in Iraq. When he got the boxes - he had great fun passing them out to other soldiers.
When I was in and we got Girl Scout cookies they became a very valuable trading commodity ( especially Thin mints)😂
On one of my deployments many many years ago, some organization did the same thing for us. We were ecstatic.
Wow that's a cool and great idea. My sister used to send my nephew stuff to share when he was in Iraq as well. His little sister was in about 3rd grade and they 'adopted' his group (whatever you call it) and would write individual letters to each man at Christmas and made little homemade cards for each one
That’s brilliant.
Josh: "I don't like taking risks."
Also Josh: *Has a video where he skydives, eat nuclear fire noodles, and jumps off a mountain in New Zealand*
Unfortunately for all of us as well, not taking a risk is also a risk in itself.
I've always thought it was a crime that Dos Si Dos aren't more popular. They are my absolute favorite Girl Scout Cookie.
I am with you! Do Si Dos are the best!
I agree
Are you talking about the peanut butter sandwich cookie? If so, I totally agree with you.
Ya, they are one of my favorites as well. They should have tried those.
Do Si Dos are insanely good, and I genuinely don't understand why they're so underrated.
We aren't eating these with our grandparents. We're binging them late at night and then feeling guilty about it. Everyone has their favorites. The Samoas/Caramel Delights are mine, but thin mints are a close second. I've heard that the girls who sell cookies outside of dispensaries do quite well. The cookies are kind of expensive, but they are for a good cause and they are delicious.
Samoas are awesome
Exactly! We are stocking up, hiding them from our families, and then binging them alone with great pleasure. Thank goodness they're only seasonal 🤣
Love frozen samoas
I agree the samosas are my favorite and thin mints are second. Which confuses me because I dispies coconut and don't care for dark chocolate. But I can't get enough of these cookies.
Oooo I never thought of that-selling outside of dispensaries is genius!
Definitely not just for grandparents. Everyone gets excited about Girlscout Cookie season. I bought two boxes just for myself (one Thin Mint and one Tagalong) and ate both boxes in a week.... Worth it.
Freezing them makes a difference
@@lolitajimenez668 Does it taste better?
Wait... You only purchased 2 boxes!?!?!? How do you get away with that? LOL
@@cassidyho939 yes ... especially the mint and tagalongs Oh my god . Everytime i sell it i tell them and when they try they keep coming for more.
I'm curios: how expensive are these cookies? And how many are in a box? Two boxes of something that just seems to be avaible few months a year doesn't sound like too much tough
By the way, your comment about the thin mints is spot on. When you eat thin mints, you are literally plowing through the entire box.
Literally? More like figuratively.
Some of us with exceptional self control eat a row and save the rest for an hour later.
@@havenbastion impossible. How is it done?
@@brycedecker7142 You have to be enlightened first.
It’s true and sad lol
To be clear, the reason the shortbread are so popular is because they’ve been around forever and they’re the cookie of choice for the elderly.
And no, they’re not eaten in front of your grandma, they are almost exclusively eaten, an entire box at a time, by oneself in absolute shame. But they’re sooooooo good!!!!
Side note: Boy Scouts sell popcorn. It’s not nearly as good as the cookies, but it does exist.
YES
Helped my boys sell popcorn for YEARS. It's not bad, until you factor in the price. The smallest item is a box of microwave popcorn for $10, and it goes up from there to ridiculous levels for the flavored ready-to-eat canisters. At $4 a box, Girl Scout Cookies are a much better value.
I love shortbread and I was ready to disagree with you on your comment that it is the choice of the elderly. Then I remembered my age, and it was like, "Oh crap, she's right", To be fair though, I've loved shortbread long before I became a geezer.
My cat has definitely stolen my snack bag of these and I found my ziploc bag of them with a hole in it under the couch. These were also the first girl scout cookies to be sold
It’s too easy to eat a box by oneself-should be illegal
They didn't really try thin mints. You have to put them in the fridge or freezer first, THEN they're able to reach the pinnacle of thin mintiness.
This^
💯
I always save a box in the back of the freezer to have a sleeve on my birthday in June. And the 4th of July.
Frozen thin mints and egg nog are a perfect holiday snack. As long as they stay frozen they are still good at the holidays.
THATS WHAT I SAID
The least favorite ones are also the newest flavors. The most popular ones were the cookie flavors that have been around for decades. They're well known established favorites not just for nostalgia but just being really good.
You forget (and so did they) Do-si-dos, every scout troop was left with a stack of those at the end of cookie season
It makes sense, right? If an older flavor was unsuccessful they wouldn't keep it.
@@rachelk4805 but do-si-do is a flavor that is not allowed to be discontinued
Honestly, I feel like the newer flavors of Poptarts seem pretty weird too compared to the classics. :p
I really wish they had gone from least popular to most when they ate them.
Who else would really like to see Juno review these cookies!? 🙋♀
Literally the first that came to mind when I read the title!
Bet she would like the pida butta! (peanut butter lol)
And the high schoolers!!!
Pretty much everyone needs to review them. Rev Chris .. Juno ... Ollie's dad ... etc
Juno hasn't been on the channel in a while! I wonder if Ollie is trying to keep her life a little more private 🤔
I was a girl's gout 50 plus years ago. The thin mints we're the most popular at that time as well. It's common for people in the US to stock up on thin mints because you can't get them for another year, and put them in the freezer.
you can buy the same thing in the store all year.
Helpful tip: Thin mints are better chilled, for the full(better) experience put them in the freezer or refrigerator for a bit. Also note there is no point in dipping a chocolate covered cookie, the chocolate shell protects the cookie from moisture. Loved the video "peanut butta" made me laugh 😂
Yes but: 1) One dips after the first bite. Or 2) hold the entire cookie beneath the milk until the bubbles stop rising. Don't squeeze too hard or it will squish and fall off. The milk must be constantly filled to the brim and the two delicate fingers holding them get a bit wet. Tum. Great with the old Mystic Mints and Oreos of course.
Girl Scout cookies were originally made by the girls and their moms at the beginning, then they grew so much that now they have specific bakeries licensed for regulation purposes and quality/quantity control. (minus the child labor...😁)
Unpopular opinion, but children need how to learn how to work again. Keeping children and adults in school and entertaining themselves until they’re 22 or older is not making much for an able-bodied workforce capable of real life application and delayed gratification.
And before some rich fool says pay your children to do chores, not everyone has the money for that, and some of us were actually working to help support our parents even in the early 2000s as minors. No one is saying make them literal mine workers, but no one hires under 16 in my area and there are so few of those types of jobs now that they all pay so much they expect adult ability and fun minimum wage summer training jobs are no more for 12+ The whole culture has changed and even 16 year olds that won’t clean a table expect a “livable wage.” No, the minimum is literally the lowest amount you can except for any amount of work no matter how poorly done it is. You don’t get mercy when you’re making enough to support a household, and you don’t get hired at 13 when that’s the pay.
No Do-si-do cookies? They're a peanut butter sandwich cookie and they're delicious! I hope they didn't stop making them. Fond memories of selling these cookies and eating them!
They're my favorites, too!
Me too!
Maybe because of the peanuts?
Definitely an oversight to leave off the Do-Si-Dos. Two flavors are must-haves for me: Thin Mint and Do-Si-Dos which I dunk in my coffee. Nom nom.
@@arithefierysecretary6411 given they had the tagalongs which have more peanut butter in them that is unlikely.
“No wonder they’ve got an obesity problem!” 😂 Ollie’s got a point!
So does England.
So rude of him to say even if he thinks it, should not say it. He can be very rude.
This episode is fantastic. As a Girl Scout my record was 32 boxes, so those California kids are really carrying the burden. Also, next we need Juno’s opinion 😋
32?! Did you miss a number? 😅 I remember getting that off of just the order form my MOM took to work. 😅😅😅
I did 325 boxes one year just going around my neighborhood 😅 omg it took me FOREVER to deliver
Don't those California and Colorado Girl Scouts set up stands in front of the marijuana dispensaries to get their large sales numbers?
Okay thats very true dude i see girls selling cookies litterally everywhere so i have to buy atleaste 3 boxes
I'm in Southern California and the local girl scout group would set a table up in front of a bank.
As an American, I'm required by law to say that Thin Mints are my favorite. But late at night, when no one else is around...
...I'm eating the Samoas.
Naughty kid we got here aren't we
Naughty Brian! ... you must now go to girl scout court and atone for your crimes 😂😂😂
Yes, it is thee late night treat. "I'll just have one 😁 ...row 😫"
Gotta pull them straight out of the freezer though!
I'm part of the 10% of Americans that don't like mint. Still required to vote by law for Thin Mints though. Can't deny they are king for those that do love mint.
One summer I worked as a counselor at a girl scout sleepaway camp. Usually, we were provided with a healthy daily snack for the girls but some days if snack supplies were low or something we had clearance to get snack from the "cookie bunker," this secret stone fortress of girl scout cookies on camp premises. However, we were forbidden to take out Thin Mints. That stuff is chocolate gold.
“The Cookie Bunker” and “Secret Stone Fortress” just killed me!
They are like crack.
That sounds like a camp I went to! Is it Camp River Ranch?
Half of the cookies never made it to the intended lol!
Chocolate gold, LOL
I was hoping they would've had the "Do-si-dos" peanut butter sandwiches. One of my favorites with Samoas and Tagalongs.
Very disappointed they didn't try Do-si-do's. They are one of my favorite. That and think mint. Surprised they were not mentioned. Guys, they are back and I hope you try
Them this year.
Those are the only 3 that I ever get. I don't waste my time on any others lol.
@@kellywalker7127 For real?? I thought they stopped making those, that's awesome
You will need to try freezing the Thin Mints :) Brings it up a notch!
Yes! Thin Mints are best frozen! Also, looks like at least some of those cookies were from the lesser (IMO) of the two GS bakeries. Little Brownie Bakers forever!
100%
I put mine in the fridge but I've never tried them frozen. I'll do that next time!
Totally agree. Crush it and eat it with Vanilla ice cream!
Was just going to say the same thing! And then dip in milk after you bite into them.
I love how Josh says, "proper American cookie territory," and the both proceed to dunk a cookie that is impenetrable by milk without biting it first. 💀
They have that British "all biscuits are hard and must be dunked" training.
Exactly!! That bugged me!!!
I thought the same thing. You only dunk cookies that can absorb the milk. That was a definite faux pas!
The reason we buy them in such volume, is that you can only get them for one season during the year, and the little Girl Scouts are so adorable.
They are some hard sellers. You just cannot resist them.
Yeah, the Boy Scouts have popcorn and it just isn't the same. The young Girl Scouts selling for the first time can be soo earnest. It's adorable.
As a Filipino, i had to laugh when they pronounced tagalongs like "tagalog" xD
EXACTLY!!! 😆😆😆
And this Chinese-American thought that it was pronounced in reverse “TAG-uh-long” until I met my first Filipino in my 20’s (and now life bestie). Also, I thought that famous Filipino language was named after the even more famous GS Cookie (or vice versa).🥴😳
Alright, I'll say it.
Learning how to start a fire in the wilderness is great and all, but earning and learning successful marketing and sales is an objectively more valuable skill to develop at a young age in our modern society. Sorry boy scouts, you catch as many fish as you want, I'll be eating thin mints and Samoas while you get devoured by mosquitos.
You do realize the Boy Scouts sell popcorn in the fall that they get 73% of their sales back. Troops have several different options for spring fundraisers.
Girl Scouts only sees about 22% of their sales.
Don’t forget the trees the Boy Scouts sell at every lot from pre🦃 - 🎅
@@jaymorgart5497 ooh, the boy scouts got popcorn?! Welp, im bout to be broke.
That's actually what the cookie sales program was developed for, to teach young girls the value of money and entrepreneurship.
As a former Heart Scout, I can safely say you're wrong. Boy scouts learn skills ranging from chemistry and business to wilderness survival and basketry. Hell, there's even a merit badge for nuclear science now where one of the tasks is to build an electroscope to detect radiation.
I actually used to be a Girl Scout and I remember there were these two cookies I loved that they got rid of
Savanna Smiles, which were a lemon flavored cookie wedge with this kind of powder sugar
And Thanks a lots, which were a short bread cookie with a chocolate layer on the bottom and it had thanks written on them in different languages
They were great and I’m very sad because they were my favorites but now it Tagalongs
omg SAVANNA SMILES! You unlocked a memory! I LOVED those. I could never remember the name but I remembered eating them. I also used to be a girl scout & my aunt was a troop leader. In our area we didn't actually get the Savanna Smiles, but my aunt was able to get a few boxes from some other troop leader & she let us try them and I remember loving them and being upset we never got to sell them. I thought I just made those cookies up cause I could never find a picture for reference but I remember the taste and the powdered sugar lol
I remember both of those and they were some of my favorites too! I was also a Girl Scout back in the day 😊
OMG YES THEY WERE THE BEST. im so mad they got rid of them. the lemon ups are delicious too but doesnt compare to the savannah smiles😔
I'm also a former Girl Scout and YES Savanna Smiles were the absolute best! I miss them so much and hope they bring them back one day 😩🤞
It was all about the thin mints and those lemon ones for me. I do love a good lemon cookie or pastry.
They missed giving you guys a box of Do-si-dos. They are an oatmeal cookie with a peanut butter cream between the two oatmeal layers. Soooooo good!
Yes...Do-Si-Dos are my personal favorite! You can eat them for breakfast with very little guilt. (Not that I've ever done that.)
I keep a few boxes of Thin Mints in my freezer at all times. They are so good when frozen! Also, a "sleeve" of cookies is a single serving size for me.
Same.
I was so upset when I found out our sitter was sneaking them and putting back empty boxes.
Yes, need to eat them colddddd!
It’s normal for everyone!
Thin mints in the freezer and then eaten in the summer are the bomb.
only IF they can last until summer!
Thin mints blended into a milkshake
They suck now, just like many of them. athin mints were my favorite. Ever since they changed the names of them like tagalongs samaoas do si dos etc. They all are terrible now. Someone somewhere got offended on the behalf of other unoffended people and decided they were offensive names, then i guess the ingridients were offensive too since they are def not made the same anymore. ITs 2023 and they havent been good since maybe 2009
Fun facts: there are indeed two different bakers that are licensed to sell Girl Scout Cookies- ABC and Little Brownie Baker (subsidiary of Keebler). Each baker use the same ingredients, but have their own version of the cookie recipe. Our troop did a side-by-side comparison and can confirm the taste difference. Each council sets their own price per box and can decide which baker to use, but contracts are usually 3 years in length. The classic 5 Girl Scout cookies and 1 gluten-free option must be produced by each baker. The other cookie options can be on the chopping block like the recently departed Thanks-A-Lot and chocolate covered S'mores. LBB Lemonups replaced Savannah Smiles to compete with the more popular Lemonades from ABC. Adventurefuls is the newest cookie... basically a thin mint without the mint flavor and a weird glob of caramel in the center lol...
So that's why Keebler can make and sell cookies that taste quite a bit like Thin Mints! I thought that may be the case!
No one remembers ra ra raisins
@@NefelibataCat ABC has 8 normal, 1 GF, and the new online only cookie. Thin mints, caramel delights, peanut butter patties, peanut butter sandwich, trefoil (previously known as shortbreads-name change this year), lemonades, adventurfules, toast-yays!, and GF caramel chocolate chip. Online only - raspberry rally.
Man I love the adventurefuls.
I love that at the end Ollie is dissapointed and Josh just kind of rewards him with more of the shortbread cookies 😂😂
back in the late 90s ish there was an apple cinnamon cookie and i miss those so much, i dont even remember what they were called but they were the BEST. they also came out with what i think were called lemon smiles before the current lemon ones (they were like lemon tea cookies covered in powdered sugar) and they were so much better than the current lemon cookies.
The lemon ones were GOOD.! Such as shame I think all of them suck now. THey changed them so much in the last 10 years. I refuse to buy them now, besides the fact that the price is ridiculous now.
They were called apple cinnamons! And the lemon ones are called savannah smiles 💛☺
I loved those Savanah Smiles!
@@TraceyJean i forgot that's what those ones were called thanks. I was a Brownie a couple years, started Girl scouts then bailed. We weren't doing anything real fun. The boys were.
Righttttttttttt!!!! It’s like they don’t understand when they have a good thing going because when I was a girl scout (98-01) they had SO many classics on the lineup that even though they can’t compete over the Big 3, could definitely still stand their ground. In the past 10-15 years, the newer cookies they keep rotating and redeveloping have all been pretty weak imo
Ollie making fun of Josh by saying peanut**buttah** after Josh's tagalongs dilemma has me wheezing hahaha
Me too!😂😂😂😂
Same here I was literally on the floor 😂😂
American here - Thin mints frozen is the best ever! Haven't bought them ever since they raised the price a few years ago to a ridiculous $5. (and yes, I'm a grandma LOL) Great reaction vid, guys! Keep up the good work!
I totally agree about the pricing... I was a girl scout in the 70's and I remember being able to sell cases; not a few boxes but actual cases to my regulars. I can't imagine anyone being able (or wanting) to do that now. With 30 boxes a case, that's $150 a case. My best seller bought 3 cases of thin mints, 3 cases of Samoas, 2 cases of tagalongs & one case of shortbread a year. That would be $900 today, I was always blown away that he spent the $150 back then.
@@joannescott3461 It's funny your story about the customer who would spend 150 dollars in 1970s. If you adjusted for inflation from the early 70s, that would be worth about 900 dollars in 2022! 🤑
@@fordimension not quite but it was a lot of money. I promise you I understood how huge an order it was. Luckily he was a business owner who gifted his customers with girl scout cookies.
@@joannescott3461 there're currently 12 boxes per case, not 30.
Also, in case those outside the US are not aware, these cookies are not sold in stores! They are only sold by Girl Scouts, door to door, or on tables in front of stores, or sometimes a parent will bring an order form to the office and you bet everyone fills that thing out. 😅
You can also order them online, and choose which troop benefits from your purchase.
Yeah, but cookie companies have dupes for most.
More like on Facebook and at their parents work.
@@themontecristo1985 True, and they are dirt cheap at Walmart. But I still buy 10 boxes from Girl Scouts when they are selling them.
When I worked at a hospital one of the doctor's had a Girl Scout daughter, so they loaded up a little red wagon with cookies and wheeled that thing around the hospital selling cookies to anyone that wanted some. Absolute genius.
90% of them are eaten shamefully in the dark while standing in front of the freezer while the rest of the house is asleep.
Pro-tip! Chuck the box of Thin Mints into the freezer. They're amazing when they're cold!
You briefly mentioned in the video, but all Girl Scout cookies are made by two different bakeries, and the recipes are actually different! Samoas have more coconut, while Caramel DeLites have more biscuit. The most dramatic difference is in the S'mores - there's the version you got, and then the other bakery basically covered a graham cracker in marshmallow and chocolate instead of putting it between two cookies. Wish you could have had a taste test between those two!
The other smore cookie isn't offered any more.
The 2 different names are because Girl Scout cookies are made in 2 diff factories and the names are regional. Whenever I see the girls out selling I always buy a couple boxes of Thin Mints (husband's favorite) and a couple boxes of Tagalongs (my favorite). The brownie ones look like a new flavor (they often release a new limited flavor every year). The new flavors are often hit or miss. The S'mores was a new flavor they brought into the rotation but I'm not a big fan of that one either. I prefer the spiced cookie flavors they bring in every so often.
Your husband should put some thin mints in the freezer if he hasn’t done that before. I think they’re even better frozen :)
You and your husband are objectively correct. Thin Mints and Tagalongs are the absolute best. :)
I liked the smores from the other bakery but unfortunately they stopped making it :(
@@laurel1800 Do you mean the ones coated in chocolate? I tried the ones with two cookies and filling and they were "meh", eat them if starving but not buy them again.
@@jeg1353 Yeah, to my knowledge they dont make them anymore though. They were pretty good, i'd munch on them often
two things: 1) you missed a Girl Scout cookie called Thanks-a-lots, they are a circular shortbread cookie, with a chocolate fudge base, and like the lemon ups they have varying messages on the top, but instead they read "thank you" in different languages. (they are my personal favorite)
2) back in high school, my sister and I used to sell cookies from tote bags and out of our lockers. Since there were multiple troops at our school, the school board didn't want to pick a favorite to be allowed to set up their own booth, so instead, the two of us would set up shop by one of the busy hallway corners during the morning as people were arriving to school, and students and teachers would buy boxes for their breakfast and as snacks for later. Then, whatever we'd have left from that morning we'd sell by the end of the school day. Combined between the two of us we did that for 6 cookie seasons straight and is a fun memory of our peers all groggy eyed from the early morning trying to get to us in time to buy their favorite cookies.
Didn't try them because they discontinued them that's not a cookie anymore
Similar story except from the trunk of my mom’s van after school by myself. 😅😂 Amazing how many kids have $ in 6th grade for cookies (then again they were half the cost they are now at that point)!
Thanks a lots were my favorite :(
I did the same thing lmao, and they still sell thanks a lots in Texas last I checked idk, may be baker dependent?
Unfortunately they discontinued them in 2020. :( They were my favorite too.
Olive is the true first wife, playing dress up, adventurous, loving and supportive. Thank you for always giving us a laugh 😅
Girl scout cookies are like a staple of life in the us! Even on my college campus, there are troops who will sell at the campus bus stops and in the parking lots. There are even some who use qr codes to pay through venmo! It’s so different from when I was a scout as a kid lol
Same. I remember as a kid we were expected to go door to door, and it was frowned on to buy a bunch and then sell them at a table outside establishments. Now its the other way around.
yes, it was the same for me. for my troop , we definitely could not order a bunch ahead of time. my mom was able to get her co-workers to preorder and some of my neighbors liked to buy from me and sister but other than that, my mom would place a few extra orders for us to hand out boxes to family. therefore our biggest buyer was actually our parents buying in bulk to get us over the sales quota on the orders.
so i did not understand how other troops got thousands of boxes sold or how some girls were able to set up tables outside grocery stores.
The Samoas are *awesome* after throwing them in the freezer for a couple hours.
Much as I like the Thin Mints, the texture of the chocolate leads me to believe there's too much lecithin in it. Too... slick.
Also, you can't dip into milk without exposed cookie. The chocolate of the Tagalongs acts as a waterproof (or milkproof) coating.
I was going to mention the milk thing. Similarly not all donuts are meant to be dunked.
No!!! I broke a tooth on a frozen Samoa! Nope
Thin Mints are everything!!!
Yess, frozen Samoas are just on a different level than all other GS cookies.
This is cute! One year I volunteered to be the "cookie manager" for my town which meant I got to go to "cookie college" for training and every box sold in my town was in the warehouse I managed first. Man, those girls were strong little business people.
Turning children into business people is the American way
I love Josh's laugh and Ollie's facial expressions. 😅
When I was growing up, a girl in my troop's grandmother owned an ice cream shop and would buy enough thin mints to have as a topping for the full year and honestly single-handedly funded our troop for many years 😂
I was in girl scouts all the way through aging out and earned my gold award (the highest award). I can tell you that everyone loves thin mints, young or old, the shortbread are what older people buy, and the smores and adventurfuls are pretty new. They stopped making the smores at one of the bakeries and adventurefuls are new this year. I have not met a single person who doesn't like girl scout cookies and they're good entreprenuerial experience for young girls.
oh NO, they stopped making the Good s'mores???? i am devastated
Fifty and more years ago when I sold Girl Scout cookies, the shortbread cookies were called Trefoils. They looked different, and they tasted much better than they do now. They were one of my top favorite flavors then. I've never even heard of Adventurefulls. My favorites now are the Samoas.
Its about place not time. Trefoils are still sold, mostly on the west coast. There are two different girl scout cookie bakers: Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers
@@hummingbirdspark3998 well, I haven't moved. Lol.
@@SchoeneTante maybe your area changed to ABC bakers
@@hummingbirdspark3998 Perhaps, I don't know. I do know the cookie flavor changed long before the name ever changed.
ABC Bakery is calling them Trefoils again. They were Shortbread for years.
I love how Ollie always looks heavenward! LOL....
We don’t talk about the amount of Girl Scout cookies we eat, it’s very personal 😂
There is a Congressional law that prohibits discussing the amount of girl scout cookies you eat! It is for our own protection!
My faves ate the thin mints and peanut butter ones. The reason these sell like crazy is because of limited time and availability and people try buying a year supply all at once. Also we can power though a box in a sitting so there is that. I try to limit myself to 2 boxes
In addition to grandparents, parents, and the neighbors and coworkers of parents and grandparents being the main purchasers of these cookies, another reason that the thin mints are so popular is that they freeze really well. So you can just take out a box here and there throughout the entire year while you wait for the next Girl Scout cookie season
There's no way frozen thin mints would last until summer in my freezer. 😊
My college roommate and best friend was a Girl Scout for seven years. She was counting down the days until Cookie Season this year! She went home for a weekend and came back with a box of Samoas, S'mores (which are her favorites), and Lemon-Ups. I was warned not to touch them, which was fine by me because I only like Tagalongs and Thin Mints 😂
You guys missed out on my favorite- The Do-si-dos. They are delicious! It’s an oatmeal sandwich cookie with peanut butter in the middle.
My favorite too!
I love those!! I can eat a whole sleeve in one sitting (I’m so ashamed 😭🤣)!!
@@bernieismydog379 same! 🤦🏼♀️
To be fair, the s'mores cookies are kind of iconic, because the Girl Scouts of America are actually credited with inventing the original s'mores, so it's kind of like a reboot of their own idea lol
Thin mints are the best, freezes well, and tastes great straight from the freezer.
Yes and they make great ice cream sandwiches
Yeah, I only put it in the refrigerator but they are definitely better cold
@@mpoharper True. I made ice cream sandwiches with them for my granddaughter about ten years ago. So good. I used vanilla ice cream but mint chocolate chip would be great too.
Thin Mints are my favorite. They're best taken straight from the freezer. Love it.
Josh being all surprised (in tiny) when he found out the cookies have different messages. And Ollie's genuine happy face when he said he is creative.
They are just so wholesome 🥺
Thin Mints are fabulous as a stir-in ingredient in homemade vanilla ice cream.
My god!!!! I am 45 years old and just now realizing what an amazing idea that is!!!
They're delicious in a milkshake.
Yessssss
I love how Ollie always dresses for the occasion. I love Girl Scout cookie season. They always sit outside of the grocery stores and hijack you when you walk outside. I always buy a ton. Tagalongs are my favorite. If you can keep from eating them all at once they taste amazing in the summer if you keep them in the fridge. I'm salivating.
FYI Adventurefuls and The Smores are newer. Thin Mints and Samaos are where it's at in Girl Scout cookies. The Shortbreads go great with ice cream. Thin mints are my favorite, since I was a child. My girls sold Girl Scout cookies. We racked up the $$ on it. People love them.
Initially read Samoas as Samosas and thought, "Wow, the girl scouts are getting into international flavours"... :D
me too ✋
That’s what I thought they said and I was so confused lol
They are cus... Samoa 😂
but can you imagine a samosa flavoured COOKIE?!
Thin mints, samoas, and tagalongs are my favorite in that order. My family would buy those 3 and fight over them every year. There were many tears and many sneaky midnight runs for these things. I don't know what makes them so addictive but I think it's also the nostalgia for so many generations.
My husband came home with eight boxes and they were gone in two days.
Savannah smiles too!
why does this reminds me of me and my bro fighting to get most chocolates also in the middle of night without our parents knowing or else it will "disappear" the next morning when we were young 😭🤣
@@theblueskyandrainbow Never had any siblings, but still relate for getting the good stuff before they're gone trend! 🤣🤣🤣
I was a cadet back in 1982 and I can tell you being a Girl Scout was absolutely amazing. Thin Mints are best frozen, Samosas are best cold, Trefoil shortbread cookies are best warmed and served with a fruit jam or I use them as a base for my cheese cakes. Tagalongs were not my favorite but if you really want a true peanut butter cookie you need to try dos-si-dos; hands down one of the best peanut butter cookies of all time.
Samoas. No "s."
I'd love to see you have the school kids try these.
I freakin LOVE Tagalongs. As someone with an oral fixation who loves biting down on thicker foods, the peanut butter layer was fun to sink my teeth into.
My mother, bless her heart, also once got me an entire box FOR MYSELF i was so happy
If you try Thin Mints again…freeze them first! So good!!!
Samoas and Tagalongs are my family's favorites, but my mom was all about the thin mints. Some flavors change year to year. And there are two cookie regions with differing factories, thus the names that are different but the cookies that are the same.
Thin mints are soooo addicting & are extra good when frozen!
Shoutout to the Samoan Cookies- literally the only treat since Covid altered my taste/smell that still tastes just as AMAZING as it did pre-Covid. Take my money girls! 🤣😂
The bakeries are regional. That's why lemon cookies are less popular. Some are lemon oreo shaped. Others (my fav) look like Pfefferneuse with very sour lemon powder. Fantastic.
The thin mints don't taste the same. I was a Girl Scout in the 70's and my grandmother was my best customer. She'd fill her freezer with them. Thank you Grandma ❤
Pro Tip: Keebler makes the Girl Scout cookies so they sell the cookies year round at most grocery stores here just under a different name and for way less money. Also, thin mints are BOMB straight from the freezer (and not just for old people)
We get our off brand thins mints and samoas at Dollar General.
My mind was blown when I discovered the Keebler grasshopper cookies.
@@crystalb8612 I worked at a grocery store for years and someone told me that and I was like “yeah okay they’re probably not as good or whatever” but then I did the research and the Girl Scout bakery is literally owned by Keebler and they are the exact same thing 😅
@@lwatson403 LOL, me too! They're easily 1/2 the price of Girl Scout cookies, maybe even less than that.
As an American it's so good to see them try some girl scout cookies. Samoas are seriously the best and there have been instances where I've housed an entire box by myself without realizing it. Thin mints are also the other go-to for damn near EVERYONE.
Also I legit don't know anyone who has EVER ordered the shortbread cookies. When you've got Thin Mints and Samoas there's no real point to getting such a boring cookie.
@@scud my mom for my grandma lol
@@scud MEEE LOOLLL I don’t know why but I love the shortbread
@@scud I also hate coconut so I hate Samoa’s and I’m not THAT big of a fan of mint so thin mints are a no go for me
@@kla1641 haha seriously gotta be some of the few who do. I literally never knew anyone in any of the friends I grew up with or even now, who buys them. Guess enough must for them to keep making 'em though
It broke me when you dipped the Tag-a-Longs in milk. Like, why?! It's coated in chocolate and can't absorb anything. That's Oreo and Vanilla Wafers domain. My daughter was so proud when she earned her first cookie badge for selling hundreds of boxes. She went door to door selling but family helped by ordering enough to stock our freezers. She's an adult now but my niece is the new seller in the family. If you know a Scout, you can now order online and have your cookies delivered!
I like to nibble a bit so milk gets inside.
lol and it was the one cookie they did it for too!
Must be nice to have family help. My "parents" made me too afraid to walk around to houses to try to sell to strangers yet wouldn't walk around with me and barely bought any themselves.
It’s Girl Scout cookie time! Get your peanut butter patties!!!
Ollie's blinking eyes are soo 🤣 funny!
Watching Ollie's face turn when he doesn't like something will always be the most amazing thing ever
What? No Do-si-dos? THESE are the best peanut butter cookies from the Girls Scouts. You did get it right, thin mints for the win.
I'm with Olive. My favourite are the shortbread, which were at one time called "Scot Tea" cookies.
The closest off-season cookie I've found is Lorna Doone's. Even the price is similar! Totally scrumptious!!!!!
The tag alongs are my favorite!! People here buy tons of boxes and keep them in the freezer, so they have them for a while. If they don't eat them all😂
so no one is talking about their super sync “i mean” 5:42
Josh:
Goes to Korea
Marries a chef
Starts a TH-cam channel
Starts a restaurant
Also Josh:
"I hate risk."
Take a second to think it through and you'll realize that none of those were risks. Even the restaurant one.
@@dreamer7770 ROTFLMAO!
Going to a foreign country still in the midst of a decades old military action.
Chefs are renown for having unreliable careers. And anger issues.
Most TH-cam channels fail. Choosing that over a 9 to 5 is inherently risky.
95% of restaurants fail within a year.
Did I forget having Ollie as a best friend? Mr. "Here, eat this. Don't ask what it is, though". (Remember the recent "Weiner" video? Just sayin'.)
:P
Josh takes more, and bigger, risks before tea time, than most people take in a lifetime.
I think you don't really know Josh after watching all his vids. He literally said that he can't imagine his life without Korea in It.
He did not marry a chef just by statistics, and by your point, I think you'll pretty much marry someone who has a stable job instead of pure emotion.
Agree with your point about TH-cam channels but try watching his earlier videos on the KoreanEnglishman channel, would you consider it a risk when you are very passionate about it?
It's like telling Michelangelo to stop making sculptures/paintings.
I agree with the statistics again but look on the other side, he did not just open a restaurant for the sake of business. He opened it for people who haven't tried Korean food and be more open about it.
The only thing that I would 100% agree with you is with Ollie! :D
@@sc0peq105 I know Josh enough to know that he believes he's a particular way, when he is not.
You mistake Josh's stated ideology for my own. I was merely pointing out that his actions and his words are at odds. ;)
@@noneyabidness9644 LOVE YOUR REPLY MAN! Faith in the internet people restored! :)
Hope to have a beer with you someday and have a healthy discussion!
My daughter is a 7yr old Girl Scout & is a top seller in our area. The Adventurefuls were new last season (2022) & customers either loved them or hated them. The S’mores are very good if you put them in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. They get gooey & are so good!! I love your reactions 😂❤
When I was young we would always buy 2-3boxes of coconut dreams and save them/savor for a while ❤
I’m so glad they liked lemon ups. They are definitely my fave next to thin mints
I remember the half moon shaped lemon cookies covered with powdered sugar. I loved those! Have not tried these new lemon cookies.