It seems like just a few weeks ago , Girl Scouts were knock on our door convey orders for the Thin Mints and Samoas we ’ve been craving since we finished our last box some time around April . ( Oh , who are we kidding ? We finished them the day they go far in mid - March . ) Now that the treats are finally in our raging little hands , here are some fun facts to manducate on with our milk and biscuit .
1. GIRL SCOUTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEE COOKIE-SELLING AS A BUSINESS.
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Going door to door selling may be fun , but it ’s also a serious business sector that help instruct the junior CEOs how to set end , make business decision , manage armory , and hit confidence to deal with a broad compass of people . It should arrive as no surprisal that Girl Scouts of the USAclaimsthat 52 pct of the area ’s businesswomen were once Girl Scouts .
2. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT FUND-RAISING. IT’S ALSO ABOUT REWARDS.
Scouts get more than just bragging rights when they sell a good deal of boxes . They also get rewards , which motley from region to region . The bonus can array from a root word patch for their uniform to an iPad . They can also take in virtual money to yield for camps , travel , and other programs .
3. THEY SELL KOSHER, GLUTEN-FREE, AND VEGAN OPTIONS.
All Girl Scout cookies are kosher and have been for years . Thin Mints , Peanut Butter Patties , Lemonades , and Thanks - A - Lot cookie are vegan . Gluten - barren Trios and Toffee - Tasticsare now in their 2nd year .
4. THERE ARE SOME LIMITS ON WHERE GIRLS CAN SELL.
Although it may sometimes seem that there are Girl Scouts hawking cookies in front of every business organisation you jaw , regional council determine what locations are o.k. and which are n’t . Most agree that liquor depot and marijuana shop are off - bound , but that has n’t kept some from defying the rule . In 2014 , one picket set up store in front of a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco and sold117 boxes in two hours(shedid it again in 2015and sold 208 boxes ) .
5. THE GIRLS STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN.
They ca n’t unionize , but that does n’t imply they wo n’t resist . When scout Lily DeRosia saw a news account enjoin that worker at a Kellogg ’s cookie industrial plant that make the cookie were plain about forced overtime , she write the company to match the pattern and cheer her scout troop to send the company a petition . Other Scouts have protested the use of unsustainably harvested palm fossil oil in the cookies .
6. THE COOKIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Thanks to Digital Cookie 2.0 , Thomas Kyd can now deal to congeneric all over the country through a personalised WWW pageboy . The service even tolerate vender to record their own promotional video . transport fee substantially increase the cost , but is n’t that a small price to devote for keeping your granddaughter felicitous ?
7. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BUY COOKIES, YOU CAN STILL BUY COOKIES.
This is n’t the movieGlengarry Glen Rosswhere the girls have to " always be closing , " but they are advance to demand people who do n’t want to buy cookies if they ’d like to make a donation . One popular option is Operation Cookie Drop . The platform not only sends cookies to troops overseas , it also aid spotter meet their box sales goal if they ’re a few boxes under their goal at the conclusion of the sales event .
8. NOT ALL FLAVORS ARE WINNERS.
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change can be the spicery of life , but not necessarily in Girl Scout Cookies . Thin Mints , Samoas , and other flavors have stood the test of time , butother flavors have n’t remained as durable . Thank U Berry Munch , Cinna - Spins , or Mango Cremes , anyone ?
