Girl Scout Cookies

[mishalak]

I am a freak of the United States. I don't like girl scout cookies. I like the girl scouts well enough. When I feel flush I make a donation of a ten to whatever group seems most enthusiastic about it. I figure that's better than buying cookies as far as supporting the girl scouts goes. But the fact remains that I do not like the cookies. To me they don't seem any different than the normal store bought cookies, mostly nothing I'd eat. Too much sugar, no real butter, not real chocolate, etc.

I do like some store cookies. Some of the thin ginger snaps that come out with a crumb I just cannot get in my own cookies. And far too expensive little (real) chocolate dipped crunchy things. But for the most part I prefer cookies made at home. Personally I'd be more interested in buying actual culinary attempts by the girls. Maybe give a ten in donation and buy some. Even if they were not MY favorite cookie I like trying different flavors and styles.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Do you mean they are not baked by their sweet little hands. What a swizz!

One of the pleasures of visiting fetes and minor tourist attractions in the UK is sampling the cakes made by the volunteers, who normally don't stint on the ingredients :-)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

There are places to get things like that, but mostly fund raisers for schools or the occasional traditional county fair. I wonder if I could raise as much money for DASFA with a bake sale as I would have to put into making the cookies or pie... Or I could just do what I usually do. Bake a pie and just bring it to the dead dog/alternate as incentive to show up.

dont like girl scout cookies?

[denkyem.livejournal.com]

is that...even possible?

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Here I am. And hi.

I also like oatmeal for breakfast. Nearly every morning. With blueberries long before they became hip because they are among the few berries that come out of freezing well. (Besides cranberries and those need to be sweetened to eat.) Though before I got on blueberries I often threw in some clove and cinnamon.

Other weirdness. Ummm, I like the first Dune better than the Sci-Fi Chanel's version. I actually enjoy reading The Name of the Rose and didn't just say that because it sounds intellectual to read Umberto Eco. Fruits do so go with meats! And I like my beer with less hops than apparently most Americans do.

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[denkyem.livejournal.com]

hmm... the only cool thing i do is think in a different language and mix mayo with ketchup..
I'll have to try the oatmeal with blueberries thing.. i love both but the combo never occured to me...
Fruits with meats??

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have my crockpot make steel cut oatmeal overnight and in season, put blueberries on it. For a while after season, I have frozen blueberries, but my freezer isn't very big, so when they're gone, I go to dried blueberries.

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, and fruits with meats is pretty common in a lot of cultures -- pork with apples, beef with raisins, chicken with oranges, etc.

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[denkyem.livejournal.com]

alright so this blueberries with oatmeal deal rocked but the meat and fruit.... my mind.. my tastebuds..not grasping...

Re: dont like girl scout cookies?

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with the cookies.

As to the rest? Didn't like either version of Dune (of course, as I get older, I like the book less too); enjoy Name of the Rose, as does Cicatrice ("I wanted to poison a monk!"); and concur that fruit and meat can go together nicely.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I like Thin Mints, but you can buy exactly the same thing cheaper as Keebler Grasshoppers.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I need to try again with Albertson's, but I did a taste test of Kroger vs. Keebler and liked the store brand of mint choc cookie better. Less waxy mouthfeel.

(I'm onto trying Albertson's again because they're under new gay friendly management.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

We don't have Kroger here. Or Albertsons.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Albertson's = SuperValu Inc.
That is Acme, Ablertson's, Bigg's, Briston Farms, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hornbacker's, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Save a Lot, Scott's, Shaw's Star Market, Shop 'n Save, Sunflower Market (an inexpensive version of Whole Foods), SuperValu, and Shoppers Food & Pharmacy. That last one is the version near you, I think. Acme is just north of you in Maryland.

The Kroger chain is no long on my favored list because they don't have a gay friendly corporate policy, they only operate in western Virginia and Richmond AFAIK. Safeway is better on the gay things, but not as good as SuperValu which bought out Alberton's and its subsidiaries last year.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I don't shop at Shoppers because they're non-union. We each have our own hot spots, huh?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I don't know which stores are union and which are not in my area. I know from financial statements that 40% of Supervalu's employees are union and that their subsidiary Albertson's is in many areas like S. Cal. I just don't shop at Walmart and much less at King Soopers.

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

There is something very wrong with you.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

I like girl scouts for two reasons: 1), I like the chocolate and coconut Samoas, and 2) it's an excuse to give money for a good cause and get treats back. That said, I'm not as fond of them in general as I used to be.

I've gotten fond of Oatmeal lately - I started eating the instant stuff for breakfast to help with the whole cholesterol/fat thing, and gotten to like it again. (My grandmother used to serve it up a lot, so there's a healthy slice of comfort food in there.) I hadn't thought of having it with blueberries - how do you prepare them?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Matthew, but I wash them and plop them on top.