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Default Girl Scout Cookies - Yuck!


"Julie Bove" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote


>> "Goomba38" > wrote
>>
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> They have changed over the years. The ingredients are not the same as
>>>> they were when I was a kid and the mint ones are not the same. They
>>>> used to be a sandwich cookie. Now they are thin and nasty.

>>
>>> The thin mints have never been different in all my years back to girl
>>> scouting myself, although they have had different cookies at times and
>>> in various places.

>>
>> I have never known thin mints to be any different than they
>> are now, certainly never a sandwich cookie. I bought a box
>> a few weeks ago, it's sitting right here. Can't believe I haven't
>> demolished it yet.

>
> I'm 48 and on the West Coast. I realize that there are different bakers
> for different parts of the country. Perhaps that's all you ever had
> there. I dunno.


I thought you lived at Fort Wadsworth as a kid, as did I. I guess
I'm totally confused because then I see you said they didn't have
thin mints when you were a kid. I think we're just talking about
apples and oranges.

nancy