For anyone who knows -- is this a replacement of cookies, or just an off-season fundraiser? A couple of girl scouts just came to the front door this afternoon selling nuts. Is it nationwide, or is this just local? I didn't want to take their time by looking at everything, because it's just not feasible to buy anything in our current financial situation, but I'm intrigued. Does anyone else know anything about this?
--Pop
Posted by Proteus (Member # 794) on :
You didn't buy anything? In North Yorkshire they'd have already put a brick through your window; the little scamps. Or maybe that's just the boy scouts...
Hmm...*looks distracted and disappears out the door*
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I can imagine the smirk on your face as you posted this topic.
Cut the innocent act, Moose! We're on to you!
*prays the Girl Scouts don't start selling cantaloupe*
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
I'm a girl scout. It's not a replacement and it must be nationwide because we sell that stuff here too. Fear not, the cookies do still exist.
Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
Must have something to do with that silly song I posted on the other side of the forum about the gooblers, do you remember Papa Moose?
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
I used to sell the nuts and the cookies when I was a girl scout in Michigan 10-15 years ago. Nuts = fall, cookies = winter. I think.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
The nuts must be regional.(ha ha) Or, they might be optional, because we have never sold them here. I have never been offered nuts. For sale.
OK, thank you so much, Papa Moose, for making it virtually impossible to respond to your question without digging myself in deeper.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
Yup, nuts, fruit, wrapping paper etc. are in the fall fundraising drive and cookies are in the spring. Not all troops participate in the fall drive, but the cookie drive is manditory, I think.
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
we only sell magazines in the fall. and the nuts and stuff since last year. the chocolate covered pretzels are good.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
So the buffalo steaks were a purely regional fundraising phenomenon as well?
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
What about the Girl Scout troops who try to sell you AK-47s Is that local too, cause I bought about fifty.
*Looks nervously around for FBI*
Do the girl scouts allow fifty year old men wiht beards to join? Cause if not, I am majorly screwed.
-Rhaegar
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
My troop only sold the cookies... Of course, my mother was the scout leader, and couldn't get any assistant leader, so she felt that the cookes were enough, thank you very much.
And all girl scouts/scout leaders should watch Troop Beverly Hills. It should be mandatory for the leaders to watch it before cookie sales.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Girls Scouts are littered with nuts. Really. Have you ever met a girl scout leader? No one is nuttier than one of those people, and they always scared the bajeebes out of me.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
No one has asked the truly important question!
Girl Scout cookies are kosher. Are their nuts?
Posted by :Locke (Member # 2255) on :
Are girl scouts kosher?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Addams family asked the big question.
Wedensday: Are your Girl Scout Cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
From what part of the Girl Scout do they make the...no. I can't go there.
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
heh
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Are girl scouts kosher?
Yes.
*drools*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Nuts/Candy/Magazines are an off-season fund-raiser. Cookie sale starts around thanksgiving this year. And yes, the nuts are kosher (as far as I know).
I know 'cuz I am a nut...I mean Girl Scout.
Does anyone want to buy any? *bats eyelashes* My GS troop is saving up for our senior trip. We're going to London next summer. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Eruve, do the nuts have an O-U on them, like the cookies do?
Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
quote:Are girl scouts kosher?
I suppose it depends. Do they have split hooves? Do they chew cud? I suppose the answer could vary from girl scout to girl scout.
Do they have nuts? Well, I suppose that depends on how you bake them.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
If you cooked the product of one girl scout with the girl scout herself, that wouldn't be kosher, would it?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Err, Erik, if there are lactating Girl Scouts, cooking them won't be necessary to make things not "kosher." Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Thanks for clearing that up!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Rivka: If you mean by "O-U" that you order now, pay later, then yes.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Eruve
No, I meant a U in a circle . . . one of several symbols that indicates that the product is kosher.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Oh. *looks sheepish* Yes, some are kosher, some aren't.
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
[Dear, Hatrackers, please pretend that this incredibly witty reply came as the first response to Papa Moose's post, as that will thoroughly increase your enjoyment of my zany, off-the-cuff humor.]
Yes. Big, salty ones.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Aww, don't be sheepish, Eruve. I think it's a great line. I plan to repeat it! Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*blushes* I know I'm slow...you don't have to rub it in. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
You know, I do think it takes some cojones to sell door-to-door as a little girl.
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Must have something to do with that silly song I posted on the other side of the forum about the gooblers, do you remember Papa Moose?
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