Girl Scout cookies

A Girl Scout cookie is one of several varieties of cookie sold on neighborhood tours by Girl Scouts as a fundraiser for their organization. Girl Scouts sell to their own relatives and walk across the neighborhood and town to visit people's houses, taking orders for number of boxes of each cookie type (Thin Mints, Samoa, etc.) desired by each house and the amount the total order of each customer will cost on a paper chart. As an incentive to sell, Scouts are offered prizes (stuffed animals, trinkets, coupons, etc.) of successively higher value for the number of boxes they sell. The accumulation of prizes is cumulative, so that a girl who has won the prize for selling 100 boxes of cookies will still also get the 75-box prize, the 50-box prize, the 25-box prize, the 20-box prize, the 15-box prize and the 10-box prize.

Varieties of Girl Scout Cookie

Thin Mint: The most enduring and universally familiar Girl Scout Cookie of them all. These round, mint-flavored cookies covered with dark chocolate perennially sell the most boxes of any cookie. Thin Mints have never changed their name.

Hoedowns or Peanut Butter Patties: These round cookies with a cookie center are covered with chocolate, having under their swollen chocolate surface an inner layer of peanut butter, much like the marshmallow under the chocolate surface in Mallomars.

Samoas: These cookies are round with a hole in the middle like a doughnut. Samoas are flavored with coconut and caramel. There are thick stripes of chocolate across the cookie, alternated with the no-chocolate zones.

Savannahs: A sandwich cookie. The round, bumpy perforated cookie top and bottom surround what seems to be a maple-flavored layer inside.

Golden Yangles: The only Girl Scout cookie without an element of sugar in them. These yellow, triangular cookies taste more like cheese puffs than traditional cookies. They are a favorite among diabetic and dieting Girl Scout cookie customers.