UPDATE: After hearing the woeful tale of the Girl Scouts swindled out of a $24,000 sale, locals in Portland showed up over the weekend to buy up 3,000 boxes of the 6,000 that had been set aside for the hoax order. [More]
Girl Scout Troops Let Down When $24K Order Turns Out To Be A Cruel Hoax
By March 18, 2013
cookie monstersRest easy, everyone: The (alleged) South Carolina Girl Scout Cookie Bandit has been apprehended. The accused is a worker at the storage company where the cookies were swiped from, making this an inside job. A round of Thin Mints and milk, please. [WSPA.com]
More Reports Of Meanies Messing With Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Question Humanity
By March 4, 2013
This year we’ve seen a rash of various mean person-on-Girl-Scout-cookie crime, from thievery to destruction by landfill. And while on one hand we get it because they’re delicious so of course bad people want to steal them, on the other it’s like, don’t be so mean to the Girl Scouts. Maybe there’s something in the milk. Today’s entries in “Stop Being So Awful To The Girl Scouts” include wasteful vandals and a skateboarding thief. [More]
Picky Thieves Steal $19K Worth Of Girl Scout Cookies — All In Thin Mints & Shortbread
By February 28, 2013
We’ve all got our favorite type of Girl Scout cookie, and it appears lowdown, dirty thieving scoundrels who would steal from the young scouts are no exception. Someone made off with almost $19,000 worth of cookies from a South Carolina warehouse — all of them either of the Thin Mints or Shortbread variety. [More]
Why Were 13,000 Boxes Of Girl Scout Cookies Sent To A Landfill?
By February 19, 2013
It’s currently that most wonderful time of the year: Girl Scout cookies are available for sale from your friendly local Girl Scouts…well, or your co-worker who has a daughter. Last year, though, a video camera caught workers crushing cases of Girl Scout cookies to render them inedible before dispatching them to the landfill. [More]
Girls Scouts: We’re Totally Hip To The Internet, But Scouts Can’t Collect Cookie Cash Via PayPal
By February 6, 2013
Listen, the Girl Scouts of America are totally down with this whole Internet thing, as well as social media. Which is good, because the organization has stirred up a bit of a social media controversy over a recent clarification that scouts can’t use PayPal to accept payment for their wares, even if it’s for a good cause. That’s a big setback for an 11-year-old who recently started a web site to support the “I Care” program, which she used to accept donations in order to send cookies to soldiers. [More]
I Want My Trans Fats Back: Consumerist Readers Speak Out About Recipe Changes
By August 10, 2012
Last week, we asked you, the members of the Consumerist Hive Mind, what prepared food items you’ve abandoned or fallen out of love with due to a recipe or ingredient change. What we learned from reading the responses: Consumerist readers love their junk food almost as much as Consumerist editors do. [More]
Buying Girl Scout Cookies With Fake Money Is The Lowest Of The Low
By March 14, 2012
So you’re jonesing for some Thin Mints and hey, a Girl Scout comes around willing to sell you some. It doesn’t matter if you need those cookies like Jersey Shore needs canceling, it is very bad form, not to mention illegal, to give a girl in green counterfeit money. [More]
Locate The Nearest Girl Scout Cookies With Your Smartphone
By January 20, 2012
As you sit at your desk, are you wondering if it is possible for you to somehow acquire Girl Scout cookies right now? Maybe you can. The Girl Scouts’ cookie-sales locator website or their Android or iPhone apps can help you to find the nearest boxes of fundraisey goodness available: or at least tell you how long you have to wait. [More]
Girl Scouts Tease America With Cookie-Flavored Lip Balm
By November 8, 2011
Is that package of Thin Mints from last season’s Girl Scout cookie buying palooza looking a little too freezer burned to eat? If you can’t wait for those glorious order forms to come around again, perhaps some Girl Scout cookie-flavored lip balm will tide you over. [More]
Some Girl Scouts Join 20th Century, Begin Taking Credit Cards For Cookies
By March 28, 2011
For decades, if you wanted to chow down on Thin Mints or any other Girl Scout cookies, you needed to have cash on hand or find someone willing to take a check. But now, a handful of troops in Ohio and California are shaking things up at the 100-year-old organization by accepting credit cards. [More]
Make Your Own Thin Mints When The Girl Scouts Aren't Around
By February 1, 2011
Like other delicacies such as the McRib and eggnog, Girl Scout cookies only come around every so often, leaving you to spend your time craving them in abject misery. But anyone with a cookie sheet and the ability to follow directions can easily make the latter for themselves. [More]
Weird-Tasting Girl Scout Cookies Recalled
By February 25, 2010
Some Girl Scout cookies have been recalled because they “contain oils that may be breaking down which can result in an off taste and smell.” Fortunately, only the lemon creme sandwich cookies were affected, and nobody likes those anyway. [More]
Evil, Evil Person Steals $800 From Cookie-Selling Girl Scouts
By March 11, 2009
The news just keeps getting worse for the Girl Scouts. First some jerk started paying for cookies with fake money — now some guy in a ski mask robbed some Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside of a grocery store in Alaska.
