Girl Scout cookies are here, ready to sweeten our lives while we endure winter weather. From January to April, droves of uniformed girls sell ever-popular Thin Mints and coconut-caramel Samoas all over the country.
But as Southern Living reports, if Toast-Yays! and S’mores are your favorites, you’d better stock up now, because this is the last year the Girl Scouts will sell those two popular varieties.
As you’d expect, S’mores are a graham sandwich cookie with a chocolate and marshmallow filling. The Toast-Yay! is a bread-shaped, French-toast-flavored cookie dipped in icing. These retiring flavors aren’t even available in all locations, so you may have to do some hunting to find your favorite.
But even if you can’t find them, you’ll be too busy tearing open a sleeve of Tagalongs (Peanut Butter Patties) or shortbread Trefoils to care. More than one million girls manage to sell 200 million boxes of cookies each year—and it’s no wonder why. Most of us can crush a box of incredibly delicious Thin Mints in no time at all. The Girl Scouts are everywhere and have a very helpful “Cookie Finder” tool for those who are anxious to find them. After all, the Girl Scout motto is “Be prepared.”
Plus, by stopping to buy some of those boxes from the fresh-faced Girl Scouts outside our local grocery stores, we’re all doing our part to financially support those Girl Scout camping trips and community service projects. So make space in your freezer for a few more boxes—it’s now time to stock up.
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