It's Girl Scout Cookie time!
I have learned a few things about Girl Scouts and their cookies that I did not know before:
- Each Girl Scout council develops the procedures and guidelines for its cookie activities, including the dates when you can order or purchase cookies and the price you will pay per box. A council conducts only one cookie sale per year. Most of these activities take place between January and April, but some occur as early as September.
- It is estimated that 200 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies are sold per year.
- 70% of sales goes to the Girl Scouts, 30% goes to the bakers.
- There are different licensed bakeries (and by bakery, I mean large company, including one owned by Keebler) and these baking companies can offer up to 28 varieties.
- The same types of cookies are sold under different names by different bakeries and it is up to the Scout troop to determine the name (thus "Samoas" are the same as "Caramel DeLites").
- Thin Mints are most popular (25%) followed by Samoas (19%). [These are my two favorite kinds.]
- In 2008, a 15-year old from Dearborn, Michigan sold 17,328 boxes of cookies. This was the all time record. And that is a lot of cookies.
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