Girl Scout cookies suck. This wasn’t always the case; I used to love them. This year I still got excited about them and ordered several million boxes. But then after paying $4 a box (hello, recession?), and not to some cute little girl scout, but to someone with whom I work, I dive in to the holy box of Caramel Delights (nee Samoas) and realize that it just isn’t like I remember them. Well, to be honest, I didn’t really start complaining until the second box, but I think the first was just hype. Then I decide to check the label. BIG MISTAKE. I didn’t even check the nutritional make-up, just the ingredients, and I was sooooo disappointed. They are chock full of trans-fats and corn syrup. Et tu Girl Scouts? Or should I really be sending my payments directly to ConAgra? Well, I must confess that I don’t possess the wherewithal to actually dispose of them in any method other than by mouth, but I am upset with my former tribe, and I think I may just never buy them again.
Maybe they should go back to having them made by actual girl scouts. I realize that this might set up a sweat-shop scenario, but at least there would be a homemade aspect to them. But I would wager that today’s girl scouts wouldn’t stoop to cookie making…we’d have to have to outsource them to China. Maybe my former favorite will have a third naming incarnation…Melamine biscuit anyone?
Have you seen the ads for High Fructose Corn Syrup? The one with the boy and girl on a blanket under the warm summer sun, and she whips out a popsicle and he gives her the death stare and then she is like oh no honey! corn syrup is good for you! and then he immediately is like OK! yum! and eats it!
What is wrong with this world? Even the name High Fructose Corn Syrup sounds gross!