To supplement my cookie habit, I have to resort to roaming the dollar stores in search of those off-brand bagged and bulk varietals. No they are not nearly as quality as the Girl Scout offerings but when any cookie is dunked in milk or coffee it magically ‘mushifies’ and takes on the delightful flavoring of the surrounding liquid. Tempting as it is, I have never dunked any of the Scouts – they are just too fragile and their parents would probably complain.
My one problem with cheapo cookies may appear superficial but it still bothers me. For some reason when making a sandwich cookie, often one side of the cookie will be crookedly mounted on the cream center. Is it too much to ask to have a perfectly apolitical cookie that is not too left or too right of center? It also frustrates me when the decorative embossed cookie’s topside is turned upside down on the cream.
How hard can it be to get a nice n’ orderly cookie that lines up on an axis right side up - after all, a bunch of green girly scouts seem to do it flawlessly every time? Oh I know, that’s why we all give up 350 pretty pennies to the Scout-ettes to treat our taste buds to a box of their top-drawer fat pills. Just like the U.S. government, I guess the Chinese will have to keep financing my good fortune and bad habits. I’ll have to learn to tolerate the occasional crooked cookie after dinner – it’ll be OK as long as it has a piece of paper with good news inside it!
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The "Scouts" in our neighborhood don't sell
ReplyDeletecookies. Ours just scout for reasons to raise our
property taxes. We never used to even have any KIDS at all in our neighborhood. But one woman brings her grandson over to sell Popcorn for $13.
Worse than the Movies!
Hey, why not make your OWN cookies? But don't get caught on anybody's porch in a little green dress!
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You are one cracked cookie. Next thing, you'll be seeing the vision of some saint or prophet in your cookies. I don't mind an off centered cookie as long as it fresh and doesn't have a bite out of it.
ReplyDeletethanks for stopping by A Few Clowns Short
Ain't that the way the cookie crumbles? It's a sweet deal as long as they stay in your coffee or milk but don't get me started on the government or the Chinese for that matter!
ReplyDeleteYou're bitchin' about crooked cookies? Been to a fast food joint lately? They can never manage to throw a burger together so that it isn't lopsided! Drives me nutso.
ReplyDeleteGirl Scout Cookies -- thanks for the reminder! At my previous job, one of my colleagues' daughters was a scout and I would buy at least $70 worth from her. And she wasn't the only one I bought from either!! (No worries, I gave most of them away)
ReplyDeleteI'll be on the look-out at Home Depot or Lowes for the little girlies in green. :)
Great post, as usual!!