| Author | Message | ||
     Thumper74 |
It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head. To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes. o the organization, the cost of flour rose by 30 percent, assorted cooking oils by 40 percent, and cocoa by at least 20 percent. The company felt this was the best method of dealing with increasing raw material prices. Alternatively, Girl Scouts could have used cheaper ingredients, or raised cookie prices from their current price of $3.50 per box. This doesn't come as a surprise to me, since last year producers began rolling out shrunken products in reaction to the price of food on the rise. I'm secretly a bit excited — for once, the downsized box may be enough for me to stop short of a stomachache. The Good news? My favorites, the Somoa, is unaffected. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
What do you care, they aren't on the plan anyway. | ||
| Hootowl |
one more unintended consequence of the biofuels market. | ||
| Thumper74 |
Well, I ordered some a few weeks ago before we pulled the trigger on the plan. I'll have to donate them to my coworkers or something. | ||
| Crusty |
or something.  | ||
| Froggy |
Uhh, you mean "one more unintended consequence of the oil market". Remember when gas almost hit $5 a gallon a few months ago? Thats what caused the price jacking, not bio fuels. If anything, biofuels helped reduce it as it provided some alternative to oil based fuels. Anyway, why do they keep bothering with the lemon cookie? Nobody orders them, and they keep changing the name every year so they can say its a new addition. | ||
| Swordsman |
Thin Mints are my favorite, but strangely enough, I like the Somoa Edy's Girl Scouts icecream the best. Cereal boxes have gotten smaller as well, though you won't notice it on the shelves.... they shrunk them on the Z axis. ~SM | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
one more unintended consequence of the biofuels marketBiofuel is corn, correct? wheat also went way way up. If we used more bio-fuell couldn't we just put more of the outa work farmers to work and a few years down the road be growing more? Just a thought. Ill prolly still be driving my gas guzzler anyways. | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
Oh I almost forgot, Somoas are the best! | ||
| Froggy |
Biofuels can be made from any carbon based lifeform, including products that can't be sold like waste beer, corn husks, your neighbors dog that barks at 4am, etc.  | ||
| Bbbob |
"It's people" | ||
| Kyrocket |
+1 on the Somoas or aka Carmel Delights. My daughter is selling them right now. Our school taxes are maxed out and it seems everytime we turn around they want us to sell something, I don't make her but I don't mind the cookies as they sell themselves. We actually have people calling us and stopping us in church asking her if she is selling them. |
