Girl Scout Cookie Pop-Up Shops Have Arrived!

Girl Scout cookie arrival, 1958

Good news and bad news: Girl Scout Cookies just became more easily available in 4 of the 5 boroughs! The Girl Scout Council of Greater New York tells us that they've opened up Cookie Cupboards which will be in business through May 6th. Forget about the bake sales, they'll be selling all the classics: Trefoils, Samoas, Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Dosidos; as well as the newbies: Ducle de Leche, Lemon Chalet Cremes, and Thank U Berry Much. (Whatever happened to those magical low-cal cookies?)

Boxes are $3.50 a pop, and they'll be accepting cash, money orders and personal checks. Locations and hours can be found after the jump. And here's a little history for you: Did you know the Girl Scouts have been selling cookies for 93 of their 98 years? Except for during World War II, when they sold calendars instead due to shortages of flour, sugar, and butter.

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By Jen Carlson in Food on March 17, 2010 2:14 PM

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chlyn

Love the nonchalance of these girls as they unpack boxes in the shadow of some type of military rocket.

xlizellx

It's not an "off brand", as you pit it. 50% of Girl Scout cookies are made by Little Brownie Bakers and 50% are made by ABC Bakers. Each baker has to make some same cookies -- Thin Mints, Trefoils, Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties, Samoas/Carmel Delights, and Do Si Dos/Peanut Butter Sandwiches ... then the rest of the cookies can be different. They are not any different except that the Tagalongs use Milk Chocolate and the Peanut Butter Patties used dark chocolate.

Also, the GIRLS aren't selling cookies at the cupboards -- this is where troops get their cookies to sell too. As a troop leader, I go, buy cases of cookies, and then my girls sell them in the neighborhood.

Gwinny

OK, an "inferior" brand then. When I was a Girl Scout, they were all sold by just 1 company (I think Little Brownie Bakers). And sorry, but the Caramel Delights are definitely inferior to Samoas.

While I would LOVE to buy directly from Girl Scouts, for several years I have submitted emails to girlscouts.org to find out how to do so, and have never heard back.

r1b2

Thank goodness they call them Samoas again, not Caramel Delights. Man, those are the real deal.

Gwinny

Caramel Delights are the off-brand Samoas that I referenced above. they suck.

Gwinny

aww yeah. as long as it's really Samoas and not the off-brand version which aren't as good (there are apparently two makers of GS cookies and so the names vary depending on who made them)

Gothampc

There are times that are listed before 3:30. Do they pull the girl scouts out of school and force them to sell cookies? I bet Bloomberg gets a cut for looking the other way on the child labor laws.