Posted on 01/11/2009 10:42:35 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
Beginning Jan. 16, Girl Scouts of the Moccasin Bend Council will be practicing Spanish as they ask customers to purchase the Dulce de Leche (DOOL-seh deh LEH-chay) cookies which means "candy of milk."
Inspired by the classic confections of Latin America, the all-new Dulce de Leche cookies are rich with milk caramel chips and stripes and have a hint of cinnamon.
This latest Girl Scout cookie adds an international flair to this year's Girl Scout Cookie Season. This new cookie also gives Girl Scouts a unique opportunity to celebrate Latin-American cultures and learn a little "Cookie Spanish" at the same time.
"The Cookie Program allows girls to put into practice life skills they learn in Girl Scouting," says Girl Scout CEO Linda J. Rath.
"It helps them use math skills to manage money. Our cookie program also teaches them the importance of developing business and entrepreneurial skills they need to succeed in tomorrow's workforce."
From Jan. 16 through March 13, Girl Scouts will be out in full force taking orders for this annual sale.
Cookies are $3.50 per box. Delivery on pre-orders will take place the end of February and first of March.
Girl Scouts will also be out in their community selling cookies in front of area businesses the weekends of Feb. 27, March 6 and March 13.
Girl Scouts will also be asking customers to purchase additional boxes of cookies to support the military in "Operation Taste of Home."
Customers will also be invited to write a letter of support and encouragement to be included with the cookies that the girls will ship.
If there isn't a Girl Scout in your neighborhood, you may purchase cookies at the Girl Scout Service Center, 1936 Dayton Blvd. in Red Bank, or contact the Council to request a Girl Scout troop take your order at 877-2688, 1-800-446-2472 or by e-mail: cookies@mbgsc.org.
Worse yet, troops generally only get .50 cents profit per box and MUST sell cookies if they want to do ANY other fundraisers for which they might actually earn enough to fund any decent activities.
After a couple of years of busting our tails on sales and booths we saw the light. We would sell the barest minimum and then do other fundraisers where we could actually earn money and then take our girls on some very nice trips, which they voted on and planned themselves. They were involved in the whole process and learned a lot.
No Dulce de Leche for me, thank you.
How long before Bimbo becomes the Girl Scout cookie supplier?
Back when the cookies were still $2 my neighbor was a GS leader for her daughter’s troop...
She told me that when they sold a box they got 25 cents...
She preferred the money...
I had a great racket going for weekend doughnut sales when I was a Boy Scout. I’d pick up the donuts Saturday morning and do nothing with them until Sunday. My house was across the street from a church and I’d walk the traffic line selling them from car to car at the stoplight when services ended. 15 minutes was all it took while my buddies were spending the whole day on Saturday to hawk theirs.
Do girl scout cookies have high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oils in them?
Now THAT is entrepreneurial !
They're really, really tasty!!!!!
And on the seventh day God created Thin Mints.....GREATEST COOKIE EVER.
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