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.
"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." __________________________________
Cant all that be achieved in English ???
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Well, um, Candy of Milk sounds stupid and is not a flavor I’d buy.
Dulce de leche, on the other hand, is something Texans are familiar with and would probably like.
Marketing, marketing, marketing. I advise a better reason to get one’s unmentionables in a bunch.
Sounds delicious. I love Dulce de Leche. I’ll have to get two or three boxes.
“Cant all that be achieved in English ???”
Is there something wrong wih learning another language? The U.S. is generally way, way, way behind other civilized countries, where kids start learning English at a very young age.
I love Dulce de Leche, and might even buy a box of those cookies to try them out.
I don't object to the Girl Scouts or their cookies;but to pretend the kids really do the selling is contrary to my experience.Cookies,garden seeds,magazines,candy bars,greeting cards, are all peddled from brochures by doting parents,and we fellow workers buy the stuff to get along.
I really wish we didn't have so much regulation that prohibits young people from actually earning money .
Psssst. Over here!
as long as they continue to sell Thin MInts I don’t care what they call them!
As long as they don’t get rid of “Thin Mints” and “Samoas” to make room for this other stuff.
Amen. I think setting up a cookie stand outside of a grocery store and asking everyone if they want to buy cookies teaches a lot about business.
I just wish that approach work so well on me!!!!!!
BTW folks, if you don’t want the cookies yourself, most girl scout troops will allow you buy cookies for troops overseas. I also sometimes a box for the little girls while they’re sitting there.
Living 6 miles from the Mexican border I get the opportunity to buy cookies from Mexico and I can say that a lot of them are addictive and better then the ones we get here. I don’t care if there is crack in them, they are good.
Put me down for a couple too. We love Edy’s dulce de leche ice cream.
I would never deny that multiculturalism has been fun for the tastebuds. The question is whether it benefits anything else.
Talk about hyperinflation.
I remember when they were $2 a box. Weren't they only $3 last year?
And let's not forget that the Girl Scouts have turned into a leftist organization.
Why does anyone pretend that these girls sell the cookies? You just can’t let your kids go door to door anymore. Sad to say, it’s dangerous to roam some neighborhoods even accompanied by an adult.
I love Thin Mints and Dos-e-dos but I sign my name to an order form hanging up at work that a parent puts there.
The reason that kids in other countries are learning English is that English is becoming (or has become) the new Lingua Franca :=) for international commerce.
Many years ago, the predominant language used in chemistry was German. To be able to read and understand research papers, it was just a given that any college chemistry student would need to be proficient in German. While I don't know it for certain, I'd be willing to bet that today chemistry research papers are more typically written in English rather than German.
They were the same price last year I think.
Yeah, I’ll have some of them Horace cookies...you know, the “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” ones.
There IS crack in them.
I know. I used to smuggle Mexican cookies.
Amen. I think setting up a cookie stand outside of a grocery store and asking everyone if they want to buy cookies doesn’t teach a lot about business.
I just wish that approach work so well on me!!!!!!
BTW folks, if you don’t want the cookies yourself, most girl scout troops will allow you buy cookies for troops overseas. I also sometimes a box for the little girls while they’re sitting there.
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