Not thin mints or peanut butter patties: These are the best Girl Scout cookies
Girl Scout Cookies are iconic in the US and are sold by Girl Scouts groups to raise funds to support individual troops.
Girl Scout Cookies are massively popular cookies in the United States with the money generated via sales of the cookies going to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops.
The cookies are widely popular and are commonly sold by going door-to-door, via online platforms, through school or town fundraisers, or at “cookie booths” set up at storefronts.
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During an average selling season (January-April), more than one million girls sell over 200 million packages of cookies and raise over $800 million with the first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts was in 1917. The cookies are produced under license by national bakeries.
Generally twelve different varieties of cookie are available with preferences of the ‘best’ leading to intense debate among fans of the snacks.
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Top 3 Girl Scout cookies
In a recent study, staff at Food & Wine.com offered a breakdown of what they deemed to be the best on offer from the brand.
The highly popular Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties and Thin Mints came in as number three and two respectively on this cookie podium.
But both flavours were narrowly edged out by Samoas with the union of chocolate, coconut, and caramel deemed as irresistible by Food & Wine staffers.
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