Everyone knows the five seasons: summer, autumn, winter, spring, and Girl Scout Cookie season.Who doesn’t love the chocolaty mint crunch of Thin Mints? Or the strange concoction of coconut, caramel, and chocolate in Caramel deLites? Or how about Do-Si-Does? Or Tagalongs? Mmm … we’re getting hungry just thinking about it.
Girl Scout Cookies have been around since 1917 when scouts made their own cookies and sold them door-to-door as fundraisers.
In the mid-1930’s, the national Girl Scout organization began licensing commercial bakers to mass bake the cookies for the girls to sell. Over the next decade, almost 30 commercial bakers were licensed to make “Girl Scout Cookies.”
What a sad existence it must have been in the 1940s when Girl Scouts stopped selling cookies due to rationing and sold calendars instead! But all was well again when cookie baking resumed after World War II ended.
Finally, in 1978, the Girl Scouts first featured the cookies we now know and love. The national organization allowed only a few bakers to create the cookies and gave them guidelines for recipes, packaging and box decorations. Since then, not much has changed, although a few new cookies have been introduced over the years.
This year, a new cookie was introduced into the Girl Scout Cookie family. What is it called?
Take a guess in the comments section, and we'll post the correct answer next week.
Anwer to last week's question: 16 nations competed in the first Winter Olympic Games, held in Chamonix, France in 1924.
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