Chicagoist: Lots of Weed at Girl Scout Camp

sparky

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:00:08 -0600

Anyone remember Golden Yangles? Or was that just a weird special 1980's Girl Scout cracker in Southeastern Wisconsin? We had Golden Yangles (cheesy Girl Scout goodness) and Hoe-downs, which later became peanut butter patties. I think the Girl Scouts should start marketing a special marijuana cookie or something...eat great cookies and get high. They could call them "Munchies" or something like that.

smussy

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:15:27 -0600

julia. i will send you my email address. i NEVER get the girl scout cookie hook up. (insert mega sad face.) i know they're ridiculously expensive for how much you get, but who cares?

JuliaPorter

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:54:31 -0600

There are two different companies that make girl scout cookies- one that calls them Samoas and one that calls them Caramel DeLites. They still go by both names. The company that calls them caramel delites also calls Tagalongs something stupid, and the different companies each produce a different kind of lemon cookie every year. I know this because every single person I work with has a daughter in girl scouts and brings the cookie order form to work. This annoys me because my parents alway refused to do that for me, so I never got the bigger prize that all the other girls did, but also makes me happy because girl scout cookies are some of the most delicious cookies on earth. ANYWAY, every year, I see different forms with different names at the same time.

Mycubehas3sides

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:11:26 -0600

Now, how in the HELL are they going to get their Hemp Clothing Making Merit Badge, huh? Come on, people, legalize it for THE CHILDREN...FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

smussy

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:09:49 -0600

p.s. are people really growing quality weed outside anymore? is that possible?

smussy

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:33 -0600

well, i was a brownie LONG before 1987, i can assure you that. i was a freshman in high school in 1987, and had long since passed my brownie/junior girl scout - cookie selling days. maybe we were a GS cookie test market in WI?

JawsOfJosh

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:48:53 -0600

Marijuana and girl scout uniforms are a great combination. I always make sure the strippers show their ID to prove their age before they start their Naughty Camping routine.

annieF

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:45:06 -0600

the delicious chocolate, graham & coconut cookie was originally called a samoa... then sometime after 1987 (my last year as a GS) they changed the name to caramel delights along with several other cookie name changes. about 5-7 years ago they changed most of the names back to the original, including the samoa. yum.

dj_skilz

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:33:04 -0600

Not just for girl scouts. This happened at a few Boy Scout camps I knew too. Nothing of that scale though. More of a personal use situation, by a few staff members there for the summers.

happygrl

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:34:07 -0600

Why couldn't my parents have sent me to girl scout camp there? I bet it was a lot more fun than the girl scout camp I had to endure.

Shannon

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:29:11 -0600

well, how else are they supposed to identify plants by their leaves? all right, margaret, explain "do-si-dos." or just shovel them in my mouth, please.

Margaret Lyons

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:24:00 -0600

It's like s'mores. You always want some more. Some more --> sommore --> somoah --> samoas. At least that was the story my troop was told.

smussy

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:14:41 -0600

why are they samoas? where i came from they were "caramel delights," which seems very appropriate given their content. but samoas always makes me think of American Samoa, of which i know very little about. do they have delicious little chocolate, caramel, coconut, graham cracker-y cookies there? is there a thin mint country i should know about?