Who can refuse the sweet smile of your neighbor and familiar green boxes of Girl Scout Cookies? Not me. I would buy them by the dozen and put them in my freezer to hold me over until the following year (…month). Thin mints. You can take all the rest, but let me die with a box of Thin Mints in my arms.
Then I grew up, just a little, and started reading the sides of boxes (if you haven’t started this annoying habit, don’t. Ignorance is truly bliss, especially when it comes to your favorite cookies.) So, not surprisingly, my favorite Thin Mints are loaded with hydrogenated oils. Now, I’ll take the sugars and even the colorings, but I just can’t take the hydrogenated oils, especially considering the quantity of Thin Mints I can consume.
But enter my saving grace: Back to Nature’s Fudge Mint Cookies. I swear they ARE Thin Mints, minus the supercrap. I can eat a whole box of these bad boys, just like old times!
I know, in these days, there are so many things to be concerned and passionate about, that cookies can really seem insignificant. But in these day, when there is so much to be concerned about, shouldn’t we have a good cookie?
p.s. It hasn’t escaped me that I no longer support perhaps one of the most cherished American symbols of our time, the Girl Scouts. I will certainly resume my support by buying their cookies again once they take out the crap, and put an expiration date on their boxes.
