22 January 2009
Less Guilty Pleasure
Posted by admin under: cookies .
A couple people have noticed a difference with the Thin Mints this year. On the plus side, you’re not ingesting as many calories as you used to. But there’s a reason says Dan McGraw at the Dallas Morning News.
If you seem to be tearing through those Girl Scout Thin Mints a little faster this year, it isn’t you.
Really, it isn’t.
Fewer cookies were packaged into Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Tagalongs boxes this year and the Lemon Chalet Crème cookies were resized to compensate for the rising cost of baking staples. All other flavors remain the same, according to the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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The Girl Scouts faced double-digit percentage jumps for some ingredients from 2007. Martin said that flour increased by more than 30 percent, various cooking oils rose 40 percent to 187 percent and cocoa climbed at least 20 percent.
The rising costs forced the organization to make changes to the quantity, quality or price.
“We didn’t want to pass on the cost to the customer because everyone is suffering right now,” Martin said.
So, you’re not really giving people less for their money. It’s the same given the price increase. Just let people know that we thought it was a better idea to take a couple cookies out of the box than to raise the price a dollar to account for the increase in ingredient expenses (whew and try to say that three times really fast). Sure, the old lady who tells you how boxes were a quarter when she was a Scout will grumble about the change, but she pretty much always buys a box or two, as well.
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2 Comments so far...
admin Says:
22 January 2009 at 7:57 pm.
Yeah. I’m looking for the silver lining that’s as thin as an onion skin. 
