At this time of year, you cannot escape being offered girl scout cookies to buy.This time-honoured tradition, for some reason practiced only by the female flavour of the Baden-Powell-inspired movement, is the principal way that the girl guides raise money for their packs.
However, a bake sale this is not. In the Land of Opportunity, girl scout cookies are not homemade by parents and then sold to friends, relatives and neighbours. Oh no. That would be far too unsanitary and amateurish. Girl scout cookies are a big business involving professionally produced and packaged cookies. And when I say "big", I mean BIG: an estimated 200 million boxes are sold on street corners, outside shops and to parents' colleagues every year!
The biscuits are made by officially sanctioned suppliers, from whom the Girl Scouts of the USA orders and buys, and the girls pledge themselves to selling a certain amount, although this inevitably means that their parents end up buying what's left over.
Although there are apparently about two dozen types available, the most popular types of biscuits (which don't seem to be available in the shops at all) are Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas and Trefoils. And like all other biscuits, they are virtually irresistible.
Which is why you'll have to excuse me while I go and raid the boxes in my cupboard.
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