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Anon sells girl scout cookies (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They're all the same.

"Girl Scout Cookies" is a brand of its own. They're mostly pretty good too. I'm a samoa guy, when I can be talked into spending way too much on cookies where the actual local scouts don't really see enough of the funding from the sales.

I'm not a fan of the organization. The cookies though, they're legit.

[–] OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Small correction, only discovered when I moved across the country: there are two factories producing Girl Scout Cookies -- and the recipes have overlap, but each production company has a few unique ones. So sometimes I have to order from my niece rather than my neighbor.

Some of them are the same everywhere, though.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

That's why in some areas Samoas are called Caramel Delights. IIRC, they use extremely slightly different recipes, and there is some sort of licensing agreement between the two.

All I know is that as a Cub/Boy Scout, I loathed Girl Scout Cookie season, because it overlapped with Boy Scout Popcorn season. It took me years to figure out that the way to sell the stuff was to completely ignore the product, and sell the idea of "keeping young boys from inventing their own entertainment."

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

I did not know that! Thanks for the info :)

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So it’s just a MLM scheme?

[–] Matthew@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah but the real ingenuity is in the child labor

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Always has been.

Teaches girls to be entrepreneurs so they can grow up and sell Tupperware or Pampered Chef or whatever bullshit is getting hocked about these days.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup, though not really multi in the true sense, but that's essentialy how it works. It's pretty shitty

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Single level marketing?

[–] Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the answer. The need for something on such a huge scale just for girls scouts seems crazy to me! But your country is on a huge scale I suppose.