Please Sir. Can I Have Samoa?

So awesome!!! I also love the Samoas... Thin Mints do indeed ROCK once frozen! Cookies... Who knew they would make an entertaining blog post?

Samoas are my favorite too!! I didn't know they changed the name to Caramel deLites...horrible. Maybe Samoa is offensive to someone...isn't that the name of an Indian tribe? I don't know. Anyways, I'm jealous. And you were right to keep them all for yourself.

Ha ha, hilarious.

You've made me so hungry now.

Pat, how can you make such strong remarks about a cookie you know so little about? Haven't you ever heard that "don't fly off the handle when you're full of baloney" story? I will say this, though: you are correct in your assertion that Samoas are the best Girl Scout Cookie--better than Caramel DeLites to be certain (let's get to that, shall we?).

What you've pictured mid-post is not a Samoa at all, it is in fact a Caramel DeLite. If you had a box full of the hexagonal cookie pictured (rather than a similar yet circular cookie), you ate a box of Caramel DeLites and NOT Samoas.

Girl Scout cookies are made by two different Bakers nationwide (ABC and Little Brownie). You appear to be in a region that (unfortunately) supports ABC Bakers, who propogate the thinner, hexagonal, milk chocolated, less caramelated "Caramel DeLite" (the name is ironic given the smaller amount of caramel, GET IT!?). Samoas, made by Little Brownie Bakers, are the thicker of the two cookies, circular, made with dark chocolate, and contain more caramel. I'm willing to bet the Caramel DeLite tastes more buttery on account of the smaller caramel content (which probably gives the actual cookie a more prominent position, taste-wise, for better or worse--worse, if you ask me).

As for your other inquiries, if you read the descriptions of the cookies (as I just did) you'd have answered them yourself. I'm surprised that in the same post you made a literary reference (for what it's worth) like "Little Lord Fauntlerdouche" and exhibited an apparent inability to get past looking at pictures and READ...anyway, the difference between "Shortbread"s (called Trefoils by the less Nazistic Little Brownie Bakers) and "Thanks-A-Lot"s is that "Shortbread"s contain no fudge whereas Thanks-A-Lots implement a layer of it at some point in the creation process (they also have "Thank You" written on them in various foreign languages). The "Peanut Butter Patties" - "Tagalongs" discrepancy is accounted for in the same way as the Samoa-Caramel DeLite one (I believe that Tagalongs and Peanut Butter Patties use the same recipe, however).

I think someone would order "Shortbread" because they're delicious, particularly when eaten about ten at a time. They aren't tasteless crumpets for God's sake! I didn't order any Girl Scout cookies this year, though, partly cuz I didn't have the opportunity.

I have never had these "Cartwheels" but they look kinda awesome too! Not at the expense of true-blue, dark chocolate, super-caramelated Samoas, though. I hate to have to be the one to tell you, but you're in Commie country now, Walsh. ABC Bakers-style....hexagonal-Samoas-style. To learn more about the cookies you may be missing out on, visit www.littlebrowniebakers.com or more specifically http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/cookies/cookies.html.

That disgusted-looking girl looks at least as much like a disgusted-looking boy as she (he?) does a disgusted-looking girl, which raises a whole other set of questions.

To pre-emptively answer any questions and pre-emptively address any ridicule that will doubtlessly stem from my seemingly endless knowledge of Girl Scout Cookies, yes, I'm a 100% gaywad.

One time I ate a coupla sleeves of Oreos in one sitting, good grief thinking about the caloric content of that with my current metabolism makes me a little sick!

The thanks a lot (chocolate covered on the botom) must be a new form of the old "all abouts" with the chocolate covered bottoms, but the the all abouts were bigger and square shaped with different messages on them. The cartwheels I am guessing are the new cookie this year, every year they have a new cookie, last year it was cafe cookies. I used to be a girl scout and now my younger sisters are girl scouts so thats why I have this useless knowledge ;D. As for why they changed they names, I have no idea, that was stupid, but hey as long as the cookies are still friggin delicious.

Nicole,

I knew. I knew.

Andrea,

I don't think you're far off with the Native American assumption. I'm sure someone complained. Hey, we eat Eskimo Pies, and those icy bastards don't complain.

Danny,

Get yourself some Samoas, player!

Rob,

You really just blew my mind with that. I didn't read the Girl Scout site because...I had a Girl Scout site up at work. I felt like the FBI was going to burst in at any second. In addition, I don't feel those other cookies are worthy of my time. But I took another look at the box (still sitting in my desk trash can), and indeed they are labeled Samoas! What I ate were Samoas. Thank God. Apparently this website was put up my someone who lives in Bland Country, where they go with the Cheapo names.

Thank you Rob, and how could I have been so naive?

Dianna,

It's a good thing our founding fathers didn't take the stand of "Hey, as long as the cookies are still delicious..." America wouldn't be the place it is today.

Isn't that the best surprise? I always forget when I order Girl Scout cookies. Samoas are so sinfully delicious I'm surprised Girl Scouts are allowed to sell them. Did you know there is also a Somoas ice cream sold in some grocery stores during cookie time? http://www.edys.com/brand/Grand/flavor.asp?b=134&f=1644 Sure, it sounds fundamentally wrong to tamper with a Samoa like that. Why whore out the perfect cookie? Samoa morsels enveloped in ice cream, disgustingly rich and sweet. But it actually elevates Samoas to another level of foodgasm.

As much as I love the 'Carmel DeLites', it's the new model 'Lemonades' that I'm addicted to these days. I've eaten four boxes of them in the last couple of weeks, and I can't stop. Hopefully, my boss will end the gluttony by selling out of her kid's cookie stock, but until then, I am her biggest junki...er...customer. My only complaint is that I wish they were a bit smaller so they can fit in my mouth more easily, but who am I to complain about cookie perfection?

Patrick, this is my most favorite headline, it make me laugh outloud in a silent office! Have you had the Samoas ice cream yet? It's by Edys (Bryers in your part of the country) and it rules.

Colleen

Beautiful Blog-City just erased my masterpiece of a comment. Anyway Diann, All-Abouts still exist as produced by the aforementioned Little Brownie Bakers (http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/cookies/cookiepages/allabouts.html for proof). Instead of "Thanks" in many languages, they have various girl-scout-related sayings on them (and are larger, from what I can tell).

Rob,

I checked out that website yesterday after reading your comment, we must have started typing them around the same time because when I went to comment it wasnt there but after I did, I saw it before mine. Anyway, Yes I saw the all abouts on the website. I guess it just depends on where the cookies are being sold. I only had them once or twice but I recall them being fairly larger cookies. Mm.. cookies.. now I want some =D

Hey, thanks a lot for telling me about Samoa ice cream! I'll be 300 pounds by Christmas!

You know, I was at the grocery store last night, and fully intended to buy some Samoas ice cream (or possibly Thin Mint), but when I arrived at the ice cream section, I was so overwhelmed by the ridiculous sale on the pints of Ben and Jerry's that I totally forgot about the Girl Scout ice cream..and I am PISSED.

Also, have you ever been to www.patrickwalsh.com? I just mistakenly went there for the 2nd time, and a crazy looking guy in a sombrero pops up. yikes.

I just had a Nam-esque flashback to my girl scout days when the shortbread cookies were called Tree Foils...

Samoas are better frozen. Much better.

I can't believe that you ate the entire box! I had 2 today - more than enough!