{"id":49758,"date":"2015-03-06T07:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/there-are-girl-scout-cookies-and-then-there-are-girl-scout-cookies.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:41:36","slug":"there-are-girl-scout-cookies-and-then-there-are-girl-scout-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/there-are-girl-scout-cookies-and-then-there-are-girl-scout-cookies.html","title":{"rendered":"There are Girl Scout Cookies, and then there are Girl Scout Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, there are two major bakeries that do Girl Scout Cookies &#8212; Little Brownie and ABC.  In general, Little Brownie (purple on the map) does a better job. If your Thin Mints have dimples &#8212; you&#39;re not getting the best Thin Mints.<\/p>\n<p>(We did our own taste comparison a few years back, with similar results: <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/girl-scout-cookie-bakery-face-off.html\">https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/girl-scout-cookie-bakery-face-off.html<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/crime\/2015\/03\/why-bostons-girl-scout-cookies-suck-compared-to-nycs\/386854\/?utm_source=SFFB'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-mXs1DLamDwQ4G_Iq1njoiH8ef0eBUkWrab6V2-U-ju55KqEmmFcvIIskPzECLZ1LrbRSHKk0iOhmYm1zHJ-CrY59E1B2Hy_h6vD1nhUAJ-YqQLstTMAlUg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/crime\/2015\/03\/why-bostons-girl-scout-cookies-suck-compared-to-nycs\/386854\/?utm_source=SFFB'>Why Boston&#8217;s Girl Scout Cookies Suck Compared to NYC&#8217;s<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAn L.A. Times investigative report reveals that not all Thin Mints are created equal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Gf44SvHp3xE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, there are two major bakeries that do Girl Scout Cookies &#8212; Little Brownie and ABC. In general, Little Brownie (purple on the map) does a better job. If your Thin Mints have dimples &#8212; you&#39;re not getting the best Thin Mints. (We did our own taste comparison a few years back, with similar results: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/there-are-girl-scout-cookies-and-then-there-are-girl-scout-cookies.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There are Girl Scout Cookies, and then there are Girl Scout Cookies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16955,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/girl-scout-cookie-bakery-face-off.html","url_meta":{"origin":49758,"position":0},"title":"Girl Scout Cookie Bakery Face-Off!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Mar-10 7:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There were two companies baking Girl Scout cookies this year -- ABC, and Little Brownie Bakers.\u00a0 By coincidence, ABC was the company serving Jim & Ginger's neighborhood in California, while LBB were supplying the local Denver area. 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Embedded Link The New Girl Scout Cookie Tastes Like BULLSHIT Did you know that the Girl Scouts, America's rag-tag cr\u00e8me puff children's militia, are rolling out a new cookie this year? \"Oh my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22481,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-fri-2-sep-11-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":49758,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri.  2-Sep-11 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Sep-11 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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