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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: JonFromMaplewood on March 04, 2009, 12:49:53 PM
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I am partial to Caramel deLites myself (aka Samoas).
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I am partial to Caramel deLites myself (aka Samoas).
When did this atrocious renaming occur?
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Yeah seriously. And what the fuck is a "thanks a lot"?
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Up here in Canada we have Vanilla and Chocolate Girl Guide cookies. I think that's it.
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I am partial to Caramel deLites myself (aka Samoas).
When did this atrocious renaming occur?
Is it a regional thing? I bought some last year from someone in my neighborhood and they were Samoas and then my cousin who lives in DC sent me some and they were carmel delites.
Either way, they're my favorite.
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Every time you have one, you want Samoa.
(yuk yuk)
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I am partial to Caramel deLites myself (aka Samoas).
When did this atrocious renaming occur?
They recently changed their name to Caramel deLites to help gain mainstream acceptance, just like The Rock is now billed solely as Dwayne Johnson. It's just another sign of the difficulties the Samoan American community faces every day in the US.
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I am partial to Caramel deLites myself (aka Samoas).
When did this atrocious renaming occur?
They recently changed their name to Caramel deLites to help gain mainstream acceptance, just like The Rock is now billed solely as Dwayne Johnson. It's just another sign of the difficulties the Samoan American community faces every day in the US.
This is also part of the reason for the mainstream audience's failure to fully embrace Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
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Up here in Canada we have Vanilla and Chocolate Girl Guide cookies. I think that's it.
Yep. And they're both pretty shitty.
You guys are way, way ahead of Canada when it comes to snack foods.
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Tagalongs are the best, but you get at least three Thin Mints for every Tagalong, so every year I find myself doing a cost/benefit analysis while impatient Girl Scouts roll their eyes at me.
We can elect a black man president but we can't get more than four tagalongs in a box? Get your head out of your ass, Girl Scouts.
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It's peanut butter. NO CONTEST. Unfortunately, there seems to be less in the box each time I see them.
But I guess that means I can feel less guilty for eating the whole box!
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I've never eaten a Samoa because I've always been afraid it would taste like the guitarist of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.
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Samoa wins. You can get some kind of imitation of every other cookie they make year round, but there is nothing NOTHING like a Samoa.
I bought 3 cases of them off craigslist from some lady in like Iowa or something last year because I never saw any girl scouts to buy them from. So far this year, 3 different people have bought me boxes, and again, I still haven't seen any actual girl scouts anywhere to buy them myself. Kids these days. :-[
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So far this year, 3 different people have bought me boxes, and again, I still haven't seen any actual girl scouts anywhere to buy them myself. Kids these days. :-[
I had this problem the last few years but a girl scout aged kid moved in across the street a months ago so I'm hoping that changes.
Wow, that sound just a little bit creepy.
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Yes it does.
Trust me, there is no good way to post an ad on craigslist for girl scout cookies either, I highly UNrecommend it.
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Up here in Canada we have Vanilla and Chocolate Girl Guide cookies. I think that's it.
Yep. And they're both pretty shitty.
You guys are way, way ahead of Canada when it comes to snack foods.
Honestly, Girl Scout cookies - when you really look at them - are actually pretty bad. They redeem themselves by appearing at your doorstep just as you start to forget that you actually had ordered them. It is the "someone bringing you cookies to your door" factor that is the appeal. For me anyway. Even a mediocre cookie is great when someone brings you a box of 'em.
But I do buy them every year. And I do eat them.
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Reopening this since (1) it is Girl Scout Cookie season and (2) the new Thank You Berry Munch cookie is a contender for best cookie (despite its horrid name).
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I bought Samoas for the first time this year and man those things are delicious and I rarely like cookies or sweets in general. I wish I would have bought a couple more boxes because the cookie season is over in Minnesota at least. There was an article in the local paper how this year Girl Scouts received the cookies in advance so they could provide customers with the cookies right away but that now most scouts have a ton of boxes to bring back. That's a problem I could have helped with!
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How Two 15-Year-Old Girl Scouts Are Changing a Giant Food Conglomerate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/how-two-15year-old-girl-s_b_839489.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/how-two-15year-old-girl-s_b_839489.html)
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I wouldn't go so far as to call the brother, fat. I mean, he's Samoan. So of course he's fat.
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I don't know what a lot of those cookies are... but I want to.
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Not sorry to see the shortbread polling badly. My gf just told me she gave hers away--they tasted too chemical-y.
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Tagalongs are my favorite, followed closely by the thin mints. The samoa cookies have never done it for me honestly.
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Tagalongs are my favorite, followed closely by the thin mints. The samoa cookies have never done it for me honestly.
Thank you. I have the same order of preference. I don't get this Samoa love.
I like the shortbread cookies but it's not like one brand of shortbread cookies is much different than the next. You may as well get Lorna Doones. And I feel dumb buying such a simple cookie; feels like I ought to bake them. Shortbread cookies do dip in tea well. Normal English biscuits and graham crackers, their nearest American "flavor buddy," disintegrate. What's called for is a simple cookie that holds together well when dipped.
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I don't like Samoas b/c coconut is texturally the worst thing to eat ever. I'd rather eat raw human flesh.
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I don't like Samoas b/c coconut is texturally the worst thing to eat ever. I'd rather eat raw human flesh.
Hmmm...I just thought of a stunt for next year's marathon that I will suggest to Ken and Andy.
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i'm all about samoas, in my top 5 favorite cookies ever.
but i really love coconut
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How can you enjoy the texture of coconut? It's like eating paper or styrofoam, but worse
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Patton Oswalt discussed this on Twitter recently. Frozen thin mints are the best.
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Tagalongs are my favorite, followed closely by the thin mints. The samoa cookies have never done it for me honestly.
Thank you. I have the same order of preference. I don't get this Samoa love.
I like the shortbread cookies but it's not like one brand of shortbread cookies is much different than the next. You may as well get Lorna Doones. And I feel dumb buying such a simple cookie; feels like I ought to bake them. Shortbread cookies do dip in tea well. Normal English biscuits and graham crackers, their nearest American "flavor buddy," disintegrate. What's called for is a simple cookie that holds together well when dipped.
Do you ever fly Delta? A first for this forum, a crossover with the Flyertalk discussion board. Delta's Biscoff cookie is outstanding when dunked in coffee, of all things. Even airplane coffee.
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How can you enjoy the texture of coconut? It's like eating paper or styrofoam, but worse
what coconut are you eating?
you weren't raised in some kind of Dogtooth scenario were you?
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Fudge
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Tagalongs are my favorite, followed closely by the thin mints. The samoa cookies have never done it for me honestly.
Thank you. I have the same order of preference. I don't get this Samoa love.
I like the shortbread cookies but it's not like one brand of shortbread cookies is much different than the next. You may as well get Lorna Doones. And I feel dumb buying such a simple cookie; feels like I ought to bake them. Shortbread cookies do dip in tea well. Normal English biscuits and graham crackers, their nearest American "flavor buddy," disintegrate. What's called for is a simple cookie that holds together well when dipped.
Do you ever fly Delta? A first for this forum, a crossover with the Flyertalk discussion board. Delta's Biscoff cookie is outstanding when dunked in coffee, of all things. Even airplane coffee.
I believe those are speculoos! I'm a little obsessed.
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We just had speculoos à tartiner at work yesterday, one of my coworkers was in Belgium.
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I just discovered that speculoos cereal (it's difficult to google because "céréales" also means grains) exists... a week after I was there.
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
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Oh, get a room!
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I'm a little bit jealous.
Also, KC, ha to the Dogtooth crack!
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
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How can you enjoy the texture of coconut? It's like eating paper or styrofoam, but worse
Specifically, eating coconut in candy is like eating a bunch of those little flags on Hershey's Kisses.
I'm surprised there isn't more talk of this all-new "Thank You Berry Munch" in this thread. If ever there was a cookie that seemed specifically named for Best Show listeners...do they add something with "Fuuuudge" in the name next year?
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Do Girl Scouts have Devil's Food? The ones that you eat whole?
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It is SAMOAS for my teens, but no scouts have come to our house in years. They've all grown-up and moved on to hanging out under the Hobo heater! So, I'll be stocking up when the young girl scouts block the exits from the train station during rush hour to sell their cookies! Any day now....
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For all you SAMOAS fans; since it's post-girl scout cookie season, I wanted to let you know that Keebler's Coconut Dreams are on the supermarket shelves, aka Samoas!
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Poison!
Palm oil!
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There are so few legal vices for the under 21 set, so I say let them have their sugar and a little palm oil.
The anti-palm oil movement is important, and there is some environmentally safer palm oil production being done. Evil palm oil and eviler corn syrup are in most commercial baked goods. Now instead of saying high fructose corn syrup, the labels just say fructose to confuse the issue. And palm oil is there because people weren't buying hydrogenated oil products. Look how long it took for the trans-fat bans.
I usually buy all butter products, but mostly I bake my own, substituting agave or honey for corn syrup in recipes that call for it. I know most people won't take the time to do their own baking, but it is a very rewarding endeavor and the only way to know exactly what goes into your food and snacks.
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How many recipes do you follow that call for corn syrup? I come across it very rarely. Mostly in candy recipes, and who makes candy all the time?
That said, there is a particular candy that I make every year or so, the recipe for which involves one tablespoon of Karo. I use it without guilt or qualm.
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FOUL! Taglongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
Just noticed this. You are correct. My apologies for the error. But then again, even if we tally both Tagalongs and Peanut Butter Patties together, Samoas still win. And Peanut Butter Patties even had the benefit of being listed first.
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The ubiquitous corn syrup is in all sorts of recipes. Icings and glazes for shine, breads for enhanced browning, and cookies to keep them softer longer, candies, and sorbets for creamy texture. I think corn syrup probably came into use in American recipes as people abandoned the strong flavor of molasses. In the baking industry it was probably used because it is a cheaper product. Supposedly it's not bad in itself, but the equipment it is processed on is extremely old and leeches mercury into the syrup. Anyway, honey and low glycemic agave can be substituted and they are worry free. Except the honey from those bees that indulged in the syrup leaking from old maraschino cherry vats, and who then made red honey, which was bitter and tasteless. Sweet nectar is sweet nectar to the poor bees, who couldn't tell the difference between the corn syrup and red dye and natural nectar. I think the beekeepers lost a lot of honey revenues and bees on that recently.
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FOUL! Tagalongs ARE Peanut Butter Patties.
Good day, sir!
Just noticed this. You are correct. My apologies for the error. But then again, even if we tally both Tagalongs and Peanut Butter Patties together, Samoas still win. And Peanut Butter Patties even had the benefit of being listed first.
I'm a Thin Mint man, myself.
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Voting's closed?
When forced:
Peanut Butter Sandwich
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I'm a Thin Mint man, myself.
Of course.