The Girl Scouts also have an app to search for cookies. You may also be able to buy cookies online from a Girl Scout you know through the Digital Cookie platform. The cookie season for local councils last about a six- to eight-weeks per year. Most occur between January and April, but some are as early as September. Facebook Twitter Email. I always thought the different names were regional like places with a heavy Pacific Islander population had somehow rejected the name "Samoas.
Answers posted by Shahid who seems to have an inside scoop:. The reason there are two names is because while similar, the cookies have some differences. Samoas are made by Little Brownie Bakers. They are circular, with an orange color and are thicker from top to bottom, usually they also contain more caramel per coconut, and they are made with dark chocolate. While Samoas put most of the emphasis on the toppings, Caramel deLites use them as a complement for the cookie.
They include a milkier chocolate than Samoas and a light vanilla flavor. Despite having the same name, the two smores flavors of Girl Scout cookies are entirely different in terms of taste and appearance. These two Girl Scout Cookie Flavors have almost no differences, as they both taste and look practically identical. The only real distinction is that the Tagalongs have more layers of peanut butter inside their chocolate coating, while Peanut Butter Patties have a vanilla layer to complement the peanut butter filling.
Tagalongs, obviously, have a way better name. These kinds of Girl Scout Cookies are almost exactly the same. Savannah Smiles are crisp, lemon-flavored cookies coated in powdered sugar, while Lemonades are Shortbread cookies with a lemon-flavored filling. In most cases, the Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers cookies have similar nutritional values, but a comparison of these two shows that Lemonades are significantly less healthy than Savannah Smiles.
Unconfirmed internet research suggests that each independent bakery that bakes for the Girl Scouts uses their own recipe, so the Samoas brand cookie really is not the same cookie as the Caramel deLites brand cookie. In fairness to all the hard working Girl Scout bakeries, I must admit that we thoroughly enjoyed the two boxes of Caramel deLites we purchased. Little Brownie Bakers took action to protect its intangible asset by filing a federal trademark application.
What likely seemed like a small investment in an inconsequential asset was sold to Kellogg North America Company in A trademark success story to be sure.
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