From oatmeal to Girl Scout cookies. Today we'll be on the lookout for our No. 1 Girl Scout, as we bought two boxes from her this year. (Thin Mints and Samoas.) Which comes to mind because of this well-timed story from the AP, touting the "no trans-fat" thing in this, the 90th year of the cookie program. (Gee, that's a long time in the kitchen.)
For everything you wanted to know about Girl Scouts, including the cookies, click here.
You may remember some years ago that the Girl Scouts made their famous edibles with "reduced fat." Then the thinking was, "Great. We'll just be tempted to eat twice as many." Michael also reminded me of the reduced- nicotine cigarette craze many years ago. Ingenious on the part of the manufacturers; get people to smoke/buy twice as much--or more--for the same effect.
Back to the Scouts, Boy and Girl. Great organizations. (An admission: Many years ago, yours truly went through a Scouting program but was disillusioned to discover all the "classes" were on food preparation. Like in a kitchen. We got badges and stuff for bringing in donuts and singing songs. Silly me, thinking we'd learn how to build fires and go camping.)
Great cookies, though. Pass the milk.
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