This is the time of the year when Girl Scout cookies begin making their way from the bakeries to girl scout homes in anticipation of the upcoming year's cookie sale.Today we picked up 828 boxes of cookies that will be distributed to our local daisy troop. Annually the Girl Scouts sell about 200 million boxes. The first recorded sale of cookies by a scout unit was in 1917. In 1933 the Girl Scouts in Philadelphia organized the first official sale of homemade cookies. In 1937 commercial bakeries began making the cookies.
The most popular varieties of cookies are Thin Mints (25% of total sales), Caramel deLites (19%), and Peanut Butter Patties (13%). About 10-15% of the price of a cookie box stays with the local troop to be used for local activities. So on a $4 box, the local troop will keep about 40-60 cents per box. Enjoy this national tradition and help your local troop by supporting this year's sale.
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