Thursday, February 6, 2014

Cookie Name Change

It's Girl Scout Cookie season! I avoided buying any, but got a box of caramel delites as gift today. Why caramel delites? Isn't it equally, if not more prudent that they are made of coconut?

The box sitting on the corner of my desk sparked a lot of conversation about why they weren't called samoas anymore. After a bit of research into when the name changed, I learned there doesn't seem to be concern about offending people from Samoa, but rather, just a different baking company licensed to produce them.

Excepts from Wikipedia: 
Girl Scout cookies are made by large national commercial bakeries under license from Girl Scouts of the USA. The bakers licensed by the organization may change from year to year, though this is not common. In 2008 the licensed companies were Little Brownie Bakers (LBB), a subsidiary of Keebler, which is owned by Kellogg's; and ABC Bakers, a subsidiary of Interbake Foods, which is owned by George Weston Limited.[10][11][12]ABC Bakers has been licensed to produce Girl Scout cookies since 1936.

Girl Scout cookie varieties include:

ABC[16]LBB[17]Sales[8]Flavor
Thin MintsThin Mints25%Thin, mint-flavored chocolate wafers dipped in a chocolate coating[18]
Caramel deLitesSamoas19%Vanilla cookies coated in caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut and laced with chocolate stripes.[14]
Peanut Butter PattiesTagalongs13%Crispy vanilla cookies layered with peanut butter and covered with a chocolate coating

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