The Truth About Girl Scout Cookies
A plastic container of Lemon-Ups Girl Scout cookies suffer from severe shrinkflation at a whopping 6.2 ounces. “Girl boss” slogans are printed on the cookies. “I am a leader, I am strong, I am an innovator.” All that good meaningless corporatespeak for young cookie sellers to aspire to. Tons of saturated fat, artificial flavors and other garbage in these. Propylene glycol alginate?
According to the package, these cookies provide “life skills - setting girls up with the skills they need to succeed in life” and “Entrepreneurship - preparing girls with business smarts to take on the world.”
I guess the people marketing these cookies want you to think that having your mom force you to stand outside a supermarket all day to sell overpriced, unhealthy cookies on behalf of a large cookie corporation is the same thing as having a degree from Harvard Business School. Also: you have to sell a hell of a lot of cookies to raise any money at all for your Girl Scout troop.
—Alex
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Nirvana Wok - Mar 28, 2022