For nearly a century, Girl Scout cookies have been made and sold nationally in the United States. Popular flavors such as Samoa, Tagalong, Trefoil and the ever-popular Thin Mints have become a staple in American culture. Today in 2012, the cookies are made in large commercial bakeries, but when the Girl Scouts were first established in 1917, the cookies came from the troop members own homes. With supervision from their mothers, the girls would bake dozens of sugar cookies, seal them up and sell them, freshly made, door to door for only 30 cents per dozen. (http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/cookie_history/early_years.asp) It wasn’t until the 1930’s that the Girl Scouts were sell their first commercial cookies. The Girl Scout Federation of Greater New York would be one of the first to market cookies with the Girl Scout brand on the box as well as the first to use the Trefoil cookie that we all know and love today. From then on, the flavors began to expand. In the 1950’s, flavors included peanut butter sandwich (known today as Do-Si-Dos), shortbread (Trefoil) and chocolate mint (known today as Thin Mints). What started in the humble homes of troop members quickly grew into a large American franchise as well as an American tradition.
The History of Girl Scout Cookies
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