A Windy City resident? You're munching on Tagalongs.
(Why deLite? Perhaps because it has five fewer calories than the Samoa, and one less gram of fat.) If you're in Nebraska, you're eating Peanut Butter Patties. That coconutty, caramelly, chocolatey concoction known as the Samoa in the Bay Area is called a Caramel deLite just a stone's throw away in Sacramento. Each company distributes to different areas of the country, each cookie recipe is slightly different, and, each, except for the Thin Mint, has a different name. You'd think these companies would cooperate and call each cookie by the same name-and you would be wrong. To streamline the process, that number went down to four in the late 1970s, and in the 1990s, it decreased even further to two: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers (a division of a company you might have heard of). Cookies have different names, depending on who bakes them.įor a while, each Girl Scout council could choose its own baker, and at one point there were 29 different companies making the cookies. While you may know your Tagalongs from your Do-si-dos, here are a few things you might not know about the names of Girl Scout cookies. In 1935, the words “Girl Scout Cookies” appeared on the boxes for the first time, and in 1936, the national organization began using commercial bakers. By the 1920s, they were using a simple sugar cookie recipe, perhaps based on one published in a July 1922 issue of The American Girl magazine. Back then, the scouts baked the cookies themselves and sold them door to door. Girl Scout Week may be over, but Girl Scout cookie season is still going strong.
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