Girl Scout Cookies

For Easter this year we went back to Greenville, SC to spend it with my family. It's been a good trip--so far, I've gotten a much needed haircut, gotten a plate full of barbeque at Bucky's Bar-B-Q, the greatest restaurant on earth, and gotten to see a bunch of old friends along the way.

I'd like to take a moment to address a group of people that--I believe--have been pulling the wool over the eyes of America for all too long...and I intend to expose their trickery and duplicity. And that group is...

...the Girl Scouts of America.

When I moved from South Carolina to Alabama for college, the first spring I was there I was excited to see the girl scouts out at my local grocery store selling cookies. I went to get some Peanut Butter Patties, my all time favorite girl scout cookies. But when I went to order, I was confused. They were asking me if I wanted things I'd never heard of before. Things called "Tagalongs"..."Trefoils"...it was like they were speaking a foreign language.

I came to find out that they WERE speaking a foreign language. In Alabama and Tennessee (and other parts of the country) Girl Scout cookies have different names. Same cookie, different names. For example, my Peanut Butter Patties were called "Tagalongs". What an unappetizing name! Lyndsay, having grown up in Tennessee, thinks that this is all normal and that I am the one being ridiculous.

So every year since, I usually get my box of Tagalongs when the girl scouts start selling their cookies. I guess they're the same...but...it just seems like it's not quite right. I try to tell Lyndsay that it's just not the same, but she thinks I'm crazy.

So today, since I was back in South Carolina for Easter, I was thrilled to receive my very own box of "Peanut Butter Patties" that my mom had gotten for me.

They are every bit as delicious as I remember them being. I took a picture of the box...it's EXACTLY the same as the "Tagalongs" box, except with the different name. Same colors, same pictures, same font, even. I think the Girl Scouts should sue themselves for taste infringement, much like the Coke Zero folks are trying to do in their commercials.