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• When Girl Scout Cookie Sellers Do It e-Bay

  First Girl Scout cookies decided to get all health conscious on us, as Kelly told us last week. Now comes even more disturbing news: Some people are now selling Samoas, Trefoils and Thin Mints on e-Bay. The Poop, the San Francisco Chronicle's baby blog, pointed out that several individuals are pushing Girl Scout cookies on the popular Internet auction site. Of course, the young members of this organization are not allowed to hawk their sugary wares online. Anyone who does so is clearly breaking the rules. But I take less issue with that than I do with adults re-selling the cookies themselves, which apparently is not unheard of. Take a look at this posting. This guy wants $10.50 for three boxes of Tagalongs. Here is his justification for selling them: "These cookies are cookies that I purchased myself  to help out the Girl Scouts.  So this is my personal property. Since I cannot eat all myself I do sell all the extras I can.  So this is not against any rules the Girl Scouts have in place for there [sic] girls not allowed to sell on the Internet."   Read More... Posted Mar 18 2008, 11:02 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Girl Scout cookies, e-Bay

• Girl Scouts Cut Trans Fats from Cookies

  Following in the wake of other manufacturers who rid their products of trans fats after the FDA began requiring changes to food labels to divulge information on the substance last year, the Girl Scouts are announcing that their entire line of cookies is trans fat free.  Well, almost.  FDA regulations state that labels can carry the words "zero trans fats" if they have a trace or more than a trace of the artery-clogging nasty stuff.  Girl Scouts cookies will carry up to half a gram of it per serving, which adds up quickly when you've consumed an entire row of Thin Mints in one sitting.  Oops, maybe that's just me.  Anyway, the new cookies are healthi-er, and that's an improvement.  There's even a new sugar-free cookie (bleh).  And they say that the taste of the new cookies hasn't been affected adversely.  I'll just be the judge of that, thank you.  Now gimme another box, willya?   [via That's Fit] Posted Feb 24 2007, 05:52 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: food, health, cookies, trans fats, Girl Scout cookies