15 Finger-Licking Facts About Girl Scout Cookies
![15 Finger-Licking Facts About Girl Scout Cookies](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/8/777108_320x180.jpg)
No matter what your feelings on the Girl Scouts are, we all become supporters of them during their cookie season. Girl Scout cookie season is the only time when someone knocking at your door to sell you something that makes you happy. Millions of people look forward to this reverse trick-and-treating every year, and then feast on the chocolatey, minty, peanut buttery, and caramelly goodness no matter the cost.
Everyone has their favorite. Everyone says it's Thin Mints. Everyone says, “They taste better when you put them in the freezer.” We all know this.
But there are several things about Girl Scout cookies that you probably don't know. Like how they are working on being able to deliver them straight to your home via drones. You can't make this stuff up.
If you have any Thin Mints, Samoas, or Tagalongs around, grab a few to enjoy while you learn a bit more about these wandering snacks.
![Girl Scout cookies steal Oreos thunder when they're out. All other cookies (even Oreos) know to expect to get their butts roundly kicked during Girl Scout cookie season. As they don't want everyone to hate them, companies do nothing to try and compete.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/5/777095.jpg)
Source: World Economic Forum
![Girl Scouts were banned from selling cookies outside their founder's home. A complaint in 2010 stopped Girl Scouts from setting up their cookie stands outside Juliette Gordon Low's house, in Savannah, Georgia, as sidewalk peddling was outlawed. They were allowed back the following year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/5/777105.jpg)
Sources: Cleveland.com, Savannah Morning News
![Katie Francis is the queen of Girl Scout Cookies. Each individual Girl Scout sells about 150-200 boxes every year. Francis pushed 180,000 boxes through the 2010s, peaking at 44,400 in 2020.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/4/777104.jpg)
Sources: Katie Francis, Priceonomics
![Girl Scout cookies were replaced by calendars during World War II. GIRL Scout CooKie SaLe 140 Wartime shortages of sugar, flour, and butter forced Girl Scouts to find some other way to raise money, so they started selling calendars instead. Cookies came back with a vengeance when war was over.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/0/777100.jpg)
Source: Girl Scouts
![Girl Scout cookies are almost as old as the Girl Scouts. The organization was founded in 1912, and in 1917 the girls started selling cookies to finance their activities. By the 1930s, the cookies were so popular that Girl Scouts began licensing commercial bakers to make them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/1/0/777110.jpg)
Source: Girl Scouts
![200 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies are sold every year. During each January-April season, crowds of Girl Scouts sell a combined 200 million boxes, raising $800 million for the organization's activities and projects. Thin Mints and Samoas/Caramel deLites are the most popular cookies.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/9/777099.jpg)
Source: USA Today
![You can find Girl Scout cookies with your phone. If you can't wait to taste some Thin Mints or Trefoils during cookie season, an app for your phone will tell you where Girl Scouts are selling cookies, like a tastier Pokemon Go.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/2/777102.jpg)
Sources: App Store, Google Play
![Soon you may have Girl Scout Cookies delivered to you by drone. In 2021, a Virginia troop partnered with Google's sister company Wing to deliver cookies by drone during the COVID pandemic. Initially restricted to Christiansburg, VA, the program is expected to grow.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/3/777103.jpg)
Source: USA Today
![A Girl Scout personally sold cookies to the president. Virginia-born Elizabeth Brinton sold over 100,000 boxes through the ’80s. And no wonder -- she was such an assertive salesperson, she managed to be allowed into the Oval Office and sold cookies to Ronald Reagan.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/1/777101.gif)
Source: Priceonomics, Reagan Library on YouTube
![All Girl Scout cookies come from two bakeries. Every cookie you can sink your eager teeth into comes from either Little Brownie Bakers or ABC Bakers. Some varieties have two different names, depending on which company baked them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/8/777098.jpg)
Source: Girl Scouts
![Thin Mints have gone by many names. thin mints. The top-selling Girl Scout cookies were called Cooky-Mints when they debuted in 1939. After that, they went by Chocolate Mints, Thin Mints, Cookie Mints, Chocolate Mints (again), and then Thin Mints once more.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/0/6/777106.jpg)
Source: Time
![Girl Scouts boycott their own cookies sometimes.Yes, the cookies are delicious, but they're also made with palm oil. As the palm oil industry is linked to deforestation and child labor, troops have boycotted the cookies demanding changes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/4/777094.jpg)
Source: Yahoo Life
![Up to 29 companies baked Girl Scout cookies at one point. In 1948, with the cookies becoming popular again after World War II, a total of 29 companies were licensed to bake them. Starting in the 1970s, the number was reduced to achieve a uniform quality.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/6/777096.jpg)
Source: Girl Scouts
![Your cookies may be different, depending on where you get them. Thin Mints in Los Angeles have a smoother chocolate coating, while those bought in Orange County are crunchier and have more mint in them. Cookies may differ, depending on which bakery they come from.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/2/777092.jpg)
Source: Los Angeles Times
![You can bake original-flavor Girl Scout cookies. You can find the recipe used in the 1920s on the Girl Scouts website. Now you don't need to wait for cookie season!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/9/3/777093.jpg)
Source: Girl Scouts