The 2011 Girl Scout Cookie Sale has officially started!
From now until February 8, Girl Scouts in Western Ohio will be setting sales goals, asking friends and family to buy all Super Six varities of cookies and best of all, they'll be developing essential life skills and having fun!
This year, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio is proud to be part of a pilot program with Little Brownie Bakers - the Super Six! Our Girl Scouts will be selling six delicious varieties of cookies - Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Samoas, Trefoils, Do-si-dos and Lemon Chalet Cremes.
Some 'fun facts' about this year's Girl Scout Cookies:
- - Little Brownie Baker bakes more than 4.5 million Thin Mints PER DAY during peak baking times
- - LBB makes their own caramel for Samoas - the old fashioned way in copper kettles
- - Do-si-dos and Taglongs take 230,000 POUNDS of peanut butter. Per week.
- - Peanut butter creme is deposited on Do-si-do cookies at the rate of 2,800 cookies per minute!
- - A rotary die shapes Trefoils - there are 300 identical Trefoil shapes engraved in one rotary die. The die rotates 17 times a minute, equaling 5,100 cookies per minute!
And just in case you wanted to make a grocery list for a week's worth of baking Girl Scout Cookies...this is what you'd need:
- 21 truckloads of flour (1,050,000 pounds)
- 7 truckloads of shortening (300,000 pounds)
- 50,000 lbs of cocoa
- 500,000 lbs of chocolate coating
- 14.5 truckloads of sugar (650,000 pounds)
- 230,000 lbs of peanut butter
- 75,000 lbs of toasted coconut
Don't forget - every cookie has a mission ... to help girls do great things!
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