Girl Scout cookies go on sale today. Thin Mints are still available. So are Samoas, Tagalongs, Trefoils, and Savannah Smiles.
There’s also a new, slightly healthier cookie, the Rah-Rah Raisin, which brags of its oatmeal, sugary but once-a-grape raisins, and chunks that are flavored not like any old yogurt, but like Greek yogurt.
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But the real news—which spokeswoman Kathryn Kiefer pressed us not to reveal yet, for fear that you will become angry when you learn that you must wait six weeks and cannot even pre-order—is the gluten-free Toffee-tastic. It tastes, Kiefer says, a lot like the pecan shortbread cookie the elves make. And it is devoid of gluten. Why? Because 29 percent of us are shunning the stuff.
The Toffee-tastic goes on sale at Girl Scout Cookie booths on February 25, and you’ll have until March 15 to buy them. (Where are the booths? The shorter answer is where they’re not. Try going back to church, or taking over the grocery shopping from your spouse.)
Toffee-tastics do cost a wee bit more—5 bucks a box. But the deeper sadness is the impossibility of buying a box of Trios, the other gluten-free cookie the Girl Scouts are introducing in 2015. If we tell you it consists of chocolate chips “nestled” in peanut butter and oatmeal, are you angrier still?
Kiefer assures us that the Eastern Missouri council “didn’t dis the cookie. It just wasn’t available. Every council chooses either Little Brownie Bakers or ABC Bakers to bake their cookies. Little Brownie is our baker, and it makes the Toffee-Tastic. ABC Bakers makes the Trio.”
(If you’re desperate enough for a road trip, the closest test market is central Illinois. But first place your regular order with our Scouts.)
