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Credit crisis, housing crisis, healthcare crisis, and now this... :-}

.akashastrega
01/27/09 12:19 AM GMT
COOKIE CRISIS (copy/pasted from recent article)

It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head. To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes.

According to the organization, the cost of flour rose by 30 percent, assorted cooking oils by 40 percent, and cocoa by at least 20 percent. The company felt this was the best method of dealing with increasing raw material prices. Alternatively, Girl Scouts could have used cheaper ingredients, or raised cookie prices from their current price of $3.50 per box.

This doesn't come as a surprise to me, since last year producers began rolling out shrunken products in reaction to the price of food on the rise.

I CAN DEAL WITH ROB NOT HAVING A JOB, BILLS ARE PILING UP, THINGS LOOK BAD...BUT I CAN HANDLE ALL THAT. THIS, HOWEVER, MUST BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY!!!
MR. OBAMA, FIX THIS COOKIE CRISIS!!!
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+purmusic
01/27/09 1:53 AM GMT
O.O

(*faints ...*)
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.akashastrega
01/27/09 4:27 AM GMT
Les, I thought this one would get you. We must do something about this!!!
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&mimi
01/27/09 4:31 AM GMT
terrible thing to happen...to the Girl Scouts of all people..sad, sad......
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~mimi~
.chumly_12
01/27/09 4:40 AM GMT
NO!! COOKIES!!! NO!!!!!!!

*bumps to top of presidential 'to do' list*
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Question: is the glass half full or half empty...... Answer: dont care about silly things like that just enjoy the drink
::0930_23
01/27/09 4:47 AM GMT
Appoints Kookie Monster to head Kommittee on Keebler Krooked Kookie Krunch.
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Check the shadows to see if you are there
::rp64
01/27/09 4:56 AM GMT
Finds Filthy Fraud From Formulating Factories.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!
.akashastrega
01/27/09 5:43 AM GMT
Who's with me? I say we march on Washington and DEMAND to be heard. DEMAND that something be done about this. There is only so much we can take, and THIS is the straw that will break the camels back!! Whats next? Oreo double stuff becomes Oreo barely stuffed??? Say it isn't so!!!
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+purmusic
01/27/09 6:30 AM GMT
(*comes to after the paramedics wave a couple of Blueberry Cheesecake Crunch cookies under his nose ...*)

(*reads posts to thread since ...*)

O.O

(*faints ... yet, again*)

:oP
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::laurengary
01/27/09 3:14 PM GMT
Huh.... why don't you all just switch to Quacker oatmeal granola bars ? The chocolate chip ones are chewy. Yum.

They can be a real nice substitute for you Les.
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+philcUK
01/27/09 3:25 PM GMT
could be worse - even goats are finding times tough, yes - goats.


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::rp64
01/27/09 5:03 PM GMT
~~ROFLMAO~~ Good one Phil!
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.mxvirgil
01/27/09 6:13 PM GMT
The goat declined comment.

And what's the big deal with GS cookies?!?! They're nasty and way over-priced! They need to be teaching the girls to -bake- cookies at home and not beg door-to-door. hehehe
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::laurengary
01/27/09 7:29 PM GMT
Blasphemy sir !!!! I'm calling NOW on you !!
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I've got amnesia & deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before ! ......CLICK TO SAVE LIVES ! .......MY GALLERY
::rp64
01/27/09 7:40 PM GMT
~~Does that /\ stand for "Nasty Overweight Women" ?~~

~~ ~~

~~Hightails it for the hills~~
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.akashastrega
01/27/09 8:34 PM GMT
Ooooooh....there's gonna be a fight!

Well, maybe the punishment for the goat is to help ease costs of GS Cookies by donating its milk. The goat does its time for its crime, and the GS Cookies don't have to get shrunk!

Its a win-win situation if you ask me!
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.mxvirgil
01/27/09 10:29 PM GMT
Jenn, they're not as good as they used to be -- they keep cheapening the recipe. Why, I thought the 'G' stood for 'Goat' anyway...
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::third_eye
01/27/09 10:52 PM GMT
Perhaps a new gourmet offering is on it's way from the Girl Scouts?
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::rp64
01/28/09 2:34 AM GMT
Or perhaps here
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::third_eye
01/28/09 2:42 AM GMT
mmm mmm MMM

nothing like a good piece of Brownie :P
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::rp64
01/28/09 2:45 AM GMT
Hey Rob, how'd you get thrown out of the Boy Scouts again?
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::third_eye
01/28/09 2:55 AM GMT
I asked if "scout's honor" meant "don't ask, don't tell".
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::rp64
01/28/09 2:57 AM GMT
hhhmmmm...was Mike part of your troop ?
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::third_eye
01/28/09 3:04 AM GMT
no, I think he was out selling cookies ;-)
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+purmusic
01/28/09 3:04 AM GMT
/\ LOLOL /\ at all of the above.

:oD
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::rp64
01/28/09 3:05 AM GMT
~~Sorry you started this thread yet, Jenn?~~
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::solita17
01/28/09 4:48 AM GMT
I hated, hated, hated being in Girl Scouts! Never liked the cookies, and every time we went on a field trip someone would barf... probably from said cookies... and that was always the high point of the excursions...
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::laurengary
01/28/09 4:58 AM GMT
Yeah, there's nothing like a little vomit to liven up a camping trip.

Anybody want a cookie ? Brownie ? Tootsie pop ?
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I've got amnesia & deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before ! ......CLICK TO SAVE LIVES ! .......MY GALLERY
::rp64
01/28/09 5:02 AM GMT
Ice cream ?
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!
::danika
01/28/09 5:02 AM GMT
Mike, where did you put that bucket of yours?
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give ~ Winston Churchill
.mxvirgil
01/28/09 3:19 PM GMT
Mr. Creosote has it.
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::danika
01/28/09 4:24 PM GMT
Would Mr. Creosote happen to be the CEO of GS Cookies?

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give ~ Winston Churchill
.akashastrega
01/28/09 8:54 PM GMT
I need cookies today!!! Girl Scout, Oreos...it doesn't matter.
My daughters kitty died, and she is devastated. As a mom, I want to fix things, but know that she needs to feel her emotions and work it out on her own...that my job is to provide comfort...
My comfort= COOKIES
Snickerdoodles, 7 layer yummies, Toll House.

SOMEBODY GET ME SOME COOKIES NOW!!!
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Feisty Woman= One who is vibrant, gutsy, lives boldly, is true to herself, and embraces her power as a woman!
::laurengary
01/28/09 9:07 PM GMT
Ohh, I'm so sorry Jenn !! I know exactly how she feels, I lost my 5 1/2 year old dog Storm, to cancer a few weeks ago. You give your daughter a big hug & kiss from her Auntie Lauren, okay ?

But your on your own for your cookies, sorry hon. ;-D
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I've got amnesia & deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before ! ......CLICK TO SAVE LIVES ! .......MY GALLERY
.mxvirgil
01/29/09 5:16 AM GMT
I'll share my mocha-walnut cookies, Jenn. Sheryl makes them with dark cocoa, expresso and black walnuts...
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.akashastrega
02/09/09 11:53 AM GMT
Housing crisis, credit crisis, cookie crisis...
AND NOW...
Steve O will be on Dancing With The Stars this season!!!
Oy!!
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