It’s Girl Scout cookie time on the Space Coast; here’s a look at our five favorites – Florida Today

As you enter the supermarket, an immaculate, beautifully dressed child approaches you with a smiling, pleading expression. You stop.

Please, she says, puppy dog eyes cast upward. Would you buy some Girl Scout cookies?

Its the third time today. You guess youll take four boxes.

So goes it this time of year, every year, from January through February. It is Girl Scout cookie season, when little girls in neighborhoods and in front of supermarkets and stores become junior entrepreneurs.

They will swarm you to sell a $5 box of Caramel Chocolate Chip, Caramel DeLites (Samoas), Girl Scout Smores, Lemonades, Peanut Butter Patties (Tagalongs), Peanut Butter Sandwiches. Shortbreads (Trefoils), Thanks-A-Lots or Thin Mints, and you will buy.

Look for Girl Scout cookies to be sold in front of grocery stores in January and February across the Space Coast.(Photo: JOE LAMBERTI/COURIER POST-USA TODAY NETWORK NJ)

There is nothing like Girl Scout cookies, and it has been that way since 1917, when a troop in Oklahoma baked and sold cookies as a service project.

Now about a million Scouts sell more than 200 million boxes of cookies every year, according to USA Today, and the kids who plead with you at the doors of Walmartand Publixmanage an $800 million business. What is taken in by Girl Scouts of Citrus (Citrus Council) stays within Girl Scouts of Citrus.

Its pusher, I mean Girl Scout cookie time, Peccina Pontremoli, a member of FLORIDA TODAYs Facebook group, 321 Flavor: Where Brevard Eats, said with a laugh. It really is (addictive). I'm over here like, I've been doing so good on my losing weight, new year, new year new me! And then they show right back up. Ha ha ha!

Girl Scout cookies have been an annual tradition since 1917.(Photo: JOE LAMBERTI/COURIER POST-USA TODAY NETWORK NJ)

Chef, former restaurant owner and consultant Kathy Fridl takes her love of the sweet treats to another level.

You know you're an addict when you have the Girl Scout cookie app on your phone, she said.

Ive got boxes and boxes at home to sell, said Girl Scout mother Suzan Marie. I never knew how crazy people are about these cookies.

Lindenwold Girl Scout Bryana Turner has been selling Girl Scout cookies for 10 years. Now she has her photo on the Shortbreads package. Cherry Hill Courier-Post

What cookies appeal most to Brevardians? If the 19,700-plus members of 321 Flavor are representative, Thin Mints are No. 1 by a large margin.

I cant bring them into the house, Linda Pincheck said.

OMG, I pig out on those Thin Mints, Dolores McGlone Ryan wrote. Love them!

Second most favored are Peanut Butter Patties, otherwise known as Tagalongs: vanilla cookies topped with peanut butter and coated with chocolate.

Oh, the ones with the peanut butter! Lauris Cady wrote.

Peanut Butter Patties, chilled in the refrigerator and accompanied with a glass of Guinness Stout. Really. Try it, longtime radio man and member Gregg Wiggins added.

Third on the list, and not by much, are Caramel DeLites, the treats otherwise known as Samoas: cookie rings topped with caramel, coconut and stripes of fudge.

Samoa is the queen of all cookies, Robyn Green wrote.

Caramel DeLites, Joan Cerow Berrios said. Ive got mine stashed.

In fourth place among Brevardians are Lemonades, lemon-iced shortbread cookies, and Chris Romandetti is adamant about their goodness.

Lemonades: They are really underrated, he wrote. I mean Thin Mints and Samoas are good, but they are way overhyped, in my opinion.

Lemonades! added Elizabeth Weber Hermann. Can't buy them because they disappear before I can get out of the car.

Fifth are Thanks-A-Lots, shortbread cookies spread with fudge that bear the message Thank You in one of five languages. Rumor is, this will be the last year for the popular cookies

(We like) Thanks-A-Lot, but I was told by my dealer they didn't have them this year. Is everyone out? Kate Bell asked.

Incorrect, replied Kurt NgSaye. They do have them this year. I have some if you need them.

Brian Bomser is among the many who see Girl Scout cookies as keys to good recipes

Roast a marshmallow in the firepit you hastily put together last night cause it's cold, then put said roasted mallow between two Thin Mints. Enjoy one of the best s'mores you'll ever have, he wrote. Don't have Thin Mints? Substitute whatever non-sandwich Girl Scout cookies you have on hand. Samoas (aka Caramel DeLites) and Thanks-A-Lots also work quite well.

According to the Girl Scouts, Each Girl Scout council chooses a licensed baker, either ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers. A cookie may be called Trefoils when baked by one baker and Shortbread when baked by the other. The two cookies look and taste similar, but the name of the cookie and the recipe may be different. The exceptions are Thin Mints and Girl Scout Smores, which are names used by both bakers. Even if Girl Scout Cookie names are the same, the recipes may differ.

Regardless, they are beloved.

Would it be politically incorrect to say that none is my favorite? asked non-cookie-lover Glenna Smittle Thomas. But I will buy some anyway.

Do you want to know where you can get Girl Scout cookies? Get in the conversation. Go to facebook.com/groups/321FlavorWhereBrevardEats.

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