Thaindian News

Feb 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Girl Scouts want their cookies back! No, not seriously, although they have announced a recall on their Lemon Chalete Cremes. According to reports by The Better Business Bureau, these particular cookies have been recalled due to the fact that they had “an off smell, and taste.” The cookies are reportedly safe to eat, according to the girl scout cookie makers, Little Brownies Baker, but were recalled due to the fact that they were simply not up to their high standards.

Little Brownies Bakers, based in Louisville, KY, has been making Girl Scout Cookies for years. Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low started the Girl Scout Organization on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, GA, when she gathered 18 girls together for the first ever “Girl Scout meeting.” She felt that all girls should be given the chance to develop mentally, physically, and spiritually outside of the home environment and into community service and fresh air. These girls went on hikes, played ball, had camping trips, learned first aid, and much more. Today the Girl Scouts are 3.4 million strong and growing.

Girl Scout Cookies began in the ovens of girl scout members and their mothers, in 1917, five years after “Daisy” began the organization. The first Girl Scout Cookies Sale was believed to have been held in the Muskogee, OK high school cafeteria, and featured cookies made by the Mistletoe Troop in Musckogee. In a July 1922 “American Girl” magazine, Florence E. Neil published an article which provided a cookie recipe which was then passed on to 2000 Girl Scouts. These girls were told to make the cookies and sell them for 25 to 30 cents a dozen. At that time it cost 26 to 36 cents to make 6 or 7 dozen. The cookies were baked at home, wrapped in wax paper and sealed with a sticker, then sold door to door for about a quarter a dozen.