Girl Scout Cookie season ends soon
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — Girl Scout Cookie season is here, but it won’t be for long.
Girl Scout Cookies / MGN
The 2024 cookie season generally lasts from January through April. Locally, Girl Scouts will be selling in-person through March 17.
Cookie lovers can order a box online through the Girl Scouts’ website. The traditional method still works, too. Find a Girl Scout Cookie booth here by entering your zip code under “Find Cookies!”
To celebrate the season, News 12 had a cookie eating contest Friday morning.
We’re also looking to find out what the most popular cookie is. You can provide your input here.
The Girl Scouts list their best-selling cookies as:
- Thin Mints
- Caramel deLites/Samoas
- Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs
- Adventurefuls
- Peanut Butter Sandwich /Do-si-dos
The Girl Scouts even offer a “Toffee-tastic” cookie that is gluten free.
Cookie selling is an annual tradition going on more than 100 years. The Girl Scouts began in 1912 in Savannah, Georgia.
Girl Scouts explain the cookie beginnings:
“In July 1922, The American Girl magazine, published by Girl Scouts of the USA, featured an article by Florence E. Neil, a local director in Chicago, Illinois, including a cookie recipe that had been given to the council’s 2,000 Girl Scouts. She estimated the approximate cost of ingredients for six to seven dozen cookies to be 26 to 36 cents. The cookies, she suggested, could be sold by troops for 25 or 30 cents per dozen.”
A Girl Scout sells cookies door-to-door, 1928. / GIRL SCOUTS
The group says the Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world. The program is meant to teach girls life and leadership skills.
