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Yes, but if they could do this, it would make more sense to just buy a girl scout and have all the cookies you want rather than the cookies.

The local troop might not have the same quality control. If someone gets sick, the entire organization gets sued, not just the local troop.

The local troop can bake all the cookies they want and sell them--they just can't call them Girl Scout cookies.

I don't buy junk food but for $1.49

http://www.aldireviewer.com/2016/09/01/girl-scout-cookies-aldi-style/

joeyjojojunior says

The local troop might not have the same quality control. If someone gets sick, the entire organization gets sued, not just the local troop.

The local troop can bake all the cookies they want and sell them--they just can't call them Girl Scout cookies.

C'mon, have you ever gotten sick from a cookie?

It's just wrong that girl scouts cannot use a generic term such as "Girl Scouts" on their own. Sure, it's trademarked, but for whose benefit?

Do they really need a head administrator making nearly $400K on the backs of little girls?

http://nypost.com/2013/06/09/shes-milking-the-scouts/

A better solution would be to ban cookies. They're terrible for you and cause great strain on our healthcare costs

You do realize this is the premise of the terrible movie, "The Boss," right?

Patrick says

All girl scouts should be free to bake cookies at home, sell them as girl scouts, and keep all of the proceeds for their local troop alone.

I bet you'd get a lot more variety, and local recipes. Us California health nuts like our organic, vegan sugar snacks.

"C'mon, have you ever gotten sick from a cookie?"

No, but there are a lot of things that haven't happened to me but do happen, albeit very rarely.

"It's just wrong that girl scouts cannot use a generic term such as "Girl Scouts" on their own. Sure, it's trademarked, but for whose benefit? Do they really need a head administrator making nearly $400K on the backs of little girls?"

The problem of the administrator making $400K on the backs of little girls is really no different than the CEO making $200MM on the backs of slave labor in China or small town USA. Let's fix that problem.

@joeyjojojunior you can format quotes more nicely by using the comment's "quote" link, or by manually asking for blockquotes with this tag:

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Or you can try putting two sets of double quotes at the beginning and at the end of the text, but that's a little buggy still.

Yes, the comments quote link doesn't work on this browser. I could do the blockquotes I suppose.

They'd be forced to buy GS-approved ammo, at a huge markup.

Patrick says

bake its own cookies and keep all of the proceeds locally

Do you have ANY idea how strict food handling laws are? Commercial kitchens are regulated down to the color of the paint on the walls. The chain of supply handling is detailed every step of the way. Honestly, some of the troop mothers I've seen peddling factory-bakery made GSCs (seated on their 400# ass at a card table in front of the bank or grocery), I wouldn't trust a glass of water from their kitchen!

would be sued for trademark violation by the Girl Scouts organization

Of course they would, same as if they started calling their product Keebler or Famous Amos. Are we going to give Girl Scouts a pussy pass on this?

I wonder if the scouts have copyrighted crackers...

Patrick says

Allow girl scouts to bake their own cookies at home

joeyjojojunior says

the comments quote link doesn't work on this browser

Which browser? I'll try to fix it.

dont buy the cookies..just give them $10 for their troop...problem solved

I want good home-baked cookies though.

And Girl Scouts should teach girls how to bake cookies so they start to get used to cooking for men! Couldn't resist saying that.

Patrick says

Any local girl scout troop which attempted to bake its own cookies and keep all of the proceeds locally would be sued for trademark violation by the Girl Scouts organization and shut down by health officials, who do not even trust girl scouts to bake cookies.

No they wouldn't. A troop could make their own cookies and just say that they are selling their own cookies for their own troop, and not call them "girl scout cookies" - just call them Troop X cookies.

Who would REALLY shut them down is the government.

Automan Empire says

Do you have ANY idea how strict food handling laws are? Commercial kitchens are regulated down to the color of the paint on the walls. The chain of supply handling is detailed every step of the way. Honestly, some of the troop mothers I've seen peddling factory-bakery made GSCs (seated on their 400# ass at a card table in front of the bank or grocery), I wouldn't trust a glass of water from their kitchen!

Look, 90 years ago, people started bakeries out of their kitchen.

You fuck up and get somebody sick, that's the end of your business.

I don't agree with the regulations.

I had an idea similar to Uber - allow people to cook and sell their dishes on a something like a meal plan for people. Instead of having somebody make food for 3, have them make food for 30. Deliver to 9 other families. Scaling up the amount you cook is pretty easy. People would be stuck getting what is made, but they can always opt out.

But I know the government would shut them down. It would be popular for older people and students.

Oh and speaking about cooking - I just found an excellent site for cooking Indian food:

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/

So if you ever wanted to try that, they are surprisingly simple. Some ingredients might be hard to obtain.

richwicks says

No they wouldn't. A troop could make their own cookies and just say that they are selling their own cookies for their own troop, and not call them "girl scout cookies" - just call them Troop X cookies.

Who would REALLY shut them down is the government.

You under estimate the tenacity of IP Lawyers.

richwicks says

I had an idea similar to Uber - allow people to cook and sell their dishes on a something like a meal plan for people. Instead of having somebody make food for 3, have them make food for 30. Deliver to 9 other families. Scaling up the amount you cook is pretty easy. People would be stuck getting what is made, but they can always opt out.

But I know the government would shut them down. It would be popular for older people and students.

For years in South Florida from time to time I see a Cuban family that pays a home cook to prepare Cuban dishes and deliver them nightly. I'm not talking about a Catering company here. They deliver the dishes in those Foil pans with the press down edges and the cardboard top. They get away with that, and bodegas in downtown Miami, where as regular Americans would get shut down, if a black family delivered Soul Food, or a White guy delivered BBQ and Americana fare.

And Peruvians make a ton of Tamales when they make them, and sell the extra off to friends and family.