COOKIE TIME: Girl Scouts start selling outside West Seattle businesses Friday

Girl Scout Cookie fans, tomorrow (Friday, March 1) is the day – local scouts open “cookie booths” outside local businesses. According to the cookie finder on the Girl Scouts’ website, 12 West Seattle businesses host Scout troops’ cookie booths tomorrow afternoon and/or evening. But before we get to that list, the list of cookies (updated per commenters) is here – 9 flavors this year, including one that is gluten-free (Toffee-tastic), and one that is vegan (Thin Mints); halal and kosher info is here.

Now – here’s where you’ll find our area’s first round of cookie booths tomorrow, according to the Girl Scouts’ website:

Roxbury Safeway 2 pm-8 pm
Junction True Value 3 pm-5 pm
Husky Deli 3 pm-7 pm
Marination Ma Kai 4 pm-6 pm
Menchie’s 4 pm-6 pm
West Seattle Thriftway (WSB sponsor) 4 pm-8 pm
Easy Street Records 4 pm-8 pm
Trader Joe’s 4 pm-8 pm
Junction QFC 4 pm-8 pm
Westwood QFC 4 pm-8 pm
Admiral Safeway 4-8 pm
Junction Safeway 4-8 pm

If you can’t cookie-shop until the weekend, you’ll find additional locations and different hours Saturday and beyond. Cookie-booth season continues through Sunday, March 17; you can also buy online – if you search for cookie sales in your area, the search results will match you with a local troop from which you can buy online, as well as the nearest booths’ locations and times.

David February 29, 2024 (9:10 pm)

Thanks for the warning LOL 🤣🤣

John Brunelle February 29, 2024 (9:10 pm)

In all honesty … why not set up outside the cannabis stores? I’ll bet that sales wood be good!

WSB February 29, 2024 (9:14 pm)

According to multiple news stories, they’re not allowed to.
Josh March 1, 2024 (2:09 pm)

Troops can only set up booths at pre approved locations and times established by the Girl Scout Leadership council. The council does not permit or allow booths outside of cannabis shops probably for pearl clutch related reasons but you would have to ask the council to be sure.

Gs mom February 29, 2024 (9:16 pm)

Your 12 count variety is incorrect. Some of those listed are gs cookies sold in other regions- we do not have the caramel chocolate chips or toast-yays for example. Those varieties are ABC Bakers. Little Brownie Baker is who supplies our region.

WSB February 29, 2024 (9:23 pm)

Thanks, just quoting the website as we haven’t received announcements or other localized info from anyone this year and just happened to check the website and noticed that cookie booths start tomorrow, so we thought we’d mention it.

AmyC February 29, 2024 (9:27 pm)

Hi Tracy – here is the link to the varieties the bakery for this area has (only 9): https://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/index.php/cookies

Cookie mom February 29, 2024 (9:28 pm)

Thanks for announcing the cookie sales, WSB! Please note that our area has 9 of the 12 varieties listed on the link. We Do Not have Caramel Chocolate Chip, Lemonades, or Toast-yays.

WSB February 29, 2024 (9:41 pm)

Thanks all for the info. As far as I can see clicking through to each of those nine varieties, only one (Thin Mints) is listed as vegan, and none as kosher/halal, unlike the page I originally quoted because it’s where the “cookie flavors” page defaulted – if anyone has additional info, or at least a link to further details, please let us know!

Not As We Do February 29, 2024 (10:50 pm)

Vegan?! Harrumph. Further details: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/girl-scout-makes-headlines-opposing-103038329.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADRk8uDkjjaY0mNWJPXQ44RUwYFRTuhrVli0p1ZbWhg36krOCJy_l2gmXSKT1QVo1hBisEHS-h2OnHeM-pZpfLPCXXJBomnYfbX5VYbDIOA84RXXmS2L9bDHoJhDIHU_Q5dfYY-J8FC7Up-fEiw28ljCARLxIGfa79KPuq3VB9lV  (Also, ‘Gs mom’ sez sorry and thanx.)
- WSB March 1, 2024 (10:23 am)
  
  The palm-oil controversy has been going on for years.
  Here’s how the baker in this region addresses it as well as other questions:
  https://www.littlebrowniebakers.com/pages/faq
  There’s also a “how to answer that question” section here
  https://www.girlscoutsww.org/content/dam/girlscoutsww-redesign/documents/activities/cookies/cookie-seller-faq.pdf
  And that in turn points here
  https://www.girlscoutsww.org/content/dam/girlscoutsww-redesign/documents/activities/cookies/sustainable-palm-oil-toolkit.pdf
  Much to digest, so to speak.
  - Do As We Say March 1, 2024 (1:03 pm)
    
    No, you’re right, I know. That the controversy has been going on for years (2011 Google results, at a glance) is the saddest most defeating part–defeating to the bright-eyed optimist-idealism of youth, as little girls fight in vain for decades to change one speck of the organization they’re proud to be part of, one unyielding speck that values cheap extreme shelf-stability (how long do GSCs survive in your house?) over the costs of one of the most damaging crops on the planet. And it’s only a grumpy old chump who’d give up Thin Mints and raise (yet again) the inconvenient matter, as we we all practice and teach which values we might identify with (vegan, yadda yadda) and which we pretend away. GSA and its industry suppliers ‘address’ this issue much like Exxon has for years addressed oil… way too much to digest, frankly… and by the time we sort the ‘mixed’ fully from the ‘certified’, I’m just glad I won’t have a little budding vet or biologist to convince that everything’s gonna be okay. “Q. Are GSUSA’s licensed bakers removing Palm Oil from Girl Scout Cookies?We are pleased to share that Girl Scout Cookies baked by both Little Brownie Bakersand ABC Bakers use Mass Balance RSPO certified palm oil and include the RSPOMass Balance logo on their packaging (i.e. RSPO “Mixed” certification label). Bothbakers’ future goal is to achieve 100% RSPO-segregated certified palm oil products forall Girl Scout Cookies they produce. They continue to work with their suppliers toexplore strategies and timeline to achieve this goal.” Hey, take yer time, kids! it’s only glaciers burning. Flat indoctrination in The American Way.
    - Touch grass March 3, 2024 (10:34 pm)
      
      Dear Do As We Say:Might I suggest logging off and maybe getting some fresh air.
AmyC February 29, 2024 (10:57 pm)

Here is the nutrition info from LBB: https://ferrero-lampd9-qa-static.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/littlebrowniebakers-com/s3fs-public/2023-05/2024_Cookie%20Flyer_9%20SKUs_V1.pdf

and the allergen info: https://ferrero-lampd9-qa-static.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/littlebrowniebakers-com/s3fs-public/2023-05/5103_LBB_Ingredient_Allergen_Flyer_2024_V7.pdfthanks! :)

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