So it was announced (or at least I read about it) today that in order to combat the rising costs of goods, Girl Scout cookies will now come to us in smaller quantities. Just when we all came to terms with the fact we're paying $3.50 for 6 cookies, now we'll only get 4. At least, that's what it seems like...
My initial reaction was much like my reaction every time I go to the grocery store... "you have to be fucking kidding me." It's the same reaction I uttered the first time I opened a can of green beans and poured out a cup of water to be left with an ounce of grayish green deliciousness. Or when we opened a bag of Ruffles to discover instead of being half filled, it was only 1/3 filled. Screw you all. But it's how companies are winning the recession game - charge the same but give less product, under the thinly veiled illusion of status quo.
So now the Girl Scouts, with their knee-high socks and stupid sashes, are in on the game. It's not that I don't support the GS, I am a former member and think it's a great organization. I believe in the cause, and therefore I will buy the damn cookies.
What I find most hilarious about this whole thing is the replies that news sites are getting from readers. Sure, there are a few complaining that we're getting less for our money these days, and the effing cookies are already overpriced as is. But there are actually people out there using this as a platform for preaching healthier eating. They're chanting "Use this Opportunity to Treat Your Body like the Temple It Is!" A woman claims she can no longer eat packaged cookies because now that she eats only whole foods, her body cannot handle the processed pucks or any thing else the rest of us call "tasty". Someone else bitched that the Girl Scouts are actually part of a grand conspiracy to kill us gluttons with their hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup. Yes, that is their part of their new mission statement. Apparently, you missed the memo on that....
Give me a damn break. I eat healthy 90% of the time. I only have whole grain bread in the house, we eat whole wheat pasta from time to time, and we're big in vegetables and fruits. I do cringe when my husband eats a Twinkie because it just can't be good for you. But I'm not a nazi for pete's sake. Don't make the rest of us feel like freaks with nipples on our cheeks because we eat a cookie every once in a while. A little treat never killed anyone. Would you rather the Girl Scouts go door to door selling hummus? Yeah, remind me not to go to any of your parties, you wild child!!!
Get over it.
2 comments:
The Girl Scouts would go out of business if they sold hummus door-to-door. That would be child abuse, eh?
I am rolling on the floor... just rolling... selling hummus... would they provide pita chips too?
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