Posted on 02/16/2013 6:32:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
There is certainly no ‘waste not, want not’ badge for Girl Scouts of America, at least not in Southern California where over 13,000 boxes of the organization’s famous cookies were bulldozed to bits in a warehouse as bulldozer operators gleefully yelled ‘Goodbye girl scout cookies!’
After the May incident, when the cookies were sent off to a landfill, leaders of area food banks are up in arms about the so-called service organization's wastefulness.
Bruce Rankin, Executive Director of Santa Monica’s West Side Food Bank, watched footage from CBS 2 in Los Angeles, and was shocked as two heavy-duty construction vehicles repeatedly trounce through huge mounds of bright purple cookie boxes
Rankin’s organization serves young children, the working poor, the disabled, and other needy groups in Sothern California. They’re supplied through food donations, but must purchase around half their food to meet demand.
‘We would gladly accept the cookies,’ Rankin said, still awed by the video he’d seen. ‘They would probably disappear as fast as any product we have here.’ The cookies, which were well within their expiration dates, were traced to the San Gorgonio Council of the Girl Scouts in Redlands, California.
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They're just following BHO's example in "Cash for 'Clunkers'".
Perfectly good automobiles deliberately removed from the lower end of the market...
Thus the girl cookie motto:
“A tasty treat isn’t all that’s involved with a box of our caramel and toasted coconut-covered cookies. Through interaction with each customer and other Girl Scouts, a girl learns the importance of keeping her word, doing the right thing, and being fair. A girl learns the business ethics that will serve her throughout life.”
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/meet_the_cookies.asp
If Bloomberg had done this state-controlled media would be cheering.
Where did I learn this tip on cookie economy?
My favorite thing is when they knock the price of high dollar aged cheeses down 75% just before they toss it out.
Its been aging for 2 years and they mark it down after a month because its about to expire LOL
*‘It’s a shame what happened in Riverside,’ said representative Michelle Tompkins, ‘but food is wasted all the time.’*
Oh, well, then.
Since their national organization supports lesbianism and abortion, lots'a RATs will want to support them! I don't buy their cookies, but I do make small cash donations to the moms at work and church who lead the local groups; they are not the problem.
I will go for grasshoppers when jonesing for chocolate, but they are not quite the same as GS cookies. I’d say they are like Puerto Rican rum, 180 proof, when you really need only 151 proof to shoot straight.
They do in a pinch, and like rum, they go straight into the freezer LOL
I hadn’t had a GS cookie for many years; but, a few years ago I had a chance to have a Trefoil (I am partial to shortbread type cookies). Well, it tasted nothing like the cookies I remember. In fact, rather than tasting buttery, they had a fake lemon kind of flavor to them. I no longer miss GS cookies. They have obviously been ruined by the food police.
Michelle personally ordered for the cookies to be destroyed.
Speaking as a father of three mostly grown girls and husband of a former GSA volunteer, I can tell you that the GSA is first and foremost about cookie sales and distribution. Actual scouting stuff is not a priority.
It is the lawyers’ fault.
Frivolous lawsuits leave corporations and organizations little choice.
If the food banks were to give out “expired” food the “oinvestigative reporters” of the local media would have it the lead at 6 and 11!!Then it would go national!!
More Americans than ever have college degrees,and more Americans than ever have any idea of the realities of food production,money,energy,or politics.
Much thinner mints.
Do-Si-Dozers.
Yes...the Keebler Grasshopper cookies taste just like GS thin mints. Walmart also has their own brand of chocolate mint cookies that taste just like thin mints.
How many funds were raised for dumping them?? If they`d sold them at $1 over cost they would be ahead. Their salespeople are unpaid children. No one can defend wasting food while charities need it. I daresay some of those girlscouts families would have appreciated unsold cookies as a “thank you”. I dont waste food or money. How long have they been doing this...wasting $$ paid for cookies by throwing them away?
If they cost $1 per box to make the GS just wasted $13000! Their profits must be so huge that 13grand is chump change. They should stop claiming to be a “service organization” dedicated to scouting and character building and just admit the GS`s are a cookie company with free child salespeople. At least Nabisco isn`t pretending to be a service organization while avoiding child labor laws.
“A tasty treat isn’t all that’s involved with a box of our caramel and toasted coconut-covered cookies. Through interaction with each customer and other Girl Scouts, a girl learns the importance of keeping her word, doing the right thing, and being fair. A girl learns the business ethics that will serve her throughout life.”
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/meet_the_cookies.asp
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