- Girl Scout Cookies were originally baked at home by troop members.
- The first Girl Scout cookie sale that we know of took place in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in a high school cafeteria in 1917.
- The cookies first started being commercially baked in 1934; the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia were the first to sell cookies that were not home made.
- During WWII when there were shortages of sugar, butter and flour in the U.S., the Girl Scouts sold calendars instead.
- Girl Scout cookies are kosher.
- Only two bakers in America are licensed to make the cookies: ABC/Interbake Foods and Little Brownie Bakes.
- Thin Mints are the current best sellers, at 25 % of all sales. Samoas trail behind at 19 %, Tagalongs come in at 13%, Do-si-dos at 11% and Trefoils at 9%. The other 23% is made up of all of the other varieties.
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