Girl Scout

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You know the cookie. Now try the drink.

The Girl Scout is a heated-up chocolate mint. There is something about that combination that gives you the warm fuzzy feeling. Call it a holiday thing. Or call it the end of an Olive Garden feast.

Do not tell me you did not fight over those mints. They are Andes. Not the ones from the store, either. Olive Garden has their own, still stamped Andes, one layer of chocolate over the mint, wrapped in the restaurant logo. You cannot buy them. You can only lose the argument about who gets the last one.

Be sure to support the Girl Scouts. We sure do. Buy the box. Then come here and drink it like you have no plans for the rest of the day.

Hot or iced. Kid friendly. Dairy-free if you need it. Almond milk or oat milk. The powder is lactose-free.

Geeky Fact

Thin Mints are the number one Girl Scout cookie in the country. In 2024 they were about 36 percent of every box sold. More than one in three. Samoas, or Caramel deLites if your baker calls them that, come in second. Massachusetts picks the coconut one. We are not here to fight your state. We are here to drink the mint.

The cookie started as Chocolate Mints. By 1951, Girl Scout Cookies came in three kinds: Sandwich, Shortbread, and Chocolate Mints. The mint one is the one that never left.

Cookie sales go back to 1917. The Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma baked them and sold them in a high school cafeteria. Juliette Gordon Low had started the Girl Scouts five years earlier, in Savannah. The girls have been funding the whole thing with cookies ever since. Buy the box.

Andes Crème de Menthe

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