If you can’t trust the Girl Scouts of America, who can you trust? Reports are coming in that the lemon cookies baked in Louisville Kentucky by Little Brownie Bakers stink and taste funny. The baker reports that the cookies while unpalatable, are safe. From their website:
Statement re: Lemon Chalet Crèmes™ Cookies
Little Brownie Bakers recently received a few contacts from consumers informing us of an off taste and smell from certain packages of Lemon Chalet Crème cookies. We immediately took the precautionary step of testing product samples. We determined that while the cookies are safe for consumers to eat, they are not up to our quality standards.
Cookie Ingredient Sourcing FAQ
Little Brownie Bakers understands your concerns over food safety. For answers to your questions regarding the ingredient sourcing of Girl Scouts® Cookies
Committed To Safety
At Little Brownie Bakers, we want to assure you that we share your serious concern for the safety of girls and their families. That’s why we put every promotion, premium and recognition item through rigorous safety testing before it is approved for delivery.
I have some of these cookies out in the car. Yup, Lemon Chalet Creme. I think I will just walk them right on to the garbage. How do these bakeries get the bid from the Girl Scouts? Could we count on this bakery losing its bid? This kind of news just brings out a big collective EWWWWWW. Thank goodness it wasn’t the thin mints. Now THAT would be a life-altering experience.
The Baltimore Sun advises us to “pay no attention to the stink of those Girl Scout cookies” and:
The recall does not affect any other variety of Girl Scout cookie. So your partially hydrogenated Thin Mints are as good for you as ever.
Which must be great, since the Girl Scouts of the USA says right on its Web sit that it’s “proud that all Girl Scout cookies are ‘zero trans fat per serving.'”Ah, the old per-serving dodge. A serving of Thin Mints? Four cookies. Those Do-Si-Dos or Tagalongs? Two. Two measly cookies! Not the whole sleeve. Eat that, and you’ll have enough trans fats for a lifetime.
Do things without trans fat even taste good? How does one ‘recall’ cookies that aren’t bought in a store? Who does one return the cookies to? Do you have to track down the girl scout who sold them to you? This looks like I am going to have to take a hit on these bad girls!
Just what the Girl Scouts of America needs! As I recall (not so fondly), nothing brings out the BEAST in mothers, daughters and scout leaders like Girl Scout cookie month when all is going well. A few hundred returned boxes of Lemon Chalet Creme stink cookies out to push things right over the edge.
The only ones I like are the mint cookies. Someone at work always comes around and I end up buying a box or two of those. I’m not a fan of anything lemon so I wouldn’t be buying those anyway. But not good that something isn’t right with them – the girl scouts don’t need people getting sick on their cookies!
It’s hard enough being a Girl Scout these days. The uniforms aren’t considered cool among peers, and if memory serves me, each troop only gets 50 cents a box. I don’t think that would get your troop into Kings Dominion these days. But now, being accused of selling stinky cookies….
If you’d like accurate information and an alternative way to help local troops, please consider contacting the field office for Prince William Girl Scouts’ Association 80, which has 11 service units and countless troops throughout the area. The Web site is http://www.gscnc.org/a80.html. The field directors are Sasha Lord and Runia Brokamp. They’d be glad to help you. The field office is located at 8421 Dorsey Circle, Suite 101 in Manassas (across Sudley Road from the main entrance to Prince William Hospital. The phone number is 703-365-9600. Please, please, PLEASE don’t take it out on girls or their leaders!
From the bakery Web site:
Certain lots of Lemon Chalet Crème cookies contain oils that may be breaking down which can result in an off taste and smell. We are asking that the councils that received these batches return any product inventory in their control to us. The affected Lemon Chalet Crème cookie batches have the following lot codes:
7455881 7455882 7455883
7456741 7456742 7456743
7457661 7457662 7457663
7458521 7458522 7458523
7459401 7459402 7459403
All of the Girl Scout Councils that received these lot codes will be notified directly. We will provide replacement product for councils and consumers. No other Girl Scout cookies are involved.
In the event that consumers experience an off taste and smell in this product, they should call 1-800-962-1718 or contact us at http://www.littlebrowniebakers.com.
The quality of our products is a top priority for Little Brownie Bakers. We sincerely apologize to any consumers affected and are committed to working with the impacted Girl Scout councils through this issue.
“Do things without trans fat even taste good?”
Absolutely. Use real butter and bake your own cookies. I am of the belief that artificial fats and sweeteners only aggravate cravings, stomach problems and allergies. Eating smaller amounts of “the real thing” is safer and much more satisfying. You will not find margarine in my fridge.
Consider donating to Girl Scouts next time the United Way or Combined Federal Campaign rolls around, or give them a donation without taking cookies. Or enjoy a thin mint or two once in awhile–moderation is good. Or donate your (untainted) GS cookies to the troops overseas–many GS troops here are involved in that effort. Not that they need trans fats any more than we do, but they love and appreciate getting them.
I agree with Cindy that the girls should not have to suffer because of a company that has made-in-China quality standards.
I have three friends with daughters that are girl scouts. The troops are in PWC, City of Manassas and Fauquier Co.. This year I bought from the Fauquier girl scout. They used an email form to order your cookies. I thought this was reallly cool. I got my email and didn’t order that day. A couple of days later I got a reminder about ordering my cookies. I think this makes cookies really easy for girl scouts. Sorry, but I don’t think it’s too tough for them selling cookies these days. I miss the days of girls coming to your door selling cookies. Now, I buy cookies from girl scouts’ parents. Who’s really doing the selling? I also, have friends with boy scouts and popcorn is one of their big fundraisers. Those parents were posting the sale notices on their FB pages. The boy scouts in WestGate still ring the door bell selling mulch. They should be making their rounds any weekend now.
I haven’t seen a girl scout in years. I bought mine from a girl scout’s grandmother who was out hawking cookies through email to me.
lafayette, make sure you send the boy scouts to my house when you see them. I need something for my driveway to piss off neighborhood watch. They do not like mulch in driveways in my neighorhood.
I do hope everyone understand that the article was light-hearted and not meant to gouge girl scouts. Crap happens. The lemon cookies weren’t good in the first place.
Or ….if you get nasty cookies throw them in the garbage. I was seriously kidding about hunting down the original scout. I can’t imagine being cheap enough to ask for my money back.
Moon, will do!
My Samoas were excellent as always. They also sell them outside of Giant on the weekends now.
he recall does not affect any other variety of Girl Scout cookie. So your partially hydrogenated Thin Mints are as good for you as ever. Whew… America is a safe place because the Thin Mints are ok. They’ve always been my favorite!
As long as thin mints are ok….agreed there.
Yeah, the thin mints are the ones I like. I never buy any of the other ones.
Shame on you, Moon, you naughty person you! Get that mulch out of your driveway this minute!!
Wolverine, serious…I got reported for 1 mulch bag in my yard, up at the top of the driveway. I do not have an HOA. Life is tough for some of the neighbors with a cause, I guess. Outside storage violation. I call it wasting county resources.
That’s pretty stupid for someone to call the county about a bag of mulch in the driveway. If that was the only thing my neighbors in the flophouse (in the Manassas city) did, I wouldn’t care! I wish that was the biggest problem they caused!
There’s no excuse for tying up county resources by reporting something as silly as that. Who doesn’t take something like that out of their car and put it in the driveway temporarily untlil they get to use it. It’s not like dumping trash, which is what my neighbors were doing 7 days a week. They were so lazy they often didn’t tie shut the trash bags! Now that is the kind of thing that should be reported to the county (if they had been in the county and not the city).
A bag of mulch is an “outside storage violation”? You’ve got some mighty strange rules in PWC. Even my HOA doesn’t go that far. The front yard is usually where the HOA leaves the stuff if you have asked for some extra.
The county didn’t think so either but the person reporting the violations had issues. Apparently he did a Rimplestiltskin number when he heard my case was unfounded. He apparently was confused about what is volunteer job was. I have no idea who he is. I just know what he is. (if that makes sense)
Weird how one person can misunderstand the big picture so much.