Girl Scouts add new lemony cookie this year
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Girl Scouts are offering up a new, lemony cookie this year called "Savannah Smiles" in honor of the organization's 100th anniversary.
The description alone is quite a mouthful, referring to the new treats as "bite-sized, lemon-wedge cookies dusted in powdered sugar and bursting with zesty lemon flavor."
A reader notes, correctly, that the new "Savannah Smiles" cookie is not available in every region, but can be tracked down with the Cookie Locator.
FIND: Girl Scout cookies.
The name also honors Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, of Savannah, Ga., who started the organization in 1912.
But the new name is not without a dusting of irony this year.
In 2011, as the cookie-selling season kicked off, the city of Savannah barred the Girl Scouts from selling their sugary wares in front of Low's childhood home, the Savannah Morning News reported at the time.
The city's zoning administrator, responding to a complaint, ruled that the girls were violating a city ordinance by setting up a table on the public sidewalk.
When he suggested they sell from the courtyard on the side of the property, Scout leaders told him the fire marshall wouldn't permit it because it blocked an exit route from the house.
Sweet.
The description alone is quite a mouthful, referring to the new treats as "bite-sized, lemon-wedge cookies dusted in powdered sugar and bursting with zesty lemon flavor."
A reader notes, correctly, that the new "Savannah Smiles" cookie is not available in every region, but can be tracked down with the Cookie Locator.
FIND: Girl Scout cookies.
The name also honors Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, of Savannah, Ga., who started the organization in 1912.
But the new name is not without a dusting of irony this year.
In 2011, as the cookie-selling season kicked off, the city of Savannah barred the Girl Scouts from selling their sugary wares in front of Low's childhood home, the Savannah Morning News reported at the time.
The city's zoning administrator, responding to a complaint, ruled that the girls were violating a city ordinance by setting up a table on the public sidewalk.
When he suggested they sell from the courtyard on the side of the property, Scout leaders told him the fire marshall wouldn't permit it because it blocked an exit route from the house.
Sweet.
