Comparing cookies to popcorn? Well, if you’re familiar with Trails End Popcorn you’ll understand the basis for the comparison. Trails End Popcorn is sold by the Boy Scouts to make money to fund their activities, while the Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout Cookies. If you have both boys and girls who are scouts, you’re probably already committed to buy four score and twenty years worth of both, so they can lay claim to glamorous prizes. You know the radio that squawks static, the pewter figurine that’s either a dog or a rabbit and no one can agree which, or the ever necessary carabiner that every kid covets. You couldn’t get your kids to buy this stuff with their allowances, but tell them they’re free prizes and those same kids will trudge through three counties in sleet and hail to sell enough cookies or popcorn to earn them. As their lucky parent, you get to trudge alongside them. Someone has to pull the wagon and keep track of the pens and the money envelope, after all.
The Boy Scouts sell several flavors of Trails End popcorn. Of course there are the microwave butter and no butter varieties, but typically there’s also chocolate, cheddar, kettle corn and caramel corn. The exact varieties offered vary among Boy Scout councils. The popcorn comes in boxes of one variety or in mixed up lots for the indecisive. Whatever excuse you have for not buying popcorn, believe me, the Boy Scouts and Trails End have teamed up to defeat that excuse before you utter it.
“I don’t have a microwave.”
Nice try, but the Boy Scouts sell ready made Trails End popcorn in tins as well as bags for the microwave.
“I don’t have any teeth”
That’s okay, the Trails End tinned popcorn makes a perfect gift for your friends who do!
So resign yourself. You’re doing a good deed for the Boy Scouts when you buy this stuff. But, you’re also doing a good deed for yourself. The popcorn tastes good, okay? It’s fresh; it has crunch. The microwave variety fully pops- it’s not one of those cheap brands that leaves you with a half bag of unpopped seeds. You might get popcorn cheaper at the grocery store but you wouldn’t be supporting the Boy Scouts, then, would you? When buying Trails End popcorn, consider buying the larger boxes because it only comes around once a year; when you run out, it’ll be a long time til you get to buy more.
Which flavor to buy depends entirely upon your taste and whether you like sugary popcorn- like Kettle Corn and caramel corn- or traditional salty popcorn.
Now how does Trail’s End popcorn compare to Girl Scout cookies? For starters, they both help good causes, teaching kids sales skills while funding troop and council activities.
Girl Scouts love secrets so here’s an insider secret about Girl Scout cookies. There are four different companies baking these cookies nationwide, so your samoas might be baked by a different company than your cousin Alma’s.
Girl Scouts have been selling some of their best selling cookies for decades, while a few flit on and off the sales list each year. The ones you can pretty much count on are the chocolate covered Thin Mints, the carmel and coconut adorned Samoa, the shortbread Trefoil, and the peanut butter duo- Dosidos sandwich cookie and Tagalongs chocolate covered, peanut butter filled cookie.
There are excellent reasons to buy Girl Scout Cookies. These include avoiding the shame you will feel if you disappoint a doe-eyed seven year old in a beanie and vest. Another reason is that buying GIrl Scout Cookies affords you an excuse to eat Girl Scout Cookies. What diet could be more important than supporting the community building of your local Girl Scouts? Like the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts have worked hard to ensure that nothing will stand between you and their cookies. They sell varieties responsive to your every need- so whether you’re a diabetic, a peanut allergy sufferer or a vocal opponent of trans fats, rest assured, the Girl Scouts have just the cookie that won’t offend your sensibilities or threaten your health.
Now, as to the question of which product is better? That depends entirely upon whether you’re a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout. If you’re neither, the rational answer is these products are complementary. Everyone needs popcorn and cookies. So buy both, keep everyone happy, and know you’ve done your good deed for the year. The pantry brimming with Trails End popcorn and Girl Scout Cookies is your just reward.
