It’s almost Girl Scout cookie season. Beginning Feb. 17 through March 12, you’re likely to find girls selling the sweet treats from booths set up outside your neighborhood grocery store to raise money for troop programs and special projects.
In Oregon and Southwest Washington, the Girl Scouts will be selling eight different varieties of cookies this year, including several old favorites along with gluten-free Toffee-tastic cookies.
But which cookies are the most-popular here? In Oregon, chances are good that when you plunk down money for a box, you’re choosing Thin Mints. In an online poll by Influenster, the chocolate-covered crunchers are the most-popular Girl Scout cookie across most of the country, including in Oregon and bordering states California, Nevada and Idaho. So much for Oregon blazing its own trail.
In Washington, the coconut-caramel cookie Samoas are the most-popular choice, a love shared by several states in the South and the Midwest. Peanut Butter Patties are the top pick in a few southern states. And Wyoming and Vermont go their own way with Do-Si-Dos, the peanut butter sandwich cookie.
Girl Scout cookies are delicious on their own, of course. But this is Oregon, so we wondered what it would be like to pair them with wine. We asked Hip Chicks do Wine co-owner Laurie Lewis to match wine to five different types of cookies. (Samoas go well with Tempranillo … who knew?)
So if you want a 21-and-over way to enjoy Girl Scout cookies, you’re in luck. Of course, crunch responsibly.
— Grant Butler
gbutler@oregonian.com
503-221-8566; @grantbutler
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