Local Girl Scouts are dropping a cookie flavor next year. Is it one of your favorites?
The Central Kentucky Girl Scouts are shaking up their cookie lineup and one popular cookie is leaving for good.
Thanks-A-Lots, a shortbread cookie with fudge on the back, will be sold in this year for the last season, according to the Scout cookie guide.
The cookie has been sold for 15 years so fans have one last chance to stock up before they disappear.
“The time has come to say goodbye and welcome a new cookie in 2021,” according to the guide.
A new cookie is expected to be announced this fall, according to Haleigh McGraw, communications director for the Girl Scouts of Kentucky Wilderness Road Council.
The council, which includes Lexington’s Girl Scout troops, uses ABC Bakers in Virginia, which produces different cookies.
Some troops, which use a different bakery, this year introduced a new cookie: Lemon-Ups replaced a different lemon cookie known as Savannah Smiles.
But in the eastern half of Kentucky, the troops still sell Lemonades, a shortbread with lemon icing on the back, similar to the Thanks-A-Lot. There are no plans to switch to Lemon-Ups, McGraw said.
Locally, that’s created a “bit of a black market,” she said, with troops in other councils buying the different kinds from Wilderness Road troops.
Some Girl Scout troops are making other big changes to their cookie program, including a shorter selling season, from Feb. 1 to March 22.
But in Central, Northern and Eastern Kentucky, most troops began taking orders at the first of the year. The cookies will arrive at the end of January and be delivered immediately, McGraw said.
Cookie booths sales will begin on Feb. 1. The cookies from the Wilderness Road Council are $4 a box.
So you can stockpile Thanks-A-Lots in your freezer, maybe.
Girl Scouts began selling cookies nationally in 1930 as a way to support projects and other activities. Nationally, the scouts sell more than $800 million in cookies, according to the organization.
This story was originally published January 8, 2020 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Local Girl Scouts are dropping a cookie flavor next year. Is it one of your favorites?."
