Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

(laugh) That was their catchy song ... they make nice
cookies. Small boxes, pricy. Good.

Is it a brand name, putting out several varieties of cookies, or are
Peek Freans a particular variety?

It is a brand name. They make a variety of biscuits like Digestive,
Shortbread, Tea biscuits, Nice. My favourites are the round ones with
currants in them. They also have layers biscuits, like Bourbon Cream
(chocolate) , cream filled, jam filled.

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"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
...
Thin mints.
--
Peace, Om.

You're kidding, right? All their cookies are awful. I just make a
contribution and tell them I can't eat cookies. This amazes them.



I'm not kidding... :-)
I LOVE the thin mints, the others are just ok. I never buy the others
but the girls bring them to work.

The thin mints have _years_ of good memories for me.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

It really sucks when conglomerates take over a smaller company, then
proceed to destry their products.

Yes indeed. We keep hearing all the right wing propaganda about competition and
choices in the market place, but then the biggest capitalists come along and buy
up all the competition and reduce their quality to appeal to the lowest common
denominator.

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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:04:21 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
wrote:

Thin mints.

You evil bitch! LOL!

Thank you! bows


I love the ones with caramel, coconut, and chocolate, all piled on top
of a cookie base. Second and third choices are Thin Mints and
Shortbread.

You evil, evil bitch!

Peace,
Carol, who is low-carbing for life

smiles It's ok, it's masochism at it's best.
I'm back to serious low carbing too, so GS cookies are out for the time
being.

So are Lindt's truffles.

sigh

I've switched back to small lettuce leaves in place of crackers for
snacking. Just had some boston butter lettuce leaves with a smidgin of
mayo, mozarella cheese and a pickle slice.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

On 28 Mar 2006 12:17:02 -0800, "Jude" wrote:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

I love the ones with caramel, coconut, and chocolate, all piled on top
of a cookie base.

They're called Samoas.

Yup, that's them. I haven't had any in over a decade. I'm not sure
if I'd like them now or not, but I don't intend to find out. G

Peace,
Carol

I've not tried them. :-)

On the upside Carol, it's not GS cookie season right now! G
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

"Default User" wrote

Oh! They still have lemon pastry cremes. Those were very good, but they
haven't been available here in Little Brownie territory in years.

Oddly enough, I once had Peek Frean's lemon creme cookies,
I loved them so much I always look for them when I see that
brand in the store. Never saw them again.

Just last week, I saw essensia brand ... it's sort of a store
brand? of lemon creme cookies. I can't stop eating them.
It's crazy. Got two more bags today.

Funny that Peek Frean's would come up now. I thought I
finally found a cookie like those PF's I got so many years ago.

nancy

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Marcella Peek wrote:

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notbob wrote:


I wish the Boy Scouts shilled something good to eat. When I was a
scout, we sold fireworks to raise money, but the safety police have
screwed that up. I just send them a check directly, thereby avoiding
all that PC bullshit from United Way.

nb

We enjoy their microwave popcorn. Good stuff, nearly all the kernels
pop and not too much fake butter flavor.

We eat too many boxes of the girlscout Samoas and Thin Mints to count.
I think there are about six boxes still in the freezer. Husband brought
home nuts and chocolate mint candies (rather like Frango mints) a few
months back.

marcella

Ooh, thin mints DO freeze well don't they? ;-)
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

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Dave Smith wrote:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

You evil bitch! LOL!

I love the ones with caramel, coconut, and chocolate, all piled on top
of a cookie base. Second and third choices are Thin Mints and
Shortbread.

Are there still choices? I used to like the Vanilla sandwich cookies when
they came in a box with half vanilla and half chocolate. I was never too
keen on the chocolate covered mint patties. There aren't any young girls
living around here and my wife is retired from teaching so we haven't felt
obligated to buy any for a few years. I can't say that I miss them.

For some reason I stopped baking cookies for a few years and decided to
just buy them once in a while. My favourites were Peek Freans, but they
were bought out by Kraft and the quality went downhill. They got
Kraftized. So I stopped buying them. I decided to make a batch of cookies
and immediately felt pretty silly for having been buying them when they
are so easy to make, and so much much better than any you can buy.




Well, there are always the evil evil Mallomars.......
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

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"Default User" wrote:

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

Thin mints.

The best. Try them frozen, even better.



Brian


Agreed!
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
...
Thin mints.

Peanut Butter Patties, Caramel deLites, and Thin Mints (in that order).

Mary--eating some PB Patties and Thin Mints as I type... (Hey, I AM eating
for three now

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"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"notbob" wrote in message
...
On 2006-03-28, Doug Kanter wrote:

You're kidding, right? All their cookies are awful.

Nonsense. I've been buying their shortbread cookies for decades.
Love 'em!

I just make a
contribution and tell them I can't eat cookies. This amazes them.

That's what I do for their candies. Does freak 'em out, don't it.

I wish the Boy Scouts shilled something good to eat. When I was a
scout, we sold fireworks to raise money, but the safety police have
screwed that up. I just send them a check directly, thereby avoiding
all that PC bullshit from United Way.

nb


My son and I had such hideous experiences with the Boy Scouts that the name
of the organizations makes us nauseous. No money for them.



How sad...
They can do SO much good!

The scouts are an excellent alternative to street gangs IMHO.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

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"Gabby" wrote:

"Dave Smith" wrote in message
...

Are there still choices? I used to like the Vanilla sandwich cookies when
they came in a box with half vanilla and half chocolate. I was never too
keen on the chocolate covered mint patties.

Based on these posts, I deduce that we Canadians are not as lucky as our
American cousins where Girl Guide cookies are concerned. Our only choices
are the vanilla & chocolate sandwich cookies (50/50 in each box) sold in the
spring and the 'chocolatey mint cookies' that are sold in the fall. Both
are made by Dare®.

Gabby






Mm, evidently not
GS cookies have special varieties.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:20:14 -0400, "Gabby"
wrote:

"Dave Smith" wrote in message
...

Are there still choices? I used to like the Vanilla sandwich cookies when
they came in a box with half vanilla and half chocolate. I was never too
keen on the chocolate covered mint patties.

Based on these posts, I deduce that we Canadians are not as lucky as our
American cousins where Girl Guide cookies are concerned. Our only choices
are the vanilla & chocolate sandwich cookies (50/50 in each box) sold in the
spring and the 'chocolatey mint cookies' that are sold in the fall. Both
are made by Dare®.

The fact that you can't get the shortbread cookies is downright
tragic.

Peace,
Carol

Mm, but shortbreads are one cookie that is easy to make.
The recipe is flour, butter and sugar.

I've considered playing with the atkins (or generic low carb) bake mix
to try to come up with a low carb version using splenda.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

"Dave Smith" wrote in message
...
Doug Kanter wrote:


My son and I had such hideous experiences with the Boy Scouts that the
name
of the organizations makes us nauseous. No money for them.

My son never made it as far as scouts, just cubs. The leaders of the local
cub
pack were a married couple, a couple of knobs. They were always on his
case
about things, not that he was an angel, but they just didn't like him at
all.
The last straw was when they had a bicycle safety rodeo and Mrs. Cubleader
said
in a loud voice in front of him and everyone else "Don't let this kid
anywhere
near a road on a bicycle". I don't think he was that bad. I used to ride
all
over the place with him. We would cycle for miles and I never had to worry
about him. I never cared much for either one of those two dinks and I
seriously think that they were judging him on the basis of their negative
attitude towards him. He was a very witty kid and did not get along with
their
not surprisingly knobby kid. Ironically, it was their son who got himself
killed in a car accident.



The organization attracts some real ******s! My son's troop did a trip from
upstate NY to Hershey, PA and a few other places down there. The leader was
a woman who had her head up her ass. When we arrived at the church to
depart, she had arranged for the priest to bless the troop and the trip. OK.
Fine. One Buddhist kid didn't say "amen", and she ripped him a new a-hole.
She then said we were to follow her on this 5 hour ride, convoy style, which
only crazy people think is a good idea. She chose the worst possible route,
a two-lane country road populated by an endless series of gravel trucks
which nobody could seem to pass. After an hour of going up mountains at 20
mph, breathing diesel fumes, I managed to pass the whole convoy. We spotted
the restaurant which was our first stopping point, and when she arrived, she
attempted to rip ME a new a-hole. The trip did NOT go well from that point
on. Two days later, we were at a scout camp which was 10 minutes from route
81, a real highway. It was pouring rain, and she planned to go back to the
nasty country road. I told her I'd be taking the highway. She told me there
was a buddy system, so I could not take a different route back unless there
was another car with me. I gave her 15 minutes to find one. She didn't. The
rest of the sheep took 8 hours to get home.

Oh...and my son had been camping since he was like 2. He'd set up tents in
rain & high winds lots of times with his parents. The leader was showing the
kids how to set up their tents, and taking forever as the temp was dropping
and darkness was near. My son took matters into his own hands and had his
tent up, with the help of another kid, in about two minutes. He got yelled
at for not listening.

But, the last straw was when the BSA eliminated the merit badge for
Unitarians, which my son was sorta kinda trying to get.

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
...
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"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"notbob" wrote in message
...
On 2006-03-28, Doug Kanter wrote:

You're kidding, right? All their cookies are awful.

Nonsense. I've been buying their shortbread cookies for decades.
Love 'em!

I just make a
contribution and tell them I can't eat cookies. This amazes them.

That's what I do for their candies. Does freak 'em out, don't it.

I wish the Boy Scouts shilled something good to eat. When I was a
scout, we sold fireworks to raise money, but the safety police have
screwed that up. I just send them a check directly, thereby avoiding
all that PC bullshit from United Way.

nb


My son and I had such hideous experiences with the Boy Scouts that the
name
of the organizations makes us nauseous. No money for them.



How sad...
They can do SO much good!

The scouts are an excellent alternative to street gangs IMHO.
--
Peace, Om.

Yeah, but the goal is to teach boys how to be men, not sheep, which is what
some of the leaders believe.