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Default The Girl Scouts are Coming! The Girl Scouts are Coming!

notbob wrote:

> On 2007-01-24, jmcquown > wrote:
>
> > are good but I still love those butter cookies, can't recall what
> > they are called. They taste like Lorna Doones which is nothing
> > more than Scottish shortbread

>
> They're my favorite, also, Jill. I seem to recall they were at one
> time called Scotch Teas. In the last few years they've been called
> Trefoils, whatever the heck that is.


A trefoil is a symbol with three lobes to it. The Girl Scout symbol is
a trefoil, and it's imprinted on the cookies.



Brian

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