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C is for Reduced Trans Fat Cookie, That’s Good Enough for Me
Girl Guide cookies just keep evolving. First they went nut-free [PDF] in 2005 due to allergy concerns. Now, in an effort to appease a health-obsessed society, come spring 2009 the Girl Guides of Canada are unrolling 90 percent trans fat-reduced classic chocolate and vanilla cookies and chocolate-mint cookies. In case you didn’t know, trans fats are the really bad kind of fats, so hated that they were banned in Calgary at the start of 2008.
Reps for GGC reassure us that they didn’t mess with the flavour of the iconic cookies. But if the comments sections of the major dailies are any indication, the taste of the current cookies is already a hotly contested issue. After poring over several diatribes on the subject, we can only conclude that people think about Girl Guide cookies way, way too much.
But it’s a sad day indeed when cute Girl Guides can’t unload boxes of something that was never meant to be healthy in the first place. If this new move doesn’t pan out, they might want to consider raising funds by selling something else. Maybe handbags? Everyone likes handbags. In times like these, watching this clip from the 1989 film Troop Beverly Hills is the only thing to do.
Photo courtesy of the Girl Guides of Canada.