another reviewer<\/a>\u00a0(who received the product free from the manufacturer) had a \u201cmeh\u201d review as well, obeserving that the cookies come out looking\u00a0nothing like the pictures on the packages, and tasting only modestly similar.<\/p>\nSo, again, we\u2019re a Boy Scout family, with my husband the scoutmaster and all three boys involved. \u00a0And it\u2019s hard to say what we\u2019d be up to if we had girls \u2014 whether we\u2019d be making the most of the Girl Scout program, trying one of the competitors like the American Heritage Girls, or just trying to teach her \u201cscouting\u201d skills within the family.<\/p>\n
But are these licensing deals really going to do anything to promote Girl Scouting? \u00a0All I see is a marketing of Girl Scout cookies, and a reinforcing of the imagine that Girl Scouts are all about cookie-selling and crafts, where the Boy Scouts, on the other hand, capitalize on their \u201cBe Prepared\u201d heritage.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No, I don\u2019t mean that they\u2019ve set up a cookie-selling booth. I mean that they\u2019ve gotten into the licensing game. Now, Boy Scouts do this already. \u00a0Here\u2019s my son\u2019s First Aid kit, purchased at Meijer, which, by the way, we purchased because it seemed to fit the bill, not because of the logo. In case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[490,491],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boy-scouts","tag-girl-scouts"],"yoast_head":"\n
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