Heard about the ban of Girl Scout Cookies in Texas? Seems the Scouts’ association with Planned Parenthood was a bit unsavory for these lone-star palettes and they’ve boycotted the cookies in Crawford. I wholeheartedly agree with the boycott, though not for their puritanical reasons. Check out the label on the box and you will see what’s become our national beverage: partially hydrogenated oil. OK, I know it’s solid at room temperature (that’s why they use it) so the beverage joke doesn’t really work, but it illustrates the point. Partially hydrogenated oil is an unhealthful shelf-life extender that is forced down our throats by its ubiquitousness. It has been widely recognized as a major contributor to heart disease. Couldn’t the Girl Scouts get together in their local troops and make some homemade all-natural cookies? That would carry the pristine and wholesome image so much further. I mean, if you’re going to associate with heart disease and poor health, why not just expand to a full line of products like Girl Scout cigarettes or Girl Scout pork rinds? But then again, without Texas, would they really have much of a market?
But those thin mints taste so good!
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