Yesterday I bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies™ for the first time in years.  Thin Mints, what else?  So now, midnight-snack time.  I open the box, pull apart the (new) foil envelope and grab the first cookie.  I can tell at first bite, it’s not the same item at all.  First, it is not thin anymore!  This version is at least a third thicker than the classic.  And it is no longer a chocolate-coated white shortbread cookie — the new cookie is brown through and through.  The classic cookie had a “GS” trefoil design baked into the top, but the modern cookie is nondescript save for several pin-prick holes.  On the classic cookie,  the chocolate coating was so thick you could scrape it off with your teeth — next to impossible now.

And I dare say, the new Thin Mint is just not that minty.  What a travesty.  Girl Scouts will be trudging down many a lonely, weed-strewn sidewalk before I buy another box of these.