Girl Scout cookies are guilt free

March 3, 1:17 PMSouth St. Paul ExaminerRob Shirk

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Girl Scout cookies

I was opening a line of Girl Scout cookies just last night and I did not hear anyone protesting that it takes away potential money from Rainbow Foods' line of Kebler cookies or anything like it. Considering what happened last Christmas around here, I was mildly disappointed.

During the Christmas season last year, the Boy Scouts of America made an agreement with Cub Foods in West St. Paul, MN to use part of their parking lot to sell Christmas trees to help finance summer camps.

The parking lot sits within a block of a Southview Garden Center who also sells Christmas trees and whose owner made loud protestations to the city council that the Boy Scouts of America were "poaching" while his business depends on the selling of trees to make ends meet. After all, he pays taxes year round where the Scouts did not.

The scouts sold their trees and I do not know the fate of the garden center and whether their trees got sold or not.

In all fairness, though, someone should protest against the girls, as well. Fair play, and all that.

So who is to protest against the Girl Scouts? I'll bet they make quite a bit of cash, for worthy causes, during these drives to the detriment of other cookie manufacturers, but I see no protest anywhere. I opened my line of cookies guilt-free. No one has thrown a rock through my window, yet.

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