Girl Scout Cookie Booth Sales Begin This Weekend

Dying for some Thin Mints? Your wait is almost over. Starting this weekend, the troops in the Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital will be selling their famous cookies in booths all around the region, including.

Booth sales will continue until March 28th, but your best chance of getting your favorite cookie is during the early selling period.

All cookies contain zero grams of transfats. Need a refresher on the cookies? Here they are (not all will necessarily be available at every sale):

• Samoa: The Samoa cookie has a hole in the middle, is covered with caramel and toasted coconut and striped with chocolate. It's also celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.
• Do-Si-Do: Oatmeal sandwich cookie with peanut butter filling 
• Tagalong: Peanut butter covered in chocolate
• Thin Mint: Mint covered in chocolate
• Trefoils: Shortbread
• Lemon Chalet Cremes: Lemon sandwich cookie
• Dulce de Leche
• Thank U Berry Munch

Girl Scout Cookie Sales in Lorton this weekend:

Fetch Pet Bakery
Shoppes at Lorton Valley

Friday, February 18

Troop 280

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Giant
Shoppes at Lorton Valley

Friday, February 18

Troop 3823

Troop 4272

4:00pm - 6:00pm

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Shell Gas Station
8225 Gunston Corner Lane

Friday, February 18

Troop 2896

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Fetch Pet Bakery                       

Shoppes at Lorton Valley

Saturday, February 19

Troop 5556

8:00am - 10:00am

Troop 4427

10:00am -12:00pm

Troop 2446

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Troop 4028

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Troop 2555

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Giant
Shoppes at Lorton Valley

Saturday, February 19

Troop 3393

10:00am – 12:00pm

Troop 3503

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Shell Gas Station

8225 Gunston Corner Lane

Saturday, February 19

Troop 3504

10:00am - 12:00pm

Troop 2781

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Troop 233

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Shoppers Food Warehouse (SFW)

Lorton Market Street

Saturday, February 19

Troop 5115

10:00am - 12:00pm

Troop 5867

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Troop 3723

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Fetch Pet Bakery                       

Shoppes at Lorton Valley

Sunday, February 20

Troop 2781

10:00am -12:00pm

Troop 1910

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Troop 2697

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Troop 4032

4:00pm – 6:00pm

 Shoppers Food Warehouse (SFW)

Lorton Market Street

Sunday, February 20

Troop 1645

10:00am - 12:00pm

Troop 315

12:00pm - 2:00pm

Troop 315

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Shell Gas Station
8225 Gunston Cove Lane

Sunday, February 20

Troop 5557

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Troop 3504

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Girl Scout Cookie Fun Facts:

• Little Brownie bakes over 4,500,000 Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies per day during peak baking times.
• We make our own caramel for Samoas®. It‘s cooked the old fashion way in copper kettles to 234 degrees.
• Do-si-dos® and Tagalongs® take 230,000 lbs. of peanut butter per week.
• Peanut butter crème is deposited onto Do-si-do® cookies at the rate of 2800 per minute.
• After exiting the oven, Thin Mints travel 300 feet on a conveyer belt to cool before being coated in the chocolate.
• A rotary die shapes Trefoils. There are 300 identical Trefoil shapes engraved in one rotary die. The die rotates 17 times a minute equaling 5100 cookies a minute.
• Samoas® go through a cooling tunnel at 40-50 degrees before chocolate is applied.
• Do-si-dos® are wrapped at 64 packages per minute.