100 years of Girl Scout Cookies

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Girl Scout Cookies  by Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar licensed by (CC BY 2.0)

It is Girl Scout cookie season and these treats are turning 100 years old this year.

NBC News said, people nationwide have began looking for their favorite Girl Scout cookies.

The organization has a variety of flavors such as the Thin Mints, Do-si-dos and Trefoils.

This year they have a new addition to the cookies called S’mores.

Girl Scouts cookies were started in the town of Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 1933, the official Girl Scout cookies came from Philadelphia and they are currently manufactured at Louisville, Kentucky and Richmond, Virginia.

Published by Kayla Collins

Kayla Collins is a graduate student at University of Illinois at Springfield. She was news reporter at Tri States Public Radio. She graduated from Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School in 2013. She attended Western Illinois University, majoring in broadcasting with a minor in journalism. She was a radio news announcer and producer for NEWS3. Her interest in broadcasting started during her sophomore year at WIU. She enjoys spending time with family, singing, and writing.

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