Why samoas changed names

I know this is old news but it comes up almost every year when we pull out our pocketbooks to buy our favorite Girl Scout cookies. Why did the Samoa get renamed to the Caramel Delite? There are several theories on this one myths to be busted, actually. The myths are more fun and scandalous of course, but the truth is out there and must be shared!

Myth 1: Girl Scouts changed the name because it was offensive to the Samoan people. There is no evidence of this. Myth 2: Girl Scouts changed the name because Caramel Delite sounds more healthy. If you think Girl Scout cookies are healthy in any way, shape or form, you are clearly deluding yourself. If the Girl Scouts wanted to imply that eating cookies was a healthy activity, they would be fighting an uphill battle and losing horribly.

But, for shits and giggles, feel free to read this rant I found not sure if this guy is for real or just trolling but it made me laugh my ass off. You read that right. The name never changed.

Let me repeat that so it sinks in. The name. Now you might be shouting at your screen insisting that the name did change. What happened is that the Girl Scouts in your area started getting their cookies from a different distributor. The merger of many Girl Scout councils due to a reorganization in yes, I know, old news caused many troops to change which bakery they used.

Samoas can still be purchased, but your girl scout cookie dealer I mean seller needs to get her cookies from the right source. Which brings us to drum roll please…. The reason they have different names is that they are made by different bakeries. They are made with the same recipe and are the same cookie, just with different names. I am sharing this very dusty podcast episode with you, recorded back when there was a huge slate of presidential hopefuls and Girl Scouts could actually sell cookies in person, because I was and still am a little mad like the host and guest, I can hold a grudge.

The question they were discussing was even dustier, settled in a time when Girl Scouts could sell cookies door to door without parental escorts and when you had to listen to podcasts on the radio.

Why are there two Girl Scout cookie bakers? What happened to the other twenty-seven? Why do people need to receive cookies in order to contribute to a worthy cause? Why do we so often meet slight differences with hostility? But if your child is a member of the Girl Scouts of North East Ohio, I will buy at least 5 boxes of Samoas and 5 boxes of Tagalongs from her because some cookies are better than no cookies and I have a very long driveway.

It obtained a federal trademark registration for Samoas in Thus, the Little Brownie Bakers became the exclusive owner of Samoas to identify cookies throughout the United States.

Well played, Little Brownie Bakers, well played. As the market for Girl Scout cookies expanded over the years, the Girl Scouts have had to commission the assistance of additional bakeries. The other bakeries, however, cannot use the Samoas trademark unless the trademark owner grants them the right, which apparently has not happened. And, in fairness, Interbake Foods, LLC, the bakery that produces Caramel deLites may not want the name, since it too has a federal trademark registration for the Caramel deLites brand cookie.

Unconfirmed internet research suggests that each independent bakery that bakes for the Girl Scouts uses their own recipe, so the Samoas brand cookie really is not the same cookie as the Caramel deLites brand cookie.