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Lead me not into temptation
I've avoided alcohol for most of the year. I haven't had a giant burrito since Thanksgiving. And I thought I had escaped the siren song of the girl scout cookies. I bravely strode by dozens of tables piled high with Samoas and Tagalongs all season, looking the other way, being strong. I once walked by five separate packs of scouts pushing their evil (but yummy!) trans-fatty nuggets on the street within about four blocks, and still I managed not to buy a single box.
Now I'm at my parents' house in SoCal, halfway to Tempe. I just ate 2.5 girl scout cookies.
It's not the end of the world. At least I didn't eat 25 girl scout cookies -- which I am quite capable of doing. But eww, I feel kinda gross.
Damn, I love those Samoas.
April 9, 2008 9:03 PM
I, too, will always call those cookies Samoas, but I don't think they've been called that officially in a very long time. It actually helps me not buy them, believe it or not (I have no idea why this helps), when I walk past those tables and remember that they changed the name. (What are they called now? Coconut Chocolate Caramel Sins in a Box?) Then I also remember their evil, evil caramel and chocolate ways. And that they're made of real girl scouts.
2.5 cookies is probably good for the soul, don't you think? Besides, you burned all those calories getting to SoCal...
You know, Puritan ethics have this whole concept of good / evil, black / white, right / wrong. It's two-sided, so there's really no winning. Virtue ethics, on the other hand (Socrates), has the idea of moderation - so they've got black / gray / white, and gray is where you want to be. Somewhere happy in the middle.