They must be called THIN mints for a reason. You should be able to them by the box with impunity. And if you only eat the centers of the Samoas there is no risk of weight gain.

Thin mints and tagalongs are great coming out of the freezer. Samoas don't work as well, it's like stuffing a pine cone into your mouth. Nuking it for a 15 seconds helps, but then you don't get the calorie burning of warming it up... so while it's being nuked, do jumping jacks.

This "calorie burning" claim is silly. Body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius. If you drink one liter of ice water, your body's warming it up to its own temperature requires only 37 calories. Now melting a gram of ice in your mouth requires about .08 calories. Heating it up to body temperature requires only .037 calories. I doubt one would want to melt more than a few grams of ice in one's mouth.

We're not talking about ice. We're talking about thin mints. Dummy.

The water content and specific heat of a thin mint is less than that of a gram of ice. But if you were merely being jocular in your first post in this thread, you may disregard my prior post.

As many calories as I burned shoveling snow this week, I could eat a case of Thin Mints and still be in a calories deficit

TS

They shouldn't even post calorie counts on GS cookies. They should just have a facepalm symbol and maybe "you don't want to know" written under it.

"If you have to ask, you can't afford it!"

I am especially poor in that regard but it doesn't stop me from enjoying the occaisional case.

I recommend any cookie in large concentration.

Chas is right, life in Japan has taught me that even the absence of girl scout cookies can be overcome with sufficient courage, improvisation and butterfat.

If in doubt, I recommend these:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/dining/111brex.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brownies&st=cse

My current favorite.