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While the holiday slump and the depths of winter seem long and expansive, a colorful table will station in front of your local post office, community center, or gas station like clockwork and will bring a perk back into your step — Girl Scout cookies. The brightly colored boxes house an array of cookies. From the caramel coconut Samoas to the minty chocolaty coolness of a Thin Mint, and all the way around to the double peanut butter delight of a Do-Si-Do, there’s a cookie for nearly everyone! This coming year is, unfortunately, seeing a shift as two of the cookies are singing their swan songs before retirement next year.

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Not all Girl Scout cookies are endowed with a forever spot on the order sheet. If you were a fan of the campfire dessert cookie S’mores or the cinnamon-flavored toast-shaped Toast-Yays!, then you might want to order a few extra boxes and savor the moment. The S’mores released in 2017 and the Toast-Yays! released in 2021 both had a brief run but after this year’s round of Girl Scout cookie orders, they will be discontinued.

Discontinuing cookies isn’t a new thing to the Girl Scout brand of cookies. A lot of the swap-outs are due to what does and does not sell, mixed with other production reasons, of course. Some cookies get a lukewarm reception that can’t continue for another year, as seen with a lot of the fat-free or lemon cookies produced throughout the decades. Yet there are cookies like the Kit-Kat chocolate wafer Kookaburras of the 1980s or the 30-year run of the Scot-Tea (from the 50s to the 80s), which were popular but discontinued, with many Girl Scout cookie aficionados hoping for their return.

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While it seems like s’mores would be a surefire cookie flavor, the cinnamon-flavored cookie will meet its fate in the cinnamon-cookie graveyard. Before Toast-Yays!, the Girl Scouts played around with some cinnamon cookie flavors. In the late 90s to early 2000s, one of the two Girl Scout cookie manufacturers, ABC Bakers, made another cinnamon-infused cookie called Five World Cinnamon. After a seven-year cinnamon-cookie hiatus, ABC Bakers produced a new cinnamon cookie called Cinna-Spins which was immediately replaced with another cinnamon cookie called Daisy Rounds in 2009. The other manufacturer Little Brownie Bakers (LBB) made an apple-shaped cookie called Apple Cinnamons which saw success but was inevitably discontinued. It is safe to say that cinnamon Girl Scout cookies have never made it big. The lack of variety with a s/mores cookie limits the flavor combination to some degree which could’ve been the reason why it went on the chopping block.

However, a spokesperson for the Girl Scouts says that evaluating cookies and discontinuing some gives the opportunity for new releases and new flavor combinations. What’s to come is hard to say, as a lot of the recent releases have been short-lived, like the Raspberry Rallies of 2023. Yet, maybe the new releases will have as success as the recent launch of the brownie caramel Adventurefuls of 2022.

What flavors do you hope to see in the Girl Scout cookie lineup? Are there certain ones you’d wish they’d bring back?