• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Meh. Their cookies suck imo. Over priced and the boxes are tiny. The lemon are decent and the chocolate mint are decent too the rest can be tossed into the ocean.

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      9 months ago

      I tried selling boy scout popcorn and that shit was a pain in the ass. It was like $10 for some microwave popcorn or something. Wasn’t even good. Honestly, if you see these poor guys, donate money directly to them if you don’t want to try the shit popcorn. (Thank you to the Eagle Scout Vons employee who donated $50 to Troop 1238!)

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        9 months ago

        Or don’t donate to the Boy Scouts at all since they don’t accept trans scouts and don’t accept LGBT+ leaders.

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          9 months ago

          They changed that policy a few years ago. They are behind the times but making changes due to social pressure

          • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            9 months ago

            Pretty sure the social pressure was the Mormon church.

            For those that don’t know Scouts BSA, their new name, accepts girls too.

            • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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              9 months ago

              Yeah my troop (1238) have girls in it too (1238G). We were the first ones in our area to implement this as soon as the rules allowed us to do so.

              Honestly, I have never experienced anything but good things in scouting. It very well could be regional, maybe in Texas or something they could be really racist and anti lgbt. It’s pretty much dependent upon which people decide to volunteer their time and contribute to making a good troop.

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                9 months ago

                Each troop is pretty self contained, for the most part. The one my son and I are involved with is very open. I was hesitant to let him join when he wanted because of all the issues in the past with the organization but now I’m his den leader with 6 other kids and an assistant leader.

                • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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                  9 months ago

                  Yeah one troop could be very progressive and nice but the troop over in the next park might be very conservative and close minded. It’s pretty self-contained like you said.

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      9 months ago

      it’s a fundraiser.

      if you just want cookies, get 'em at the grocery store or bake 'em yourself.

      • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I do which is why I don’t buy them.

        Fundraiser or not their cookies suck. Being a fundraiser isn’t a good excuse for why their cookies blow.

        They could be a fundraiser AND have good cookies but they decided to go the wrong way.

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          9 months ago

          The mint ones are pretty good. But they will obviously be overpriced. The whole dealo is that they first buy cookies and then sell those same cookies for the fund raising. Same shit the boy scouts do with popcorn