Girl Scout Cookies

The Five Best Places for Cupcakes in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

Caitlin and Abigail Mills: Hazelwood Girl Scouts Bring Cookie Case to Court

​Judge Richard Bresnahan yesterday agreed to hear the case of Caitlin and Abigail Mills, the Hazelwood Girl Scouts who were told by that city that they couldn't sell Girl Scout cookies from a front-yard stand. Dave Roland, the Mills sisters' attorney, has challenged Hazelwood's ruling that th ... More >>

Girl Scouts Introduce New "Savannah Smiles" Cookie, Gut Check's Thoughts Turn to Porn

​Gut Check is going to go out on a precarious limb here and assume that if you were to make a Venn diagram of a) Girl Scouts of America executives, b) aficionados of early 1990's porn and c) fans of the band Okkervil River, it would feature very little overlap.So we're not sure what it says about ... More >>

The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

Holiday Cocktail Countdown #9: Mangia Italiano's The Grinch

Like any red-blooded American, Gut Check uses liquid medication to cope with holiday stress. Not only does a good winter cocktail make it possible to tolerate family members, say, inquiring about your procreation plans, it helps keep you warm, too. From now until Christmas, we're calling upon local ... More >>

Girl Scouts of the USA Gives Its Rules on Driveway Cookie Sales

Wikimedia CommonsNot every Girl Scout sells cookies door-to-door. ​Believe it or not, despite our grumblings, Gut Check is heavily involved in Girl Scouts. We co-lead a troop of Brownies who, yes, spend one month a year selling Girl Scout cookies. With all the kerfluffle in Hazelwood about a ... More >>

Hazelwood Girl Scouts Lose Their Appeal

Verboten without a permit: Girl Scout cookies​Score one for the bureaucrats.KMOV (Channel 4) is reporting that the judge hearing the appeal of two Hazelwood Girl Scouts hoping to sell Girl Scout cookies out of their driveway has dismissed their plea without comment.The Girl Scouts were represe ... More >>

Two Girl Scouts v. Hazelwood: The Trial Continues

Unless, of course, you want to buy them from the Mills family in Hazelwood.​The court case we mentioned yesterday, which we're going to refer to as Two Girl Scouts v. City of Hazelwood, found two local cookie pushers and their parents taking on said city and its regulation against the sale of ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

Girl Scouts Take the City of Hazelwood to Court For Permission to Peddle Cookies

Watch out: These could land you in court.​The problem began with Girl Scout cookies. This is a strange truth, to be sure, but that problem progressed when Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills were barred from selling those cookies in their home driveway. In March, their home city of Hazelwood ... More >>

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Hazelwood Shuts Down Girl Scout Cookie Stand

​Scandal! Local authorities have cracked down on two lawless rogues operating a high-volume commodities business out of their residence in Hazelwood! The scheming perpetrators were told to shut down their shady practice posthaste or otherwise face a court summons! Yup, it's true: The city of ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Dogs Can Sniff Out Cookie-Hating Idiots

Today's comment of the day comes in response to John H. Tucker's report about the city of Hazelwood barring local Girl Scouts from selling cookies out of their driveway.As Tucker reported, Hazelwood claimed the cookie sales were causing neighborhood dogs to bark -- which triggered this insightful co ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Want to Puke -- Episode 2: Caramel deLites (a.k.a. Samoas)

​It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and Gut Check is celebrating by taking a more-than-cursory glance at this annual sugar and saturated-fat bacchanalia and, well, kinda throwing up in our mouth. In our first episode, we decried the non-nutritive abominations known as Peanut Butter Patties, or as ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies Make Us Want to Puke -- Episode 1: Peanut Butter Patties

Why are these girls so cheerful? Must be the partially hydrogenated palm kernel, and/or cottonseed oils.​Gut Check is sick and tired of people gushing about their love of Girl Scout Cookies. We're no hectoring health-food nutjob. We eat (and drink) our share of crap that's no good for us. But ... More >>

Food Fights Signal Bad Manners, End Times.

Sure, we all love food. But are we willing to fight for it? Go to jail for it? Or, perhaps, die for it? Judging from recent headlines, the End Times have arrived, signaled by that famine horseman who's prompting people to ape shit on one another over snack foods. Or maybe it's just time to offer ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

How to Identify a Census Worker

Behold a census worker. ​A census worker won't:sell you Girl Scout cookies (or anything else). stalk you, but he (or she) will knock on your door up to three times. come inside your house. (So, don't even ask.)Still unclear about what a census worker will and won't do? You're in luck! Daily RFT ju ... More >>

LA Writer Boycotts Monsanto (For A Month)

Image sourceApril Dávila happy and free after a month without Monsanto. (Not really.)​Like many people who have seen the documentary Food, Inc., April Dávila left the theater feeling pretty pissed off at Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agricultural company that has the distinction of being the ... More >>

Fish Fry Frenzy, Week 3: Epiphany of Our Lord

A church with a bowling alley's a bit out of the ordinary. Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church is also a school, though. What? Your school didn't have eight lanes and an arcade with a smoking lounge and bar? Or a Lenten fish fry in the gym next door? Robin Wheeler​Having learned from last ... More >>

Gut Check's Schwag Bag: Greg's Hemp Oil Salad Dressing

This product comes from Greg Perez, the ex-chef and owner at the now-shuttered Grateful Inn, formerly located on Manchester Road in Maplewood. Since the restaurant, which featured several hemp-based dishes on the menu, closed in March of last year, Perez has focused on expanding his salad dressing ... More >>

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time!

Little Brownie BakersBack in the day, there were few times of the year that made me more miserable than the Girl Scout cookie drive. Every afternoon and on weekends, I would put on my oh-so-stylish brown polyester jumper and sash and roam the streets of my neighborhood, knocking on doors and, if any ... More >>

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