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Their cookie is goosed:

As tractor-trailers full of Girl Scout cookies roll in to Delaware distribution points this week, their sugary contents weigh a little less than they did this time last year, a victim of cost-cutting measures.

Popular cookie varietiessuch as Thin Mints, Do-si-Dos and Trefoils now contain from two to four fewer cookies per box. And the Lemon Chalet Cremes, which last year were rectangular, now are round and slightly smaller.

And they were already, ounce for ounce, the most expensive cookies normal folks buy with any regularity.

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3 comments

  1. Bill

    February 7, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Just like a half-gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts…

     
  2. Karen

    February 7, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    Or a 5 pound bag of sugar can be gotten in the 4 pound size.

     
  3. Frank

    February 7, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    And the single-serving yoghurt containers are shrinking.

     
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