Girl Scouts Celebrate 100 Years With New Cookie

Girl Scouts new lemon cookie

Girl Scouts Introduce New Lemon 'Savannah Smiles' Cookie

Girl Scout cookie fans, rejoice! A new cookie has been added to the Girl Scout lineup of options.

'Savannah Smiles' is their new lemon cookie, shaped like a smile, and dusted in powdered sugar.

According to the website, the cookie is inspired by Savannah, Georgia. "It was there in 1912 that Juliette Gordon Low walked beneath the moss-draped trees and made the decision to start her amazing organization for girls."

The Little Brownie Bakers are paying tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts with the lemony treat, shaped like a wedge to remind people of the "world-famous Brownie Smile."

Of course, the proof is in the pudding. Or, in this case, the cookie.

Huffington Post reviewed the new Savannah Smiles Girl Scout cookie, with the following notes:

The smile shape of the cookie looks "like bizarre bloated half-moons."

The cookie is hard and there's a lot of powdered sugar.

(That means it's messy, folks.)

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How does it taste? The Huff Post reviewer notes, "This cookie is perfectly fine, but not a game changer. The lemon is immediately evident and tastes a little fake."

Their biggest complaint is that the "cookie suffers from is its lack of uniqueness."

The review also compares the new cookie to the Girl Scouts' previous lemon temptation, Lemon Coolers.

The Girl Scout organization responded: "Our bakers update the ingredients to all of their varieties frequently, so the Lemon Cooler and Savannah Smile are based on the same concept cookie and essentially taste the same, but one will have slightly different ingredients from the other, with the Savannah Smile being more in line with the modern ingredients used."

Okay then, doesn't sound all that original.

I'm a 'Thin Mints' girl, anyway, so the new lemon entry is lost on me.