Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
I think you mean Olive.
Olive?
Because today we're trying girl scout cookies.
Ah, daggumit.
It's a big thing, girl scout cookies in America.
There is a girl scout cookie season.
On average, 800 million dollars worth of cookies are sold in four months a year.
Who has the record?
That's the record?
32...
Okay, so some girl scouts are doing the heavy lifting.
These are some of the most popular ones.
Okay.
If you had to guess which one was the most sold out of any of these,
take one guess.
S'mores.
- S'mores are great but it's nowhere near the top. - I can tell by the tone of your voice.
We've actually got it in order of popularity.
The most popular girl scouts cookie, Thin Mints!
Okay, that's interesting.
What do you mean by interesting?
It says a lot.
Yeah?
Not about the girl scouts, but the kind of people who are buying girl scout cookies.
Old people.
Heck yeah...
...which is what I would say to a girl scout.
Because it's appropriate.
I wouldn't say "hell, yeah".
Heck yes. Mint chocolate sometimes works.
I quite like mint chocolate ice cream but not on many other occasions.
That works.
That's really good.
I badly want another one.
That's way better.
I could plow through that.
I can see myself buying 32,000 boxes.
Oh no.
Oh...
Okay, Let's take those away.
Second most popular type of girl scout cookie.
Samoas.
And Caramel deLites.
Oh wow, look at that.
These smell incredible.
These smell absolutely incredible.
Samoas, yeah?
Oh wow!
They smell just like coconut caramel!
Hint of dark chocolate.
There's cookie in the middle of that.
I thought that was just gonna be like chewy coconut.
Whatever that is...
That is amazing.
That's better than the mints.
That is significantly better than...oh my gosh!
That is...
I'll tell you what. Americans...
Some things they've just flipping got down.
Cookies...that recipe is perfected.
Let's see if the Caramel DeLite is any better, slash any different.
If it is different,
I'm going to be annoyed.
Wait.
They're actually identical.
Okay.
They're just made in different bakeries.
That makes senes. We are not living in a mad world.
Next up, we have Tagalongs.
Probably saying that so wrong.
Yeah, tag-alongs right?
Or taga-longs?
Taga-longs. Yes, it's definitely taga-longs.
They could be taga-longs. I don't know!
They are definitely tag-alongs.
And these are apparently crispy cookies layered with peanut butter,
and covered with a fudge coating.
I feel like we're straying into hardcore American territory.
Peanut butter thing.
You know we don't have that many peanut butter filled snacks.
I think it's peanut but-ter.
Shut up!
Peanut but-ter filled snacks.
There's not many of them in the UK.
Alright. As it feels like we're in proper American cookie territory here.
Let's have some mil-k.
It's not...
It's not even that funny.
So dumb.
Thanks, buddy.
You're very welcome.
Let's go peanut butter patty.
Let's do it.
Are you gonna dip?
Yeah, I'm gonna dip.
Wow, okay.
Okay.
There's a thick layer of peanut butter on there.
Yeah, I mean it's pleasingly simple.
- Chocolate...biscuit...peanut butter chocolate. - Crunchy cookie.
That's good.
I wonder if anyone like, scrapes the peanut butter top off the cookie.
- It depends if you're eating in front of your granny. - I feel like that's what I would do.
I feel like about 90 percent of these are eaten in front of your granny.
You know?
That's a lot of cookies.
They sell 200 million boxes of these.
Yeah.
15 in each box.
Yeah.
Hey Siri, what's 15 times 200 million?
- Three billion... - Three billion cookies!
- A year. - In four months!
No wonder they got an obesity problem.
Okay.
Oh man.
A bit more classic now, shortbread.
I mean they took this from the Scots, right?
This is something that we in Britain have been doing for a long time.
I mean, yes.
Scottish shortbread in particular is iconic.
Top-notch stuff that.
It normally has tartan all over it.
On the box.
And they are at great pains to convince you that there's real butter involved at some point.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like, oh my gosh guys, can you believe it?
We found this really rare ingredient that you literally can't get anywhere.
It's called butter and we put it in there.
There's loads of it in here.
Or is it but-tar?
- I can't remember- - Okay.
Okay.
Immediately...
Love it.
You like that?
It's so much more bland than British shortbreads.
It's like communion bread.
You flipping love bland biscuits.
I forget!
I wasn't impressed by that.
Um... I feel like, your affinity for that comes from,
literally your love of food that tastes like cardboard.
I'm Brigadier Bland.
Next up, Adventurefuls.
Ooh!
Fancy name.
Indulgent brownie-inspired cookies...
Mmmm, brownie inspired.
With caramel flavoured crème and a hint of sea salt.
Wow.
I mean...
That's disappointing.
I was wanting a soft brownie filling.
That is really disappointing.
- You know? - Yeah.
It's not even half full of adventure.
Adventurefuls, a little bit disappointing.
Yeah, falls down.
Not the type of adventure I want to go on.
Maybe this is the problem with starting at the most popular and going to the least.
Definitely.
Alright, next up...
We've got lemon ups.
Crispy lemon cookies, baked with inspiring messages to lift your spirits!
Okay, what's your inspiring message?
- They're different! - Mine is 'I am creative'.
Whoa!
- It's desitiny! - I am!
- I am creative! - It's destiny.
What are you?
Mine is just wrong.
It says I'm a risk taker.
I freaking hate taking risks.
I sensibly avoid risks as much as possible.
- Lemony. - That's nice, it's got a lemon glaze on the bottom.
It's not trying to do anything fancy.
It's giving you a nice little inspiring message.
Yeah, it's like Love Hearts.
I think it's better than Love Hearts.
Oh, that's delicious.
I like that a lot.
Lemon shortbread doesn't sound like it would work but it does.
Final cookie is the only one with girl scout in its name.
- Okay, they're putting their name to it. - They claimed it.
And it's the least popular.
Girl Scout S'mores.
Now, I'm worried about this.
Yeah, the brownie ones set this up for failure.
Because s'mores, it's not a complicated concept.
Exactly, like the brownies.
So don't...you know, don't change it.
It's like if I came to you like, Josh, I've got an idea,
how to reinvent the pizza, right?
You'd be like, the last guy who tried that was Jimmy Calzone.
And it did not go well for him.
And he didn't learn his lesson from Dave Hawaiian.
Okay, the Hawaiian pizza is a great-.
Yes!
Come on, Grace.
See, all it is just animosity...into the world.
What on earth?
White and brown filling.
I guess that's like the chocolate and marshmallow.
Oh, there's like activities on the side.
Ah because it's girl scout.
Is it like golf clubs?
It looks like some kind of sport?
Alright.
Alright, cheers.
Okay.
You don't like that?
It's kind of like an off-brand Oreo.
Do you know what I mean?
It's just a revolting aftertaste.
That's the graham cracker. It's like a whole wheat cracker.
I hate it.
You hate it?
I hate it.
- Wait, so that was the last one? - That was the last one.
Wow, what a downer.
Okay.
Look, here. I'll tell you what...
You can have some more shortbread to end it on,
sInce it's like your bland favourite.
That was us trying girl scout cookies for the first time.
So you don't have to.
But statistically if you're in America, you probably do quite regularly.
You definitely will.
And to all you girl scouts out there, keep selling.
You're crushing it.
- Keep it up. - You are absolutely crushing it.
Probably there's more money generated,
from girl scout cookies than I think there's probably tax income in the UK.
Oh no...
- So congratulations. - Well done.
And in the meantime...
We'll see you JOLLY soon.