It's about the business of Girl Scouts making themselves into entrepreneurs. But it's not about much else.
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Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival I’ve never seen a documentary about Girl Scout Cookies before, so I went into Alysa Nahmias’s “Cookie Queens” figuring that it might include, among other things, a tantalizing history of this beloved American institution — a rundown of the nine current varieties of Girl Scout Cookie (my favorite: Samoas, obvi! With Tagalongs a close second), a survey of some of the dozens of discontinued flavors (Rasberry Rallies, we hardly knew ye), and — more to the point — a look at how Girl Scout Cookies came to be, how the Girl Scout Cookie season developed into a wholesome Middle American pastime, and what Girl Scout Cookies have meant, through the decades, to those of us who hungrily consume them and to all the girls who’ve devoted themselves to selling boxes of them.
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