Along with her mom, Lisa, McKenna made a batch of cookies using the very first Girl Scout cookie recipe, a seven-ingredient bake more than a century old. Indeed, Girl Scouts used to bake and sell ...

Even using the most conservative numbers cited by Fagan gives an unattainable tally. A child could eat 370 Girl Scout cookies a day for a lifetime before exceeding what California deems a dangerous ...

but the cookies themselves aren’t totally identical. Name and recipe differences are just some of the “quirks” of the century-old Girl Scout Cookie sale program, says Girl Scouts of the USA ...