--- title: Thin Mint Shortage description: Delivery of the Girl Scout cookie Thin Mints is delayed canonical: https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-19T19:30:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:00.858Z og:title: Your Girl Scout Cookies Might Be Late Because People Ordered Too Many Thin Mints og:description: Delivery of the Girl Scout cookie Thin Mints is delayed og:url: https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Your Girl Scout Cookies Might Be Late Because People Ordered Too Many Thin Mints twitter:description: Delivery of the Girl Scout cookie Thin Mints is delayed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Your Girl Scout Cookies Might Be Late Because People Ordered Too Many Thin Mints  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 19, 2015 7:30 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 19, 2015 7:30 PM UTC Demand for thin mint Girl Scout cookies is high. So high, in fact, that supplies are getting thin, so to speak — at least for one bakery that makes them. ABC’s _Good Morning America_ [reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/girl-scout-cookie-fans-wait-thin-mints/story?id=29049847) Little Brownie Bakers has pushed back delivery dates so it can meet the “greater than expected” demand for the chocolate-covered mint cookies, according to Girl Scouts USA. A spokesperson for the organization also [told GMA](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/girl-scout-cookie-fans-wait-thin-mints/story?id=29049847) that the delays currently affect six percent of the 112 Girl Scout councils. Local councils that do not use this baker have taken to Twitter to reassure customers: Have no fear: Thin Mints are here! The national Thin Mint production shortage will NOT affect customers in our region — Girl Scouts Nation's Capital (@GSCNC) [February 19, 2015](https://twitter.com/GSCNC/status/568469615682174976?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/"},"headline":"Your Girl Scout Cookies Might Be Late Because People Ordered Too Many Thin Mints","datePublished":"2015-02-19T19:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:00.858Z","description":"Sometimes, that's just the way the cookie crumbles","url":"https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3715419/girl-scout-cookie-thin-mint-shortage-delivery-delays/","name":"Your Girl Scout Cookies Might Be Late Because People Ordered Too Many Thin Mints"}}]}] ```