“If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?” is a joke that has been included in many collections of one-line saying. “If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?” has been cited in print since at least 1999.
A similar joke that was said in the movie The Addams Family (1991) is “Are they (Girl Scout cookies) made from real Girl Scouts?”
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If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?
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By Marvin Rubinstein
Rockville, MD: Vinmar Press
2000
Pg. 73:
If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, what are Girl Scout cookies made of?
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30 March 2000, Daily Globe (Ironwood, MI), Porcupine Press, pg. 7 banner:
If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout Cookies made out of?
16 April 2000, Paris (TX) News, “Free Advice” by Albert Nichol, pg. 10C, col. 6:
If peanut butter cookies are made with real peanut butter, what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?
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The Land Where My American Mother Died—Palermo, Sicily
By Bennett Lear Fairorth
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.
2003
Pg. 224:
“If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, what are girl scout cookies made out of?”
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Jokes, Quotes, And Other Assorted Things
By Stephen Motway
Xlibris Corporation (Xlibiris.com)
2011
Pg. 328:
If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?
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