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Girl Scouts scored another hit in their annual cookie campaign Friday, selling 25 boxes at the Clemmons office of Congressman Virginia Foxx. Sensing a vulnerable target, the scouts tested the new congressman's sense of cookies.

“We decided to go down and see how she would do,” said troop 844 leader Kristi Fragapane. “She did pretty well. Everybody in the office bought cookies.”

The Girl Scout troop and Brownie Troop 466 both visited the office.
Together, they will sell 1,284 boxes, but they are only a fraction of the Girl Scouts here. There are 34 troops in the Lewisville and Clemmons area.

The cookies arrived Saturday. The scouts had been taking orders for most of the boxes. Others will be sold at grocery stores on weekends.

The most popular cookie: thin mints.

“It has been that way as long as I've had anything to do with it,” Fragapane said.

Caramel delights and peanut butter patties are other favorites. There are eight types of cookies.

Selling them is not a problem, the leader said. The only question the girls usually ask: How many boxes do you want?

“Everybody likes Girl Scout cookies. My youngest daughter went through the neighborhood and had 90 percent sales. You can sell them pretty easily.”

Her Girl Scout troop will use the money to pay for a trip to New York . The Brownie troop is planning to go ice skating and camping.