What’s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s, favorite Girl Scout cookie?
“Isn’t everyone’s Thin Mints?” Meghan says over Zoom, her eyes glimmering conspiratorially as she adds: “I prefer them crumbled on top of vanilla ice cream.”
Indeed, Thin Mints are regularly among the top-selling flavors of the $800 million worth of cookies that Girl Scouts across America sell annually, followed by Samoas and Tagalongs. Director Alysa Nahmias chronicled the six-week selling spree for the documentary “Cookie Queens,” of which Meghan, a former scout, is an executive producer.
“You know what the sleeper hit was?” Nahmias chimes in from the other corner of the screen. “The Lemonade are amazing. It’s an iced lemon cookie, and it’s a really large cookie. You get your money’s worth with that one.”
Money, or rather, economics, is a key theme of “Cookie Queens,” which follows four Girl Scouts between ages 5 and…