Savor that box of Samoas in the back of your cupboard ... it may be your last.

An email sent Wednesday to members of Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington announced the council is switching cookie bakers in 2025.

That means all the cookie recipes and most of the names will be different. Samoas will be called “Caramel deLites” and Tag-a-longs will be “Peanut Butter Patties” and both will look and taste different. Even though Thin Mints will still have the same name, the taste and texture will change.

“This decision was made after careful review of our council’s needs,” council CEO Shannon Evers said in a video statement.

Evers called the switch a “strategic alignment and growth opportunity.”

She also emphasized that ABC Bakers will be “a reliable partner.”

Neither Evers nor the council said why the switch was necessary. The council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Girl Scout cookies are baked by two bakers in the U.S., ABC Bakers in South Dakota and Little Brownie Bakers in Kentucky. ABC Bakers is a subsidiary of Interbake Foods and Little Brownie Bakers is a subsidiary of Keebler.

Until now, Little Brownie Bakers has been the supplier for Oregon’s one Girl Scout council. Little Brownie supplies many councils across the country, notably the entire West Coast.

The rest of the country gets cookies from ABC.

The bakeries make similar cookies, but they are not the same. Both make Thin Mints, for example, but ABC’s Thin Mints are thinner and crunchier.

And when it comes to the other cookies, there are some major differences, beginning with the names. Little Brownie has Tagalongs, Trefoils, Do-si-dos and Samoas. ABC has Peanut Butter Patties, Shortbread, Peanut Butter Sandwich and Caramel deLites.

Beyond the fact that Little Brownie has much more whimsical names, the cookies themselves are all different recipes.

According to the blog Taste of Home, Caramel deLites have “a higher cookie-to-caramel ratio.”

Additionally: “Samoas also tend to have more coconut, along with chocolate coating resembling dark chocolate, rather than the milk chocolate drizzle found on Caramel deLites.”

Which is better? Next year, you can decide for yourself.

– Lizzy Acker covers life and culture and writes the advice column Why Tho? Reach her at 503-221-8052, lacker@oregonian.com or @lizzzyacker

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