There are two very different things inside Meat & Cookies (Cookies N Cream x Meat Breath). Girl Scout Cookies, the specific Cookies clone that the dessert wave was built on, not the family generally. And Meat Breath: Thug Pug's garlic-and-gas plant, and the one everyone knows them for. Thug Pug built a reputation on savoury and gas at a time when everyone else was selling dessert, and that choice is visible in the parents they pick.

Written this way, Girl Scout Cookies is the mother and Meat Breath the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Girl Scout Cookies. The Forum cut, which most of the modern dessert category descends from. It traces back to generally given as OG Kush crossed to a Durban line; the Forum cut was an S1 found in bagseed and circulated through the ICMag forums around 2010. CSI publish a caution that their Cookies hybrids can express instability under some conditions while still producing plenty of good plants.
• Father: Meat Breath. Thug Pug's garlic-and-gas plant, and the one everyone knows them for. That one comes from given as Meatloaf crossed to the Mendo Breath F2 male, Studly Spewright. Mendo Breath behind it is OGKB crossed to Mendo Montage, so the mutant Cookies line runs right through this. The other parent, Meatloaf, is genuinely obscure - some accounts call it a Girl Scout Cookies phenotype with an unusual savoury nose, but that has never been confirmed and should not be stated as fact. Meat Breath and Thug Pug's other OGKB crosses started travelling in 2015.
• Why these two. They are not variations on the same idea. They pull in different directions, and that spread is what makes a pack worth hunting through rather than just growing.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Neither parent is subtle, and the cross has nowhere quiet to go.

• The Aroma. Sweet cookie dough and vanilla cream with a faint mint over an earthy Kush base from the Girl Scout Cookies side, against savoury and pungent - garlic and roasted notes against sharp chemical diesel, with earth, musk and a sweet vanilla-caramel undertone from the Mendo Breath side from the Meat Breath side.
• The Taste. Doughy and sweet with vanilla late, finishing earthier up front, turning to earth, nut and spice with diesel behind it through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• Two different harvest dates. Nine to ten weeks for Girl Scout Cookies, eight to nine weeks for Meat Breath. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.
• The smell is a negotiation. Sweet cookie dough and vanilla cream with a faint mint, over an earthy kush base on one side against savoury and pungent - garlic and roasted notes against sharp chemical diesel, with earth, musk and a sweet vanilla-caramel undertone from the Mendo Breath side on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Build. On the Girl Scout Cookies side: tight, heavy, dense flower rather than an open frame. On the Meat Breath side: dense purple-tinged flower under a wet, greasy frost. Select early rather than trying to train your way out of it.
• Opposite ends. Girl Scout Cookies is reported as even rather than racy; settling; Meat Breath as heavy; caryophyllene leads its terpene profile. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Girl Scout Cookies is tight, heavy, dense flower rather than an open frame. Meat Breath is dense purple-tinged flower under a wet, greasy frost.
• Vegetative Phase and Stretch. Shape the plant before the flip. Correcting a frame in week six is harder work than setting it in week two.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Girl Scout Cookies runs nine to ten weeks, Meat Breath eight to nine weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Girl Scout Cookies as even rather than racy; settling.
• The Body. Meat Breath is reported as heavy; caryophyllene leads its terpene profile, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Seeds from Thug Pug Genetics. The Breath line is the thing: a single Mendo Breath F2 father, run across everything worth running it across, and named with more humour than most. Authentic Thug Pug Genetics.