"Ate a box of Thin Mints. Didn’t get thinner. I don’t think they work” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. The popular “Thin Mints” Girl Scout Cookies aren’t diet products, of course, but there are jokes.
“@tootlelOops idk why the have to call them thin mints...I’ve eaten boxes and boxes & didn’t get any thinner...in fact quite the opposite! 
” was posted on Twitter by Jamie Thompson on January 24, 2012. “I ate thin mints allllll day but I didn’t get any thinner. Hahahahahahaha. #dadjoke” was posted on Twitter by Macey on February 26, 2012.
“I ate a box of thin mints, didn’t get thinner. I don’t think they work” was posted on Twitter by bri 🧀 on March 13, 2017. This wording probably was popularized by an image.
Wikipedia: Girl Scout Cookies
Thin Mints Thin, mint-flavored chocolate wafers dipped in a chocolatey coating.
Twitter
Jamie Thompson
@Lvjaybe
Replying to @tootlelOops
@tootlelOops idk why the have to call them thin mints...I’ve eaten boxes and boxes & didn’t get any thinner...in fact quite the opposite!
7:59 PM - 24 Jan 2012
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Macey
@littlegirlmacey
I ate thin mints allllll day but I didn’t get any thinner. Hahahahahahaha. #dadjoke
11:19 AM - 26 Feb 2012
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💵 💵 💵Millionaire Gymmie 💪🏿 💪🏿 💪🏿
@millionairegym
LOL! RT @JoshuaMHood Bought “thin” mints from girl scouts. Didn’t get any thinner.
5:55 PM - 13 Mar 2012
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Jason Rauber
@warmlunch
I ate four boxes of thin mints and I didn’t get any thinner.
2:54 PM - 29 Sep 2012
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bri 🧀
@bribby21
“I ate a box of thin mints, didn’t get thinner. I don’t think they work.”
12:09 AM - 13 Mar 2017
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McKenna Brielle
@ward_kenna
I ate a box of thin mints & didn’t get thinner. What the hell.
6:17 PM - 13 Mar 2017 from Ogden, UT
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Cierra ☮
@Thelifeofcierra
Ate a box of thin mints. Didn’t get thinner. FYI they don’t work.
7:10 PM - 13 Mar 2017 from Tampa, FL
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Inspire Uplift
January 17, 2018 ·
Ate a box of thin mints, didn’t get thinner. I don’t think they work.
7 November 2018, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), pg. 4:
I ate a box of thin mints, and I didn’t get thinner. I don’t think they work.
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Randy Griffin
@RandyRGriffin1
Ate an entire box of thin mints… didn’t get thinner. I don’t think these are working #girlscoutcookies
1:58 PM - 23 Jan 2019
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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