Fact: The Best and Worst Tasting Girl Scout Cookies

Our art director, Cecilia Ziko, hosts an annual Girl Scout Cookie-Tasting Party, after which all the cookie-tasters fill out a card ranking the cookies in order of tastiness. The party happened about three months ago, but Ms. Ziko has only just finished the complex and gruelling calculus of the popularity calculations, and these are the results:

Having recently cleaned off my desk and located a calculator that is not also a cellphone, I am pleased to announce the exciting results of the 6th annual girl scout cookie taste test party:

In 8th place [is the basically] unanimously disliked sugar free chocolate chip cookie.

At 7th place, despite its commemorative 95th anniversary redesign, is the shortbread cookie with the chocolate coated bottom, the all about.

6th place goes to the traditionalists' favorite, the trefoil.

Rounding out the bottom half of the table in 5th place is the uncontroversial but decidedly dry do-si-do peanut butter sandwich cookie.

Taking 4th place, despite the declaration by my senior-ranked Girl Scout cousin that "the lemon ones suck," is the alps evoking lemon chalet cream cookie.

Before announcing the top three cookies, I need to preface by saying that this was the closest and most surprising top-three cookie outcome in the six-year history of the taste-test party.

In 3rd place, a national favorite that hasn't won the taste test since 2006 is the thin mint.

In its highest ranking ever, edging out thin mints by a third of a point is runner-up--the tagalong.

And barely hanging on its title for the second year in a row is the winner, by seven hundredth of a point, the samoa.