Best Girl Scout cookies
Once a year, the folding tables appear outside grocery stores and the eternal debate reignites: which Girl Scout cookie truly reigns supreme? From the crisp caramel-coconut crunch to the classic peanut butter sandwich, every box has its devoted fans ready to defend their favorite to the last crumb. The stakes are high, the loyalties fierce — so cast your vote and help settle this cookie showdown once and for all.
What counts: Seeded with approximate figures where shown — the crowd's votes decide the order.
Do-si-dos▲ Rising
The other peanut butter cookie, sandwiched instead of coated, oat-textured instead of shortbread-crisp — the quieter, more old-fashioned cousin to Tagalongs. It never went viral, never got a rebrand, never needed one; it just kept showing up every year for the people who genuinely prefer a peanut butter sandwich cookie over a candy bar impostor. Respected, reliable, permanently mid-table.
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35Thin Mints▲ Rising
The undisputed king, moving so many boxes it single-handedly props up the entire GS cookie economy every February. There's a whole freezer-cult ritual built around them—straight from the icebox, snapped in half, that mint-chocolate crack spreading through your jaw—that no other cookie has ever inspired. Every other flavor on this list is essentially competing for silver.
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Samoas▲ Rising
Caramel, toasted coconut, and a chocolate stripe arranged in a ring so good it made 'coconut cookie' a flex instead of a warning label. The gooey caramel-to-crunch ratio changed what people expected from a mass-produced cookie, and it's the only real challenger that keeps Thin Mints looking over its shoulder. Renamed 'Caramel deLites' in some regions, but the internet never forgave the switch and still calls them Samoas out of loyalty.
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Tagalongs▲ Rising
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Lemonades
A shortbread cookie glazed in tart lemon icing that shows up mostly in Southern territories, which means half the country doesn't even know it exists — and that regional mystery is exactly its charm. It's the sleeper pick for people bored of chocolate who want something bright and citrusy to break up the cookie-table monotony. Underrated but under-distributed, which caps how high it can climb here.
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Trefoils
The plain shortbread that started it all, technically the OG Girl Scout cookie shape and the one nobody buys on purpose anymore. It's the box left sitting in the pantry while Thin Mints and Samoas disappear in a weekend, proof that heritage alone doesn't win a popularity contest. Still, someone's grandma orders these every year, and that loyalty earns just enough votes to avoid dead last.
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S'mores▼ Falling
An attempt to bottle campfire nostalgia into a cookie, existing in two rival versions depending on which baker made your region's box — one crispy graham sandwich, one chocolate-coated graham cracker. The identity crisis is exactly why it never fully breaks through: even fans argue about which S'mores cookie is the 'real' one. A fun idea that landed as a comfortable, if inconsistent, middle-of-the-pack player.
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-20Adventurefuls▼ Falling
The new kid, launched in 2021 with a brownie-inspired base, caramel drizzle, and a sea salt kick clearly gunning for Samoas' throne. It's genuinely good and proves the Girl Scouts can still innovate, but it's fighting decades of nostalgia and muscle memory that Thin Mints and Samoas have locked up. Promising rookie season, but it needs a few more years of showing up before dethroning the legends.
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This order is closer to right than any editor would've gotten.
Exactly the kind of argument the internet was built for.
The crowd is sleeping on the bottom half of this list.
- IInes LindqvistJul 28, 2026
Voted — and the gap between #1 and #2 should be bigger.