As anyone who has perused the annual Girl Scout cookie catalog will know, each box of cookies is priced identically. To the casual observer this seems like a fine deal because a box of cookies is a box of cookies right? Absolutely not. According to the Girl Scouts themselves the most popular cookie is the Thin Mint, to no surprise from anyone. But if you remove sales from the equation and actually talk to people I believe you will find that Samoas are the preferred Girl Scout confection, taste wise. So why then, are Samoas not the highest selling? Well I think it's a simple case of economics. Samoas have at best 15 cookies in their package, Thin Mints have about 32. Your option here is a small amount of excellence or a crap-load of pretty good, and being as we are in America the masses have spoken and quantity trumps quality any day.
I personally prefer Trefoils, you get almost 40 per box.
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