#VIDEO: Ready for Girl Scout cookies? KONA’s official ranking & where to find a box

Those favorite cookies you can only get once a year are back! Girl Scouts will start selling cookies at local grocery stores in the Mid-Columbia Basin starting on Friday.

Eight varieties are available including the classic Thin Mint, Samoas, Tagalongs, the Trefoils or shortbreads, Do-Si-Dos, Savannah Smiles and the Gluten-Free Toffee-tastic. The newest flavor rounds out the eight, Girl Scout S'mores.

"It is a cookie that celebrates 100 years of girls selling girl scout cookies, and it's time honored with the flavors of a campfire treat we all know and love, S'mores," says Mindy Thorp with Girl Scouts Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.

Thorp adds each S'mores cookie is stamped with one of five different girl scout outdoor badges, but because it is made with special ingredients it is an extra dollar, $6.00 instead of the $5.00 like the other cookies.

Now, she says it is not all about the cookies, the program helps girls, their troops and the military. With the girls it teaches them about five key skills, goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. Thorp also encourages every customer to ask the girls what their goal is and what they hope to use the money for, many troops use the money for camps.

20,000 of those boxes that were bought last year were donated to U.S. Military members. Thorp says if you would like to donate some money for "Operation Cookie Drop," it goes to send boxes of cookies to troops overseas.

Booth sales start March 24th and go through April 14th. You can find the closest location to you at the Girl Scouts website.

If you are not sure which ones to buy, the Newsradio 610 KONA crew and our friends at KEPR-TV did a "taste-test" to help you out, you can find the full video below and rankings.

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