These past few weeks, it feels like you can’t swing a stick without hitting an open box of Thin Mints, one of the most famed confections offered in the Girl Scouts’ annual cookie sale.
In related news, you may not be able to button your jeans right now, either.
According to statistics gathered by data scientists at Under Armour from their food-tracking app MyFitnessPal, we are in the middle of what could be considered Girl Scout Cookie Season.
In numbers provided to The Post, utilizing three years of data obtained from the app’s more than 100 million users, tracking of Girl Scout cookies begins to spike in early March, peaking in mid-March and falling to near invisibility once again by mid-April, save for those tiny blips when your clever pals rediscover the stashes they stored in their freezer.
According to MyFitnessPal user data, Thin Mints are far and away the most popular cookie, with almost twice as many instances of tracking as the runner-up, Samoas. (In fact, Thin Mints, along with Do-Si-Dos and Trefoils, are the only permanent guarantees in the Girl Scout cookie lineup. Watch your back, Samoas.) Thin Mints are actually something of an unstoppable force: they were tracked 6.8 percent more this year than the last. Click here to continue reading.
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