Overall winner: 726 Manhattan Ave. (#7)

Runner up: 160 Nassau - "Polish Meat Market Deli" (#5)

Shameful loser: Steve's Meat Market (#6)

Taste winner: 726 Manhattan

Texture winner: W. Nassau Meat Market (#4)

Unknowable Other winner: 726 Manhattan

Kielbasas in order of average overall score

726 Manhattan (#7) - 19.9

160 Nassau (#5) - 18.7

Sikorski (#3) - 18.4

Staropolski (#1) - 14.8

Podlasie (#2) - 14.4

W. Nassau Meat Market (#4) - 13.2

W. Nassau Meat Market Raw (#4R) - 11.9

Steve's Meat Market (#6) - 11

Staropolski

Kielbasa #1 - 5 tasters

Overall: 14.8

Lowest: 10

Highest: 20

Taste: 5.3

Lowest: 4

Highest: 7

Texture: 4.5

Lowest: 3

Highest: 5

Unknowable Other: 5

Lowest: 1

Highest: 10

Comments:

"Not memorable"

"They all taste the same"

"Fine, but mustard made it inexplicably bad"

"Too salty but tastes really fucking Polish."

Podlasie - 121 Nassau

Kielbasa #2 - 7 tasters

Overall: 14.4

Lowest: 4

Highest: 21

Taste: 3.7

Lowest: a slash mark from someone who was too disgusted even to give this guy a number

Highest: 7

Texture: 5.4

Lowest: 2

Highest: 8

Unknowable Other: 2.4

Lowest: -2

Highest: 6, or someone else just put "rottenly delicious" which is not a number but which I am counting as a 6 because.

Comments:

"Not so much ♥"

"Fetid smell and taste of old lunch meat. Overpowering garlic - weak texture."

"Foul odor, fine flavor"

Sikorski

Kielbasa #3 - 7 tasters

Overall: 18.4

Lowest: 13

Highest: 30

Taste: 7

Lowest: 4

Highest: 10

Texture: 6.3

Lowest: 4

Highest: 10

Unknowable Other: 5.1

Lowest: 2 (xtra) (whatever that means)

Highest: 10

Comments:

"Excellent! Spicy and delicious!"

"Fantastic!"

"So far the best one"

"Tasty!"

W. Nassau Meat Market

Kielbasa #4 - 8 tasters, but one ballot I couldn't really use because "pork" is not a number, so 7

Overall: 13.2

Lowest: 8.5

Highest: 20

Taste: 4.7

Lowest: 3

Highest: 7

Texture: 6.6

Lowest: 3.5

Highest: 8

Unknowable Other: 3.3

Lowest: 1

Highest: 5

Comments:

"Bland, empty texture, left wanting more."

"Mustard improved this"

"My first, so maybe I was hungry?"

"Bob Evans"

That unusable ballot looked like this:

Taste: pork

Texture: chewy

Unknowable other: ham?

Overall: 7

W. Nassau Raw

Kielbasa #4R - 3 tasters

Overall: 11.9

Lowest: 3

Highest: 21

Taste: 3.6

Lowest: 2

Highest: 5

Texture: 5.5

Lowest: 1

Highest: 10

Unknowable Other: 4.2

Lowest: 0

Highest: 6

Comments:

"Texture like processed chicken fingers. Bland - watery"

"Raw really is better!"

"Flaccid, mushy, looks like chopped up penis"

"neat!"

160 Nassau - "Polish Meat Market Deli"

Kielbasa #5 - 6 tasters

Overall: 18.7

Lowest: 9

Highest: 24

Taste: 6.9

Lowest: 6

Highest: 9

Texture: 6

Lowest: 3

Highest: 9

Unknowable Other: 5.8

Lowest: .5

Highest: 8

Comments:

"Nice garlic balance, but lacks other desired subtlety"

"A bit too chewy, but decently flavorful"

"smokey"

Steve's Meat Market

Kielbasa #6 - 5 tasters

Overall: 11

Lowest: 5

Highest: 19

Taste: 5.8

Lowest: 3

Highest: 10

Texture: 3.3

Lowest: 2

Highest: 5

Unknowable Other: 2.3

Lowest: 0

Highest: 8

Comments:

"♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ smoky gets an 8! Delicious! Fine!"

"Initital taste good. Aftertaste questionable."

"Too rubbery"

726 Manhattan Ave.

Kielbasa # 7 - 7 tasters

Overall: 19.9 (or 1,447)

Lowest: 1

Highest: 10,020 (Scored it as a 30, kids - don't worry, your kielbasa still won.)

Taste: 7.6

Lowest: 1

Highest: 10

Texture: 5.6

Lowest: 0

Highest: 10

Unknowable Other: 6.7 (or 1,435.1)

Lowest: 0

Highest: 10,000!

Comments:

"lovely smokey flavor"

"Yes! Fine! Fine!"

"Nice garlic presence with stronger smokey overtones"

"Excellent! A fine kielbasa!"