Should Cookie Monster eat food besides cookies?
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Should Cookie Monster eat food besides cookies?
Cookie Monster is a cookie monster, which means he eats cookies. If you introduce other food into his diet, he's not the cookie monster anymore.
There were rumors that the Cookie Monster's name was being changed to 'Veggie Monster' but snopes has set the record straight that he will remain the Cookie Monster.
BUT, Cookie Monster doesn't eat just cookies anymore. Sesame Street wants to send positive health messages to kids and eating cookies isn't exactly healthy.
Now, a Cookie is a Sometime Food. So, is he the Sometime Cookie Monster? Why is it that we could handle the Cookie Monster eating cookies before but now we can't?
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Should Cookie Monster eat food besides cookies?
It's your turn to give your opinion about Cookie Monster. What I'm trying to get at here is if the Cookie Monster is still the COOKIE MONSTER if he eats other foods and is in pictures with smiling fruit.
Should Cookie Monster eat food besides cookies?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byNo, Cookie Monster is the cookie monster, so cookies are his food.
hunter says:
this is ridiculus! the cookie monster eats cookies. that's how he got his name. little kids are gonna be fat regardless. maybe what they should do is cancel the show, that way the little kids will go outside and play instead. do not blame it on the cookie monster, it's not his fault the kids are lazy. if he was advocating doing drugs or drinking, it would be different, but he's not. let him eat his cookies!!!
Posted May 21, 2009
Lauren says:
Seriously, let cookie monster eat his cookies! He's a fun character on Sesame Street adn he isn't doing harm to anyone. Yes, parents want their kids to eat other things other than cookies, like veggies or fruits, but kids are kids and they don't necesarily like those things. What about Oscar? They should at least give him a home right? Because that would be discriminating against the homeless. No, it wouldn't. Oscar *likes* to live like that just as cookie monster *loves* cookies
Posted May 12, 2009
freak says:
come on!
Posted May 05, 2009
steve says:
no
Posted April 24, 2009
rachel says:
ok, the name "Cookie Monster" He is a monster of the cookie variety, so its like LYING if he eats other stuff. :)
Posted April 23, 2009
djvbjbv says:
it is fine deal with it punks
Posted April 20, 2009
Rain says:
Listen. Cookie Monster is all about cookies, and trying to make him eat vegetables isn't going to change the "obesity problem" we have going on. Instead of watching that Sesame Street in front of the TV, why isn't your child exercising? I hardly think the TV itself is healthy, so why should *everything* on it be healthy, too?
Eventually, the little kids will realize what "cookie monster" really was and that he didn't always eat the healthy food. When that happens, what kind of message is it setting off? That you should give in to pressure to conform to the demands of the masses and become something that you are not?
For pity's sake, don't mess with the good things to "fix" problems we have.
Posted April 17, 2009
Lindsinpink101 says:
No way!!!! That's pathetic! We all grew up with Cookie Monster! My 1 year old daughter watches the show daily and I know that it's staying Cookie Monster. I just don't believe they need to tell little kids that Cookies are a Sometimes food! That's what parents are for!
Posted March 25, 2009
Claire says:
Aee you kidding me? This is about teaching your children control. If we don't do it at 2 then it is our own fault when they want a BMW at 16! This is like when Bert & Ernie had to leave the show because they were two men living together. People get a life!
Posted March 03, 2009
Babyproductsguru says:
Absolutely not! I don't want to live in a world where the cookie monster eats other food :-)
Posted February 24, 2009
Monster too. says:
Someone should slap the adults who came up with this stupid idea. What's next? Oscar moves out of the trash can into section 8 housing? They give Kermit condoms so that Ms. Piggy doesn't get knocked up? The put Waldorf and Stadtler in a nursing home, and give Animal Ritalin to calm him down?
Someone needs to give the idiot adults who came up with this idea a major league time out.
Idiots.
Posted January 28, 2009
audra says:
Well cookie monster is cookie monster.
And besides what kid wants too watch a cookie monster eat veggies...??
Posted January 25, 2009
nightwriter46 says:
But only if we make veggie cookies and disguise them with raisins and dried fruit pieces. No white flour just whole grain, no added sugar, and olive oil instead of butter. Add dark chocolate pieces and that's 2 mufas in the cookie. Should cover it. Now he's a more healthy cookie monster!
Posted January 12, 2009
Educator_With_a_Heart says:
Cookie monster can't seem to help himself, so give him the cookies! I am trying like crazy not to eat cookies so someone should be enjoying a nice, chewy, soft chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin cookie about now ;-) ooh..how about a snickerdoodle?
Posted January 11, 2009
chipflip says:
Cookie Monster subsists on cookies. His body is used to it. No press releases or news stories or documentaries I've seen made any indication he's having health problems.
Unless his doctor says he needs to adjust his diet, he should stick with what works for him. He's gone this far without trouble as far as I can tell. If his physiology thrives on that diet, he should stick to it.
As for Sesame Street, if Cookie Monster isn't eating cookies, then no, he's not Cookie Monster. And if Sesame Street is concerned about implicit nutritional messages, then they should pull the character. Changing his name or his diet is just going to confuse kids. Isn't it bad enough that we park on driveways and drive on parkways?
They could introduce a new character, the Veggie Monster, and show how much healthier and cooler s/he is than Cookie Monster, if they want to promote healthy diets. But leave Cookie Monster to his cookies.
Posted January 10, 2009
Spook says:
I can see what you mean and consequently have to go with cookies are his food
Posted January 10, 2009
InquiryStu says:
I suppose someone could make "carrot cookies" or somehow transform other foods into his familiar cookie form...
Posted December 29, 2008
rjaye says:
NO.
He's the COOKIE monster not the BROCCOLI or APPLE monster!!!!
Posted December 23, 2008
It's OK for the Cookie Monster to expand his diet.
zacharias says:
if he kept eating those fattening cookies, he would of surely died of heart attack even though i only like grover and elmo... and big bird sort of and snuffalu... i can't pronounce it...
Posted April 20, 2009
suzanbafford says:
Yes, we need our nutrition through whole foods, but we do all love a cookie every now and then...
Posted March 22, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda says:
Expand away but the Cookie Monster is about Cookies. My children love cookies and they love 'good' food because they were exposed to both. They were given nutritious food for meals and snacks; cookies were a treat!
Brenda
Posted January 18, 2009
LulzMobile says:
It's ruining a good character.
Kids don't not eat veggies cause Cookie Monster doesn't.
They don't eat veggies cause they suck. Let kids be kids.
Posted January 08, 2009
crazedmama says:
I suppose if he eats MAINLY cookies all day and throws in a few veggies here and there it would be alright? I don't know if it will make kids want to eat vegetables though??
Posted December 21, 2008
mbrownauthor says:
He should be adventurous and try other items besides cookies. But then again, he is "Cookie Monster" so....
Posted November 27, 2008
DreamEarner says:
Cookie Monster should eat nutritious food and be seen out playing and getting lots of exercise so that he will be a good role model and help prevent the childhood obesity epidemic we have in our country.
Posted November 11, 2008
daliborkas says:
It does not mean that our favorite character needs to eat only cookies (all the time). He is called that name because he reeeeally likes cookies, so he should continue eating cookies. However, it would be nice to always emphasize that cookie monster is eating first a healthy food and then at the end of the meal he has his favorites (this way kids develop healthy habits: first nutritious food and then small bites of a favorite desert)
Posted November 03, 2008
Tipi says:
Cookie Monster, has it hands-down! I did a test your fat weight recently, and my results were that, I'm starved! So, I have been eating cookies with my milk or coffee...yum.
Posted September 26, 2008
A_Frugal_Nana says:
Put him on a diet! He's bound to become a diabetec if he continues!
Posted September 18, 2008
szsoomro says:
Well, if Cookie Monster wants, he can include other things in his diet apart from cookies. In fact, I think he already does eat other things; he's called cookie monster because he likes cookies better than anything else and he just can't resist them. Kinda like me :S
Posted July 25, 2008
shynab56 says:
What makes it difference? Cookie must have all the choice for food.
Posted July 24, 2008
codfishlady says:
Yes. We all need to vary our diets. I know I need to do the same.
Posted July 12, 2008
athetop says:
Cookie Monster should continue to eat cookies but maybe add 'healthier' cookies and well a other healthy fun foods to his diet. Cookies that are made with healthy sugar, nuts, fruits and such...
Posted June 11, 2008
kab says:
Oh my, I see that others suggested a change of name. I could not take that!
What I liked most about Sesame Street was that they all had personalities and passions for things - characters on a lot of things today are missing the passion. Oscar was grouchy, Bert was nerdy, Telly was dumb, Ernie was silly, Big Bird was self conscious, and Cookie Monster was self indulgent. It taught kids that there are different kinds of people, flawed people, but you deal with what is there.
Posted June 01, 2008
kab says:
As I recall, Cookies Monster used to eat lots of things other than cookies...like letters, plates, his pipe, and anything else he could get his hands on! Sure he can eat fruit, as long as he doesn't stop eating cookies.
Posted June 01, 2008
alienflower says:
Well, Cookie Monster can have some blueberries. But no bananas because bananas are yucky. Just kidding. Except for the bananas. Uh, moving on, now...
I guess he can try some new good-for-you foods as long as he never forgets his first love - cookies.
Posted May 09, 2008
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Rachie wrote
1. The cookie monter is called the cookie monster for a reason
2. As he has eaten cookies for all his life his with probobly hate anything other than that
2b. His body may regect anything other than the ingredience to make cookies
3. He may become angry due to his addiction to cookies
4.'Veggie monster'? Who the hell came up with that !
Posted April 23, 2009
Pdaas wrote...
Cookie monster might be allergic to anything other than cookies...
Posted February 05, 2009
Poetryman wrote...
I have given up cookies. They are against my religion. Or something.
Posted January 23, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
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