Cookies Are a Sometimes Food, My Rear-end!

I always kind of identified with Cookie Monster when I was growing up. He was blue, I liked blue. He liked cookies, I like cookies. He referred to himself in the third person often using me rather than I, me do that sometimes too.

As Sesame Street grew more and more liberal with that growing trend in public television and radio, Cookie Monster was forced to cave to the anti-sugar lobby. Since we have decided in America that our children are too stupid to figure out that Cookie Monster is a puppet and cookies are not something we need to eat all the time, and on top of that the stupid cookies just break up and fall out of his black felt mouth anyway, he has to now tell kids Cookies are just a sometimes food. Cookie Monster regularly eats good fruits and vegetables in addition to his cookie diet.

Place a plate of cookies and a plate of vegetables in front of a child and what will they choose? Well the blue puppet on TV said vegetables are good for me, and cookies are just a sometimes food, but he's just a stupid puppet and cookies rock! Put that same test in front of me and it's cookies every time.

I know this issue is old news, but I write it because I have faced this cookie issue recently. Today in fact. I came home to the smell of fresh baked cookies, of the chocolate chip variety. Now I try to watch what I eat, but 10 times out of 10 I find myself watching a cookie all the way to my mouth every time I walk past the plate.

So my point is: Screw you anti-cookie people. Kids are going to eat cookies regardless of what stupid PBS characters tell them to do. Let Cookie Monster eat cookies until he goes into a diabetic coma. In honor of my blue friend and in protest of the anti-cookie lobby. I think I'll go have a cookie right now.