OK - I really don’t have anywhere else to post this, so I guess you guys get to hear me unload!
Did you hear that they are changing Cookie Monster’s diet? He’s going to start eating healthier because kids are getting fat.
Does anyone understand that the reason kids eat unhealthy is not because of Cookie Monster, but because of irresponsible parents? I mean, it’s not the KIDS who are buying the junk food at the grocery store!
Yet another step in the abdication of personal responsibility. :mad:
Carrot monster? LOL! :laugh:
This has to be a late april fools joke… Please tell me the’re joking.. please… 
You’re kidding?? 
:eek: My that is sad indeed
*ME WANT COOKIE!
If this is true, no more seasame street for my son lol
Cookie Monster Rocks…but Grover was always my fav!
Dont blame the creators of cookie monster.Blame the stupid parents that feed their kids unhealthy food :rolleyes:
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OK - I really don’t have anywhere else to post this, so I guess you guys get to hear me unload!
Did you hear that they are changing Cookie Monster’s diet? He’s going to start eating healthier because kids are getting fat.
Does anyone understand that the reason kids eat unhealthy is not because of Cookie Monster, but because of irresponsible parents? I mean, it’s not the KIDS who are buying the junk food at the grocery store!
Yet another step in the abdication of personal responsibility. :mad:
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Advertising works. Also, there is no denying the power of televised characters to influence the behavior of the general public. Anyone remember Madonna and how every teenage girl started to dress like her?
To say this is an abdication of personal responsibility is a gross oversimplification. In short, parents respond to what a child wants. If you disagree with this then you have never been in a grocery store with a crying 4 year old who wants CoCo Pebbles.
Further, usually after a child gets past the age of 6 parents lose control over about 2/3rds of their daily meals. Children take money to school and buy breakfast and/or lunch. The parents hope they are buying the meatloaf but in reality the kid is probably getting two orders of fries and a chocolate milk.
In the end, why not show that the cookie monster is evolving? Taking up good habits is a good thing. It seems like you are trying to hold on to a little of your own youth and cookie monster changing means that you are no longer that innocent 7 year old.
I’m all for the vegan monster. Next stop - Ronald McDonald eats a salad on TV.
:eek: They cant do that i loved the cookie monster when i was younger
COOOKIE COOOKIE COOOOOOOKIE!!!
DD
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I read this post and immediately got irritated.
“No way!”, I said, “It can’t be so!”
Luckily, I have an inside source at Sesame Street…I’m not saying who, but the source is as reliable as they come & furry.
No need to panic…
Cookie Monster is staying Cookie Monster…he is just apparently going to be widening the spectrum of his eating habits.
Which is a good thing…right.
Cookies will still be his drug of choice, but he is going to be learning that there are other things to eat…
like carrots.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/4/6/4/cookieMonster_thumb.jpg
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I read this post and immediately got irritated.
“No way!”, I said, “It can’t be so!”
Luckily, I have an inside source at Sesame Street…I’m not saying who, but the source is as reliable as they come & furry.
No need to panic…
Cookie Monster is staying Cookie Monster…he is just apparently going to be widening the spectrum of his eating habits.
Which is a good thing…right.
Cookies will still be his drug of choice, but he is going to be learning that there are other things to eat…
like carrots.
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/4/6/4/cookieMonster_thumb.jpg
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:cheer: YAY COOKIE MONSTER FOREVER :cheer:
Maybe its just in USA theres all the fat folks :rolleyes:
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Maybe its just in USA theres all the fat folks :rolleyes:
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Thank the American lifestyle for that …
Lets get things straight here. Not ALL americans are fat and not ALL live whatever you may think is the “American Lifestyle”.
*Goes off to posts in the Dinner Thread my greasy Hamburger dinner I have planned…
DD
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This has to be a late april fools joke… Please tell me the’re joking.. please…
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Sadly, no. I posted the rant after hearing the report on NBC nightly news
Very much agreed.
I do disagree, and I have been in a grocery store with a crying 4-year old who wants CoCo Pebbles. I have a 12-year old daughter, a 10-year old step-daughter (we’ve been together about 6 years), and a 3-year old son.
As a parent, it is my responsibility to make sure my children eat properly and don’t eat junk. Just because a child cries for something doesn’t mean you get it for them. I mean, what if that 4-year old wanted to play ball in the middle of a busy street? Would you give in just because the kid was crying?
First off, most school districts that I know of publish a menu. In elementary school, they serve that specific menu. Get the menu, look at what the child is eating, and also teach your child healthy eating habits. And what about packing a healthy lunch?
Oh, and if you actually make breakfast and dinner for your kids, you only lose one meal a day, and that’s only on school days.
BTW, your example is yet another example of the abdication of personal responsibility by parents for the raising of their children to the state. But that’s another rant - maybe I’ll go ahead and start that one later 
Actually, it means that I want to hold on to the innocence for my children. We seem all too eager to take their childhood away from them anymore. (another rant thread, I suppose?)
:laugh: my son is arguing with my wife right now - he says that cookie monster has to eat cookies 
I seem to remember he always ate other stuff, like letters, numbers, plates, etc…
If that’s the case, then it must just be a publicity stunt - Cookie Monster has always eaten other stuff, and I clearly remember my daughter watching episodes where he ate his veggies first, then had the cookie.
NP with me, as long as he goes berserk for cookies! My son would have a fit otherwise!
As for the “Fat Americans” comment - well, you won’t hear any major argument from me. I think we have become quite lazy as a society, which is one major contribution to the problem. There are others, but that’s a whole other discussion. Hmm - maybe this will be off-topic day for me…
That’s ok - I like discussing that sort of stuff with you guys. At least the discussion tends to be intelligent, even when we disagree.
One final word, though:
COOOOOKIE!!!
cookie monster, never heard of it, maybe because i’m euro? 
what comes to nutrition, eat only what u consume, at least 1/3 of your plate filled with veggies, drink lots of water, should be pretty easy 
Whouldn’t it be a Caroot monster?
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cookie monster, never heard of it, maybe because i’m euro?
what comes to nutrition, eat only what u consume, at least 1/3 of your plate filled with veggies, drink lots of water, should be pretty easy
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Thank God that beer contains water 
Problem with parents today is that they are lazy and give their kids fast food and therefor creates a need for the kid to get that tasty food again. When I grew up I got fast food like once per week tops and I didnt complain, since healthy food can taste good also
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Thank God that beer contains water
Problem with parents today is that they are lazy and give their kids fast food and therefor creates a need for the kid to get that tasty food again. When I grew up I got fast food like once per week tops and I didnt complain, since healthy food can taste good also
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woot!
knuckles… what happened to u? u turned into the sun! 
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woot!
knuckles… what happened to u? u turned into the sun!
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yea Im wondering the same thing! :eek:
Is it because of my absence from EF the last days? It have to be! Im a bad bunny, bad influence!
Damn… I hate all this political correctness crap! Put a carrot and a cookie down in front of a kid… whaddya think the kids gonna snaffle first???
Death to the dirty Carrot Monster!!! :mad: