Posted on 03/07/2024 10:21:23 AM PST by nickcarraway
The "Sesame Street" figure wants more cookies per dollar, while the snacker-in-chief bemoaned the loss of potato chips per package.
Beloved "Sesame Street" figure Cookie Monster lashed out at companies hawking their food wares at the same price but with less actual product — a practice known as “shrinkflation."
“Me hate shrinkflation!” the “Sesame Street” character told his 626,000 fans on X, the platform that used to be known as Twitter, on Monday. “Me cookies are getting smaller.”
It was a sentiment shared by the White House, which responded Monday, "C is for consumers getting ripped off."
And then President Joe Biden himself, speaking at a White House event Tuesday, embraced his cookie-loving blue pal and called out aggressive, profit-driven food companies.
“I’ll tell you what, I tell you who did notice, Cookie Monster. He pointed out cookies, or his cookies are getting smaller, paying the same price," Biden said. "I was stunned when I found out that’s what actually happened.”
The snacker-in-chief took particular aim at potato chip makers.
"Even as supply chains are back to normal, some companies are still not passing along the savings to their customers," he said.
"Many corporations are raising their prices, pad the profits, charging folks more and more for less and less. In fact, some of the small snack companies, you won’t — think you won’t even notice what they’re doing, when they charge you just as much for the same size bag of potato chips, only there’s a helluva lot fewer chips in it.”
Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking. It’s baffling scientists and leading to more research. Puppeteer Frank Oz, an early collaborator with Jim Henson, didn't endorse "shrinkflation" Tuesday, but he was outraged that his Cookie Monster character would even wade into such weighty issues.
"I’m shocked to see a news article on Cookie Monster talking about 'shrinkflation,'” Oz wrote on X.
He said Henson, who died in 1990, would never have supported “Sesame Street” characters’ taking such public stances because they "need to live in their own pure world. Not our world."
"What has happened to the integrity of the character and the integrity of Sesame Workshop?" Oz added.
Despite Oz's criticism, "Sesame Street" characters have long chimed in on various topical concerns.
For example, Elmo last month appeared on the "TODAY" show to promote mental health. And Biden backed Elmo, saying that: "I know how hard it is some days to sweep the clouds away and get to sunnier days."
*This is a news story, not an opinion piece.
Why doesn’t the cookie monster explain to the kiddies that “shrinkflation” was created by Joe because he wouldn’t stop spending.
Americans, including me, can benefit from a few more chips and cookies.
Every time I put on my clothes they shrink a little. I hate shrinkflation, too.
But I love 🍪 cookies!
F NBC. Treasonous propagandists the lot of them.
If I were Biden’s campaign manager, I would never want anyone mentioning anything close to inflation. It only serves to remind people of something that doesn’t reflect well on him.
Sounds like Biden has more problems than mental and poopy pants.
NBC using a couple of puppets for a news story. Isn’t that special!
The president is suddenly learning about this in an election year.
must get heavy for NBC carrying all that Biden water
Not to put too fine a point on it, but isn’t Biden committing a Hatch Act violation by using Government resources in electioneering for his own campaign? (public television is largely funded by the US Government, and it certainly flows to Children’s Television Network to support the production and broadcast of Sesame Street.
Of course, this concern could be alleviated if they allowed Trump to appear with Sesame Street characters, where they all explain how unfettered illegal immigration is harmful to America, and creates great risk to our citizens.
Those laws don’t apply to Democrats.
I sure you could edit your posts.
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