This crossed my mind while my wife and I were at Sesame Street Live in Bridgeport with our two kids last weekend. Cookie Monster, easily my favorite character. But does he have a name? He does! His first name is “Sid”. Apparently it was revealed on a 2004 episode of Sesame Street.
The other thing I wondered was does he only eat Chocolate Chip cookies? I ended up discovering something even more mind blowing. Cookie Monster has never actually eaten a cookie on the TV show. They always used rice cakes with brown dots on them to get that crumbs flying affect when he eats them. Makes sense right? But crazy.