Admit it. You've wondered it. You've spent nights achingly questioning life's biggest mysteries, one of them being what the heck is Cookie Monster eating?
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November 27, 2023
I did an investigation on your behalf. You're welcome. https://t.co/O8mVVnfbEX pic.twitter.com/PbPjZIbiJT
NYT:
“If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”
[The baker] has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” [the puppeteer] said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”