A post on the X account for the widely-beloved “Sesame Street” character Cookie Monster drew responses from the White House and several Democratic lawmakers. The post lamented shrinkflation, the term used to refer to businesses shrinking the size of their products without decreasing the price.
“Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” the Cookie Monster post declared. “Guess me going to have to eat double da cookies!” another post added.
President Joe Biden has previously called for companies to stop engaging in shrinkflation, describing the practice as a “rip off.”
The White House X account responded to the Cookie Monster post by tweeting, “C is for consumers getting ripped off. President Biden is calling on companies to put a stop to shrinkflation.”
“Total corporate jagoff move to rip off Cookie Monster,” Democratic Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania tweeted.
“We hate it too, Cookie Monster. And it’s not just cookies! Greedy corporations are making lots of things smaller without cutting prices. We’re working to stop them — no one should be getting richer off smaller cookies!” Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland declared.
“Me too, Cookie Monster. Big corporations shrink the size of their products without shrinking their prices, all to pay for CEO bonuses. People in my state of Ohio are fed up — they should get all the cookie they pay for,” Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio declared.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts responded, “@SenBobCasey and I have a bill for that.”
This is not the only time the Biden administration has responded to a “Sesame Street” character on X this year. In late January, Biden’s @POTUS X account retweeted a post from the Elmo account.
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