Cookie Monster's Australian food truck tour

Cookie Monster's tastes have broadened. The blue guy used to be all about chocolate chip cookies and ONLY chocolate chip cookies. He did take a bite at the moon one time but that's only because he thought it was a cookie too.

In 2018 Cookie Monster is all about tacos, toasted sangers, pasta, apples and generally healthier eating. Cookie Monsters can't survive on cookies alone.

The new season of Sesame Street features a segment called Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck where Cookie and his muppet mate Gonger (head chef at The Furchester Hotel) operate a food truck for kids in the neighbourhood.

During each episode, Cookie and Gonger receive a call from a child wanting to order lunch from their operation. The pair set about making the order but Cookie Monster invariably eats the key ingredient (he's still working on self-control) and they have to leave the Street to find more. This means trips to a real-life apple orchard, pasta factory, cranberry farm and dairy.

The goal of the truck is to teach kids where their food comes from and promote healthy eating in the process. It's pretty great.

Cookie Monster was in Australia last week with Sesame Street pal, Abby Cadabby. The pair asked if Good Food could take them on a tour of Sydney's food trucks so Cookie could learn some new recipes and we were only too happy to oblige.

Cookie and Abby visited the no-waste champions at the OzHarvest Food Truck, pizza-slinging nice guys Happy as Larry and American food legends The Nighthawk Diner. There was even time for a cookie at the end.