Beet, beet, sugar beet, beet, sugar beet, sugar beet-beeeeet... ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

You know what?

Beet, beet, sugar beet, beet, sugar beet, sugar beet-beeeeet! That's what!

Everyone loves classic 'Sesame Street', and this '70s-era segment was one of the all-time most memorable:



That entertaining little clip was filmed at a sugar beet farm and mill in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and shows sugar beets being grown and made into sugar. It's replete with a kid angrily throwing a sugar beet plant down on the ground near the beginning.

At the end of the segment, a Walter Cronkite look-alike extracts a handful of sugar out of a large machine that looks like either a washing machine or a toilet. He licks his finger and happily declares, "Sugar!"

When I figured out that the only word in the English language that rhymes with 'sugar' is 'booger', I came up with a parody in which the man at the end picked his nose, licked his finger, and said, "Booger!"

Is this clip still shown on 'Sesame Street'? One has a right to hope so, but the outlook appears grim in the cutesy 'Sesame Street' of today.