Interesting. I knew immediately what the OP meant and remember seeing it a lot as a kid, but didn’t remember the little girl being black. Guess it was from before I learned to see color.
At least you didn’t try to retrace your steps by looking for freaked-out psychedelic Yellow-Submarine-esque landmarks, like in that other Sesame Street cartoon!
I got it. I could have sworn it had been carton instead of container though.
Anyone remember this one: it was a mini documentary about a girl who goes to visit her grandma on a farm and she picks (maybe) corn on the cob, tomatoes…and it ends up with her cooking and eating the veggies she pics. No songs, no animation. But I remember it and I’d love to see it again.
To this day, I can recite “Wanda the Witch” by heart.
My favorite, aside from the Ladybug Picnic, is My Martian Cutie.
ME, Claudius!
One Two Three Four Five SixSEVENeight NIIIIIIINNNNNNE TENNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!*
- Trivia - the “singer” for that bit was Grace Slick.
Coincidence! I was talking about this particular little story this past weekend.
I would be afraid to count the number of times I said, “And a stick of BUTTAH!” It was… more than once.
Ha! I had no idea that was her!
Interestingly, besides Grace Slick in those toons and the Pointer Sisters in the pinball toons, CTW also got Tom Lehrer (“Silent E” and “-LY”), Mel Brooks (various voicework in animated shorts), Joan Rivers (the narrator of “Letterman”) and Gene Wilder (Letterman himself) to do voices/songs on The Electric Company, too.
It is certainly all right to cry. That’s *Free to Be You and Me *(Rosey Grier, specifically), though, not Sesame Street.
Same 70s hip-and-happy-kids vibe, though.
Chef: Seven Root beer Flooooats!
(proceeds to fall down the stairs)
How about Fat Cat Sat Hat?
I remembered the character as a boy, but had the ethnicity right.
Same here. Weird.
“Thank you, Mommy.” I drive Mr. S nuts sometimes repeating this little ditty. He never watched Sesame Street, as it was after his time as a kid.
I always felt bad – really bad – for the chef falling down the stairs. And I still do. He was always so proud of his creations, and they always ended up ruined. 
There is a version with a boy, where he gets distracted by seeing other things on the way to the store.
Aha, I’m not the only one who thought it some kind of non-alcoholic version of Omar Khayyam. 
(Never seen “Sesame Street” either).
Me three. When someone mentioned that the character was a girl up top, I was all, “It was a girl?” I totally remember it as a little boy.