Similar to how the Animal Crossing villagers used to insult your weight and steal your stuff in the first installment, Cooking Mama used to be a weird bully who would call you a bitch because you didn't peel three potatoes perfectly under an oppressive time limit.

While this does give the original Cooking Mama more of a personality than the sequels, I also don't like being stressed out while making pixel art spaghetti. I definitely prefer the defanged Cooking Mama of the 3DS era to the original "if I see one lettuce leaf break then it's a bronze medal" Cooking Mama.