

This book was made into an animated TV special in 1973 in the TV film Dr.The pig-loving Save The Pigs Community started a petition to change the book's title, and story, and drawings, to " Green Eggs and JAM", and wanted someone with similar handwriting to draw a jam jar, to take out all references to eating pork.Cerf bet Seuss that he did not write a book with on 50 words from the aforementioned list.

Seuss' previous book The Cat in the Hat, used only 223 words based off a list of 348 required words for beginner readers to learn. The origin of Green Eggs and Ham stems from a bet Seuss had with his publisher, Bennett Cerf.This book features a self-centered fellow and a persistent, happy-go-lucky counterpart to him as a theme which would be continued in Fox in Socks, and It might be Knox.The story ends with Guy (who has eaten the entire dish) and Sam becoming friends, with Guy happily saying, "I do so like green eggs and ham. When he finds that he actually likes the dish after-all, he announces that he would eat them in all of the places and with all of the animals mentioned earlier. I do not like them anywhere." Finally, in exasperation, Guy vainly samples the dish just to get Sam to "let him be". While Guy is followed by Sam-I-am, Sam continues to ask him if he would eat that food in or on various different environments and locations (house, box, car, tree, train, dark, rain, and boat) and with various animals (mouse, fox, and goat), but Guy still angrily refuses, regardless to the circumstances by saying, "I do not like them here (this place) or there (the other place). However, Guy-Am-I angrily tells him he hates the food while furiously saying, "I do not like green eggs and ham! I do not like them Sam-I-Am!" He continues to repeat similar responses all throughout the story as Sam persistently follows him.

Sam-I-Am pesters his friend Guy-Am-I (who's originally unnamed) to eat a dish of green eggs and ham.
