Posted by The Immortal Grimace at dialupc172.farg.uswest.net on March 19, 2001 at 19:41:18:
In Reply to: Episode 4 of the Clerks Cartoon posted by pi on March 19, 2001 at 19:36:59:
It's a joke. People tell them because sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they go over peoples heads, too.
Another possiblity is that they initially went for something really offensive (fried chicken/watermelon), and had to pull it back a little bit.