Quote Originally Posted by D.One View Post
And don't forget the previously unnamed MontyPithoneske polearm shopkeeper who ended up being Jiminy, Haley's cousin.
The movie snacks were not significant to the plot, and neither was Jiminy being the shopkeeper. The Pilgrim explained it perfectly (well, the part about the random God is less applicable here):

Quote Originally Posted by The Pilgrim View Post
Yep. A callback joke to the readers who think it was significant, maybe. But, relevant to the plotline? Not in a comic were the outcome of characters is a result of their actions and choices, not of a random God planting a random ilness on some arbitrary desert gas station that only appeared in a bounus comic.