This is an interesting one. This “fool” is a parody of a joke that is said when someone is fasting. I find the idea of fasting funny because it is a natural event that most of us are involved with. It has been done to death, so I have no issue with the idea of having a little fun with it. But I have a few issues with the jokes themselves.
I can think of a few reasons a fast is funny. For one thing, we are all familiar with the “fasts are good for you” idea. Even though I don’t have the slightest idea what it means, I know that it’s a joke. But the idea that someone who has fasted is somehow less than a person who ate a pizza, or even more than a person who has a glass of wine, is ridiculous.
Even if a fast were somehow more than a joke, and there were some who were more successful than others, it would still be ridiculous to make fun of people who fasted. As a matter of fact, if there is anything more ridiculous than saying that people who fast are worse than people who have a glass of wine, I don’t know what it would be.
Funny enough, my dad used to tell me stories about these fast guys. He used to make fun of the guys who ate a pizza or drank a glass of wine. He would then laugh about how these people didn’t know how to get a decent meal, or how they would be so hungry after drinking a glass of wine that they would need to eat something before they could go to sleep.
It was also a big deal for him to tell me that these guys would go to great lengths to make sure that they never had to eat something before they could go to sleep. I guess the point is that if you try to force yourself to eat something, it probably wont go as well as you would like.