catch phrase and wig and the jokes are lame

I was cracking up over the comment Inder posted on my last entry, and was telling my mom about it. I wonder if it was some weird antisemitic thing making Popeye's catch phrase something that is so blasphemous? I'm thinking of those crazy cartoons from that era with Mickey and Hitler etc., etc. Anyway, I was telling my mom that "I am what I am" really was Popeye's catch phrase, and she says,

"I always thought it was 'I am what I eat.' "

I fell over laughing. She also recently told me that she thought Homer Simpson was a plumber. I thought that was pretty funny, too, although maybe it's weirder that the rest of us know that he works in a nuclear power plant.