Storks

I don't really understand storks. Are they for pickle delivery or for baby delivery?

It is well known and documented that storks bring expectent mommies and daddies their little bundles of joy after nine months of eager anticipation. That is the way it has been for a long time now and that is probably the way it is going to stay. I'm a little hazy on how the stork gets the order to deliver a baby, and how he knows where to deliver it, but it is best to not ask how the sausage is made, if I might make such a culinary reference.

Now, I would like to know why Storks are also associated with pickles, specifically Vlasic pickles. The stork is the mascot of the Vlasic company and his commercials have him delivering pickles. I mean, can you be any less imaginative?

Besides, what makes the stork such a good deliveryman in the first place? They don't seem to be particularly strong birds, so could a stork realistically carry a 7 to 13 pound baby, along with all the necessary documentation, the distance from wherever the stork starts out to the hospital? Plus, they don't seem to be very swift flyers. Sure, in the delivery biz, one needs reliable delivery, but the customer also needs speed. Storks just don't seem that fast. Plus, the Vlasic stork is really old. He wears old man glasses. I don't think he is up to the task of delivering babies or jars of pickles.

I'm going to have to go and think about this whole situation for a while, I guess.