I'm finding how all this Japanese history affect Oddworld very interesting.

I always wondered why Abe lost a finger in Abe's Exoddus, and why in AO, there are 2 different types of Mudokon Pops. It's all linked to the Japanese. The reason Abe lost a finger was because of the meat packing sub-classes in Japan, where they were looked down upon the people. There was something about one of the workers losing a finger and now everytime someone gives you the "four fingers"...

... they are referring you as one of these lower-class meat workers. It's all rather ridiculous if you ask me but ...
Anyway, the Japanese forbid ANY cartoons or anything with people who have four fingers ...
Walt Disney has to pay 5M every year to Japan to keep the Mickey Mouse cartoons over there without him having to lose a finger like Abe.

The story behind the Mudokon Pops, I'm not too sure about, but all I know is that the Japanese were too sissy to handle the severed head of a mudokon on a stick, so they made it into a green paddlepop with a smiley face on it ...