When they took out the vendor gossip options from WoW, I cried a little because it ruined the joke about the gnomeish pie vendor in Ironforge that only sold cherry pie. Tastes so good, makes a grown gnome cry.
I have more than a handful of friends that collected Garden Gnomes in the late 90's and early 2000's. It was a meme at the time.
"Make a Gnome man cry" is something I'm stealing and will pass on to my pals at viewaskew. It's clever and I can see my pals putting a silicone tear on their Garden gnomes with the tag being "Gnome man cry".
And yeah, he was just this lone little Pie Vendor who would walk a circle, selling Cherry Pie and nothing else. When I started playing, when you clicked on him, he would talk about his cherry pie (using a lyric)... but eventually they took out those screens to "speed up" the game and it just became a guy selling cherry pie and not being funny at all.