The Way to a Man's Heart

A group of friends went on a hunting trip. None of them wanted to be stuck with the cooking, so they drew straws to see who would go first and agreed that if anyone complained about the food it would be his turn to cook. The loser was a lousy cook, so he figured it was only a matter of time before he'd be replaced. But since nobody wanted to cook, nobody complained. The poor guy started to take pains to make the food bad, but still the others remained silent. Finally, after several days, in desperation he went into the woods and gathered up some animnal dung, which he baked into a casserole. That night, around the campfire, the hunters choked down the stuff and suffered, until one of them finally piped up. "This tastes like crap," he said. "Excellent though!"