Maybe history and folklore/jokes get mixed up...here is a joke I heard long
time ago about priests and traveling.

Once, when priests traveled from small towns to small towns, he stopped at
this woman's house who always hosted him upon his arrival. She was poor, but
always had a plate of beans waiting for him. He would think these beans were
the best beans in the world.

When he would come back to his "hometown", he told the cook about the
wonderful beans he had tasted in the other village. Well the cook tried to cook
beans in many different ways, but the priest insisted they were not like the
ones he had tasted in the village.

So the cook went to see this famous woman who made these wonderful beans.
When the cook asked the woman how she made the beans, she was surprised to
learn that the recipe was exactly as her own. She could not understand, and
exclaimed as much.

The woman laughed heartily. She said the real secret is that he would
travel so far to get to her home, that he was VERY hungry. Naturally, he thought
the beans were the best because he was so hungry.

So the cook went back home, and had not cooked for the priest for a full
day. The next day, the cook made the beans, like usual. The priest exclaimed:
you got it...you found the secret recipe.

Esperanza
Chicagoland area

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