Sounds like you had the fortune of meeting a Shangrilain. They only eat twice a year, and it is custom for the dessert to be a condemned prisoner from the village. They are known to fuel their enormous appetites by smoking generous amounts of hashish ( root word: assassin, named so because of this eating ritual). You should have asked him if he had any carpets for sale, they are deft craftsmen producing the most valuable carpets in the world.