Food taster to the king

It seems like Bin Ladin's cook was between a rock and a hard place.  To summarize, he didn't know about 9-11 until afterwards. He fled Bin Ladin and was captured elsewhere and taken to Guantanamo where he has been tortured for 8 1/2 years. He went on trial in a military tribunal, secret of course, and because he was a "loyal" employee (cooks have to be trusted said our government) he gets 12-15 years and they aren't going to count the 8 1/2 that he has already spent as time served.  Here is the story in all its glory.

I think of something that Jacques Pepin once said on his program. To paraphrase, it is an immense responsibility to cook for someone else; not only for your family who trusts you to put good food in front of them but for someone who pays to eat your preparations.  That is real pressure. The family forgives a bad meal. The customer simply doesn't come back.

I suspect that if Bin Ladin got sick or died due to this cook's cooking, the cook would die a thousand deaths and none of them nice. 

There is an old kitchen joke about the fellow who was food taster to the King. Everyone hated the King so he was in constant danger of poison, hence his job was full of risk at every meal.  The pressure was horrendous. He did notice however, that the King never ate his green veggies so the taster, when commanded to eat a few bites before each meal, wound up always eating the greens reasoning that no poisoner would put the bad stuff on the veggies as the King's dislike of them was known far and wide.  One day the taster took his bites and just fell over dead.  Poisoned.  

A manhunt was launched and they found the culprit.  When tortured as to why he wanted to kill the King he replied "Kill the King? Are you crazy?  I've hated the food taster since we were kids".