Catch-221970

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
Yossarian, I want you to do something for me. [removes item from small bag] I want to serve this to the men. Taste it and let me know what you think.

[Yossarian takes a bite]

Yossarian:
What is it?

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
Chocolate-covered cotton.

Yossarian:
What are you, crazy?

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
No good, huh?

Yossarian:
For Christ's sake, you didn't even take the seeds out!

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
Is it really that bad?

Yossarian:
It's cotton!

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
They've got to learn to like it!

Yossarian:
Why?

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
Look, I saw this great opportunity to corner the market in Egyptian cotton. How was I supposed to know there was going to be a glut? I've got a hundred warehouses stacked with the stuff all over the European theater. I can't get rid of a penny's worth. People eat cotton candy, don't they? Well this stuff is better - it's made out of real cotton.

Yossarian:
Milo, people can't eat cotton!

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
They've got to - it's for the Syndicate!

Yossarian:
It will make them sick! - why don't you try it yourself if you don't believe me?

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder:
I did - and it made me sick.