Today the local paper features an article about Amish Friendship Bread. If you compliment the baker after sampling this stuff, s/he is obliged to gift you with a bagful of starter that requires 10 days of labor-intensive cultivation, along with stern instructions to pass along three portions of starter after you've baked your bread. For me, that would put the end back in friendship...but maybe that's just me. Have any of you encountered this wacky ritual?