I think it's because it's worth two points in Scrabble and he forgets to use it. Put favour on a double word score sometime, it's brilliant basically.
Oh, please don't say that out loud. You'll have a thirty minute lecture on the Pilgrims and their survival and do they really expect me to believe the people they dubbed 'savages' and all but killed off were bringing them goods and sitting down to a meal with them? Whatever, I quite like pie.