Unsalted humor

In the time of the Romain empire, three brothers were headed to meet a great warrior in Rome, they had prepared food for their journey as well as bread and water, two week had passed since they had last come across a market, as they grow tired they decided to rest in a cave for the night to eat and regain their strength and to their surprise the only food left was a bag of potatoes and bread that would be unfortunately bland and tasteless whiteout salt, and no one would be able to eat it, the brothers then decided to think of a way to get salt for their food, one of the brothers suggested “I could go to the market but how will I know that you will not eat without me”, the younger brother said to which the older brothers answered “we promise you we will wait until your return”, the brother then decided to go and try his luck by going back to the market they had met two weeks ago, since it would take him four weeks to go and to come back, he took the little bread and water for his journey and left his brothers, who were eating the little bread and water they had, but as time passed they became less and less patient, until finally four weeks passed by, but the brother didn’t return yet, tired of waiting they decided to eat it despite the taste, as they picked up the spoon the younger brother showed up out of nowhere and said “aha I knew you wouldn’t be able to wait for me, I never left, imagine if I was really gone, you would have finished all the food by yourself wouldn’t you” ...!