The joke Bogart makes at the mysterious warehouse about needing something sweet when he has "only" several other elements to the meal including 'paklava' is an intentional joke meant to prod the cluelessness of his opponents. The head writer (A.J. Bezzarides) was Greek, and has in his resume a number of good Greek-Middle Eastern espionage or intrigue stories with excellent local flavor - "The Angry Hill" among them). This kind of joke is the kind of thing Bogart did constantly to his sparring partners in classic noirs earlier in his career (kids these days get it instantly when you use the word 'snark,') and Bezzarides was just changing the cultural context.

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