I'll take a different angle. He's a man, he probably forgot about the pitch in until the very last minute. then he confessed to his buddy he forgot and he buddy guilted him into bringing something, and the buddy said, hey, my wife made these really terrible cookies/pie/casserole and I can't stand even the smell of it in my house. So, the buddy says to your husband, come on pal, we'll being doing both of us a favor if you just agree to take this really horrible pie/cookies/casserole, my wife feels better because she things we like her cooking, your wife doesn't have to be bothered because you forgot about this until last minute and no one will ever know and we'll both he heros.
men! geez!!