Not for the squeamish … live octopus, the ultimate sushi.
(bet raincoaster would love some of this!)
the ultimate sushi
21 Wednesday Apr 2010
Posted in food & drink, video
21 Wednesday Apr 2010
Posted in food & drink, video
Not for the squeamish … live octopus, the ultimate sushi.
(bet raincoaster would love some of this!)
casa azahar 
Suddenly gagh – the Klingon speciality food got a new more concrete meaning…
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I would pretty much eat anything – I’m not the squeamish sort. But this isn’t squeamish, it’s vulgar cruelty. There’s no other way to describe it. Performance enhancing? What a flimsy excuse.
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Nasty. I’ll take my octopus grilled, thank you very much.
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What weerascal said. Vulgar cruelty about wraps it up. Not to mention disgusting.
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“Ultimate raw fish” baloney. Octopus are NOT FISH. Also, “alive” is not “raw.”
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Yeah, pretty nasty. Though I don’t know that it’s any more cruel than other ways of killing things we eat – one chomp on the head would do it, as we all know the tentacles keep moving long after an octopus is dead.
And yes, the National Geographic should know better than to refer to octopus as fish.
But things that are alive usually tend to be raw, or at least one would hope so.
When I see things like this I am always amazed at what people will do based on bizarre beliefs. Anyhow, I was happy to subscribe to the National Geographic YouTube page this morning – looks quite interesting.
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I love octopus but I would never eat it alive. They are also highly intelligent creatures.
Funny that this should be on your blog today. I happened on the Korean Animal Protection website, a few minutes ago. Hopefully, they will be able to do for “live food” what they are currently trying to do for dogs and cats.
http://koreananimals.or.kr/english/ (Caution disturbing images)
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That’s horrifying. Octopus are intelligent, curious creatures. Just because they don’t have fur and aren’t ‘cute’ doesn’t mean that eating them alive is okay. I bet those people wouldn’t eat lamb alive. Or chicken.
Sometimes people really revolt me.
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Now I have to make a comment that has been generated by a conversation I just had with Jim.
He points out that probably 99% of the octopus that are eaten in the world are eaten alive — by other sea life. We humans are the only animals who cook their food before eating it. As he so cogently said, if we were like the rest of the predators out there, when we had a hankering for a steak we would go out and bite a cow and hope we could dodge it when it kicked.
I always found it disturbing, but not unnatural, that Smokey and Bonnie and my other cats had no qualms about beginning to eat a rabbit before it was actually dead.
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It seems extremely cruel to me, I’d eat just about anything, but think I’d have to draw the line at something that was still alive
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It’s gross and trendy in Korea; they do this with cuttlefish, too. It’s either just something that started as a bar bet OR it’s a reaction to restaurants that don’t serve things fresh.
I wouldn’t eat it, but I do remember my mother’s words, “If you go on a vacation to a different country and you don’t eat ONE thing that disgusts you, you haven’t ever really left home.” For her it was sheep’s eyeballs. For me it was fried bugs. But I wouldn’t eat live octopus. I wouldn’t put something in my mouth if I thought it was still in a condition to fight back.
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