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The Octopus Is Not a Crafty, Soulful Genius. It’s Dinner
Octopus fandom is out of control and blind to the evidence. By Daniel Engber.
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Eat Me! That is a funny lead pic!
But seriously, I was raised by octopuses. If we had been able to live out of water, you would be writing eight different languages in eight different hands, but alas, here we are as circus tricks, battling our way out of jars and protecting ourselves with clamshells.
Sigh, the Universe is not fair.
Honestly, if you like chewing on rubber bands and pretending it's good for you, and tastes good...go right ahead and eat it!
Yes, I've eaten them. Baby Octopus is common fair where I live.
Scientific fact: there isn't enough sake in the world for me to be able to eat tentacle. Every part of an eel, if you're buying the drinks, sure. Nor lampreys, because that's gross. Familiarity breeds contempt.
Not for want of trying, mind you. Every experiment conducted so far has shown I'm not about to even try eating cephalopod.