Eating Live Octopuss, would ya ?

monosharp

Hey lads,

In Korea at the moment and had some of the local cuisine last weekend. I had silkworm larvae and then I had some live octopuss.

None of the other foreigners here I know will try it so I'm just asking, would ya ? What you think of it ?

p.s > Heres a vid

Damn you youtube!

Can a mod please embed this properly ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BbcSxM2ng0

KingLoser

Watching too many movies?

grats, I wouldn't do it.

c - 13

I'd probably give it a blast.

I love whole baby squid so i'd reckon that might taste similar.

Bit cruel I suppose.

monosharp

KingLoser wrote: »

Watching too many movies?

grats, I wouldn't do it.

Believe it or not you can actually eat an octopuss like that here. Haven't tried it yet :P

Am I just unusual in that I in no way think its disgusting ?

KingLoser

monosharp wrote: »

Believe it or not you can actually eat an octopuss like that here. Haven't tried it yet :P

Am I just unusual in that I in no way think its disgusting ?

A little bit.

But this is THE INTERNET.

I'd say the movie made a tourist buzz and only foreigners eat live ones. If it doesn't sick ya out, I say go for it.

kaimera

Hmm..I dunno..

Worst I've tried was sheep brains

monosharp

KingLoser wrote: »

A little bit.

But this is THE INTERNET.

I'd say the movie made a tourist buzz and only foreigners eat live ones. If it doesn't sick ya out, I say go for it.

Nah man, its actually the opposite way round.

Feck all foreigners eat it here, I've been here 7 months and only know 1 other who has tried it.

Koreans eat it all the time, well a lot of them do. I know a girl and its her favourite food, she always wants to have it.

Its like the dog (also had that), some people like it and some don't.

elmolesto

I would, I always give a try to local delicacies.

Dave!

Hell yeah, I'm eating a live octopuss sandwich right now!

wyk

I dated a Korean girl...that was sort of like eating live octopus...

WYK

Sherifu

I think i'd pass out.

MooseJam

dude thats gross, not a hope in hell

2-ShortDa5foot5

Cruel as fcuk. Poor creature! As for the dogs.... Those eastern cultures are fcuked up. :mad:

WindSock

Octopi are very intelligent. I wouldn't eat one alive or dead.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Octopus, yay.
Dog, nay.

c - 13

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

Cruel as fcuk. Poor creature! As for the dogs.... Those eastern cultures are fcuked up. :mad:

Eating a live animal is cruel yes.

As for the dogs if they are bred in human conditions for this purpose and killed in as humane a way as possible what the problem ? (they may not be in general but you get the piont i'm making here)

We in the western world see these animals as pets, others dont - I fail to see the issue.

Look at it this way - Hindi Culture recognizes the cow as sacred, yet we eat tonnes of them in various formats, is it fair for those people to call our culture ****ed up as a result ?

Holsten

Not a chance.

humanji

OP, would you give a second thought to biting into a sheep while it was munching on some grass?

I don't like octopuss, so wouldn't eat it dead or alive, but I think the eating it alive is kind of sick.

monosharp

humanji wrote: »

OP, would you give a second thought to biting into a sheep while it was munching on some grass?

Difficult to do but apart from that probably not.

I don't like octopuss, so wouldn't eat it dead or alive, but I think the eating it alive is kind of sick.

Well in fairness hes been chopped up into 20 pieces. Even though hes still alive no doctor on earth is going to save him so its not me eating him thats killing him.

MooseJam

anyone see the clip of the Japanese girl sticking a live octopuss up her ...

Rb

Looks disgusting, wouldn't touch it.

2-ShortDa5foot5

c - 13 wrote: »

Eating a live animal is cruel yes.

As for the dogs if they are bred in human conditions for this purpose and killed in as humane a way as possible what the problem ? (they may not be in general but you get the piont i'm making here)

We in the western world see these animals as pets, others dont - I fail to see the issue.

Look at it this way - Hindi Culture recognizes the cow as sacred, yet we eat tonnes of them in various formats, is it fair for those people to call our culture ****ed up as a result ?

I see where you're comin from.

My opinion is based on the way I was brought up. We've always had dogs as pets and it hurts me to think there's so much cruelty. Same goes for cows, I was brought up to see them as a source of food and not a pet.

At the same time, I think (And I'm not alone) that dogs are closer to humans than cows. I think they are capable of establishing relationships and have more feelings, which cows do not appear to have.

This is a whole other debate though which I'm not about to get into.

Back to the original point, eating animals live is horribly cruel, I can't think of one benefit of it! Especially Octopi which are said to be very intelligent creatures.

Sure why not drag Fungi out of Dingle bay and lash him up on a plate live? :mad:

seraphimvc

baby squid!!lovely!!

but octopus?no...i guess...

Who me?

No way , just thinking about it turns my stomach.

monosharp

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

Back to the original point, eating animals live is horribly cruel, I can't think of one benefit of it! Especially Octopi which are said to be very intelligent creatures.

Sure why not drag Fungi out of Dingle bay and lash him up on a plate live? :mad:

Heres an interesting perspective for you. Most koreans cannot stand lamb. They think we're gone in the head for eating it.

humanji

monosharp wrote: »

Difficult to do but apart from that probably not.



Well in fairness hes been chopped up into 20 pieces. Even though hes still alive no doctor on earth is going to save him so its not me eating him thats killing him.

You seem to underestimate the advances in modern medicine!!! I've nothing wrong with the killing of it, it's just that hacking up something while it's alive just seems distastful. I know I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, so I'm basing it all on how I'd feel.

monosharp

humanji wrote: »

You seem to underestimate the advances in modern medicine!!! I've nothing wrong with the killing of it, it's just that hacking up something while it's alive just seems distastful. I know I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, so I'm basing it all on how I'd feel.

Yeah but its yummy.

If it makes people feel better, a few koreans die everyyear from eating it because the octopuss ends up fighting back and choking the people.

Degsy

WindSock wrote: »

Octopi are very intelligent. I wouldn't eat one alive or dead.

Just make sure you finish the job..otherwise they'll come looking for you!

ART6

Not really relevant to this post, but a couple of years ago I was in Italy on business and went out to lunch with the people I was meeting. One of them was a huge guy that the average brick s******e would have felt cowed by. He ordered a complete octopus for his lunch (I assume it was cooked although it didn't look like it). He devoured the thing and then ordered another one. I have suffered from indigestion from sea food ever since.:)

Carrigart Exile

raw sea urchin, tasted like fishy semolina

kowloon

Saw someone boil a cat alive in a market a few years back (not here!).
Made me pickier about what I eat when I'm abroad.

Jello

Wouldn't go near it.

Had snails and frog's legs in Paris so that's about my limit.

KnifeWRENCH

I'm very unadventurous when it comes to food.
I wouldn't touch dead octopus, not to mind a live one!
I wouldn't eat an animal that was still alive, that seems very cruel.

Aisling(",)

i might eat it if it was all cooked and dead and what not...prefrebly in batter but if my food can watch me eat it then its a HUGE no no!

xsiborg

tried battered squid while in corfu a couple of years back, it was cut like battered onion rings, twas absolutely tasteless and
felt like i was chewing on rubber bands after the batter had gone down.

so eventually i tried swallowing. unfortunately i had cut the ring with my teeth and it got caught in my throat halfway up and halfway down.
much to my dismay and my OH's embarrassment, the gag reflex kicked in and while turning blue between coughing and choking i made a rather quick
exit from the outdoor restaurant around the side to get sick.

by this time the manager (a man of rather signifigant girth!) had seen what was happening and through teary eyes my first thought upon seeing him coming was
"oh christ dont let him near me" thinking heimlich manoeveur! :eek:

fortunately for me i recovered in time and he was really nice about the whole thing.

to this day my OH still slags me about it whenever we go foreign...

Black Swan

Not dead or alive! Been to Seoul a couple of times, and it's a grand place, but no octopus thank you!

Ross_Mahon

Were at the top of the food chain, an Octopus would eat ya if he could! I think its good to be adventurous when eating food, so you can say "I ate that before"

flanum

that octopus wasnt alive, it was just the nerves twitching in the hacked pieces. ive often been out fishing/camping and slapped a perch or trout onto the pan while its nerves are still twitching.
a bit like this eel preparation....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03glKL5wF8

KBarry

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Not dead or alive! Been to Seoul a couple of times, and it's a grand place, but no octopus thank you!

+1
I've seen them eating the live ones in Japan. Cruel tbh, and octopus tastes like a bit of rubber anyway.

I would have liked to try dog in Seoul but my Korean friends seemed a bit embarassed about the dog eating thing.

monosharp

KBarry wrote: »

+1
I've seen them eating the live ones in Japan. Cruel tbh, and octopus tastes like a bit of rubber anyway.

I would have liked to try dog in Seoul but my Korean friends seemed a bit embarassed about the dog eating thing.

Dogs delicious man.

MoominPapa

Send the clip to Anthony Bourdaine - he'll probably adopt you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwj0FYN0Qg

monosharp

flanum wrote: »

that octopus wasnt alive, it was just the nerves twitching in the hacked pieces. ive often been out fishing/camping and slapped a perch or trout onto the pan while its nerves are still twitching.
a bit like this eel preparation....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03glKL5wF8

U can get sannukji (live octopuss) where they don't chop it up. Basically you wrap him up with chopsticks and bite chunks out of him or if its small, swallow him whole.

2-ShortDa5foot5

That's horrible, who does this?! So cruel!

Degsy

I found to my cost that if you attempt to eat a live monkey it will bite you.

DEmeant0r

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

That's horrible, who does this?! So cruel!

We eat and survive at the cost of something else, get over it!

2-ShortDa5foot5

DEmeant0r wrote: »

We eat and survive at the cost of something else, get over it!

U can eat and survive without being unnecessary cruel.

Degsy

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

U can eat and survive without being unnecessary cruel.

Ah but being cruel is FUN!

thefinalstage

The **** is wrong with you op!?

2-ShortDa5foot5

thelastangryman wrote: »

The **** is wrong with you op!?

Ya, seriously, someone lock this thread please.

c - 13

2-ShortDa5foot5 wrote: »

Ya, seriously, someone lock this thread please.

So someone should lock the thread because people disagree with the OP ? OMFG peoplez haz difrnt opinionz ? OH NOES !!ONE!!

TPD

I dont particularly want to try octopus or squid, definitly not while its wriggling.

I would be interested in trying human meat though. Is that weird?