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Aug 13 2004 3 Comments

O for octopus

Maybe it’s me that’s a bit squeamish. Or perhaps I’m just a picky eater. But I can still remember the shock of seeing this in a supermarket refrigerator.

tako.jpg

Despite being a bit surprised, I convinced myself that after being cooked it would look a lot different. The same way in which English food generally looks nothing like the fish or animal it came from. Needless to say I was wrong. Very wrong.

Cooked octopus looks exactly like it does when it’s alive. Except of course it doesn’t move so much, and its, err, been cut into smaller pieces. Something like this.

tako02.jpg

Fancy a bite?

Categorized: Food and Drink, General

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  1. テッド says

    8/13/2004 at 7:26 am

    O_O

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  2. charsa says

    8/14/2004 at 2:49 pm

    isnt that gonna be tough to chew?

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  3. JMichael says

    8/14/2004 at 6:48 pm

    My mother-in-law served something that looked like onion rings. Turns out that it was squid. Cross sections of the head deep-fried, I suppose.

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