Lovelyish

WELL thats only mildly terrifying….

Ew.

O_O

I’m told by my friends that you can feel the squid’s tentacles sort of grab onto your throat as you swallow it, and that that is the best part/fun of it. 

@chichibanban@xanga - that is totally why I dont feel bad for anyone who chokes and dies from eating stupid shit like this.

This is the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.

It’s disturbing, alright.

that’s animal cruelty.

Then again, I’m a victim of animal rights abuse. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYPuLnAscA

lol and vegans are saying we are eating rotting flesh? i think not. its still aliveim kidding. its still very disturbing

I’ve heard of worse. Nothing beats eating raw brains from a monkey that’s still alive.

So that’s a great thing to see right before I’m going to eat dinner. *shudders* 

This is beyond fucked up. I wonder if the movement is caused from the salt in soy sauce burning it. Just another sick thing we humans love to do.

whatttttttttt

They cut it’s head off, it’s dead. DEAD. It’s not animal cruelty. This is dumber than the video of the octopus being chopped up, it was still moving, but it was wait for it.

DEAD.

Try coming up with something intelligent.

Oh God why did I watch this?

The head has been removed, meaning that the squid is dead already and this is just the head. This dish is not done out of cruelty, it is a quirk discovered while cooking that someone decided was worthwhile enough to market and sell as a “Dancing squid.”

And everything in that bowl looks freaking delicious.

This is torture. But it’s not like the large meat industries in the US are any better. Look up “KFC cruelty”. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Pretty sure that’s 1) horrifying, and 2) torture.

That is disturbing and really disgusting… 

i wouldnt eat it either!

That is absolutely disgusting.The squid head is cut off, so they pour soy sauce over it to sting the squid into “dancing”!??! >_>

hmm…I must be the only person that finds that octopus kinda cute when it’s dancing.

I’ve eaten raw octopus, it was moving, but of course, it was dead.  and no, I couldn’t feel the tentacles sucking my throat.

It’s already dead -_______-

I thought of Squidward from spongebob squarepants I can’t eat foods where the eyes are there staring at you and ”dancing” around in agony because the head was severed and soysauce poured on the wounds. they must’ve never seen justin timberlake’s dancing if they are so easily amazed by this type of “dancing.”

@bAbiiExxPiNay@xanga - seriously!! My dad once watched his friends eat a live monkey’s brain… 

… well that was funky . just because the head is chopped off doesn’t mean that the thing is dead . you can cut a chicken’s head off and it doesn’t die instantly + i’m just not used to my food dancing and shit before i put it in my mouth . that’s just not my culture but if i was raised elsewhere then i’m sure that my perception would be different so i think that everyone needs to chill out and be respectful of one another good grief .

oh yeah, and another thing . why in the hell is this on lovelyish – there is nothing lovely about this ish -_____-

That is so mean. I don’t like this.

lol ohh Westerners always seems to be amazed by Asian “delicacy”

Once a squid has had its head chopped off, IT’S NO LONGER ALIVE. The ‘dancing’ comes from the sodium in the soy sauce reacting with the flesh of the squid. (It’s reflexive. Similar to how dead lizards twitch.)

With that said, I’ve had this before and IT IS DELICIOUS.

Thats not horrifying at all.

@irene408@xanga - your dads friends are fucked up. anyway, seeing/hearing of things like this just makes me lose hope in the human race. like “oh hey lets find more fucked up ways to eat/abuse the animal we already put through hell raising” -__- im so disgusted.

@phuck_diz_shiz@xanga - thats no delicacy, thats just straight up animal cruelty to a whole new level.

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - yeah, seriously.  my dad stopped hanging out with them after that because someone who has no respect to another living creature won’t have any respect for anyone else.

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - did you see that  I put delicacy in quotations ?
To you it may not be a delicacy but to others and their culture it is.

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - culture or not, its still fucked up.

@irene408@xanga - thats awesome, good for your dad. yeah people like that just have no morals at all it just makes you think what kind of sick person they really are

This is so sick.

The head is removed.  Are you people insane?  The head is REMOVED.  You can’t live without a head, much like EVERYTHING else.  Jesus.

That said, it’s still kinda creepy/I’m not eating it.

I would never eat anything raw/live/still-moving-but-not-really-alive. Haha, not bold enough to try.

I wouldn’t eat that, but it was very interesting to watch.

@turnyalightsdownlow@xanga - it depends on how you define death.  when a living thing is beheaded, the other organs are not immediately dead because there’s still nutrients and oxygen.  if the resources are not depleted, it may still be functional (organ transplants maybe?).  however, the pain receptors’ signals doesn’t make it to the brain to be interpreted, so it’s not really animal cruelty/torture.  so yea, it depends on how you define death.

Nasty! Enough said.

I’ve actually had squid before in salad. It’s pretty good. The squid isn’t actually alive when it’s time to eat this particular dish.

@kuroshitsuji@xanga - This is the most intelligent response I’ve seen so far for this post.Thank you for posting that.

isn’t this animal cruelty?

THE SQUID IS DEAD.

The legs are moving as a result of the sodium-containing soy sauce. Muscles contract in response to signals from neurons, which transmit signals around the body by means of a series of sequential influxes of sodium across the cell membrane into the neuron. With this excess of sodium from the soy sauce, it’s like a simulated signal activating the muscles.

see: http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/12/21/how-twitching-frog-legs-work-a-little-gross-yes-but-fascinating/
reposted from the comments on the video

Can people calm down and look it up before freaking out about something?

That seems really mean. And  don’t want to have to push my food back into a bowl while it’s trying to get out… ew.

@turnyalightsdownlow@xanga - =totally agree with you !

Oh, please. It’s dead. Stop making this out to be a big deal when it’s really not.

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - …the squid is DEAD.

nobody’s forcing anybody to eat it, so chill out.
 American people get so grossed out by other culture’s food
when their cuisines aren’t exactly the most appetizing thing on earth, either.
Some of the crap you guys eat are way grosser than a dancing squid.
and p.s. raw squid is delicious :9
although I never had one raw to THAT extent, but I’m guessing it tastes the same.

@bAbiiExxPiNay@xanga - Yeeeah, I’ve been told about that one.

I don’t like my food still moving. In fact, the first time I ate something with squid in it (seafood soup) I had to do so with my eyes closes so I wouldn’t syke myself out. I like squid and don’t mind the texture, it just looks weird. It dancing wouldn’t help.

That’s really sad

It’s dead. I wouldn’t eat it, because it doesn’t look good to me, but it is already dead when they eat it.

@catastrophic_surveys@xanga - oh really because it doesnt look dead to me. and everyone else that watches the video. just because the head is chopped off doesn’t
mean that its dead, you can cut a chicken’s head off and it
doesn’t die instantly

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - you can only feel pain because of the pain receptors in your brain, and the same goes for animals. Without a brain, you have no way of detecting pain. The squids head has been cut off, and therefore, it cannot feel pain. I don’t understand how this is any more cruel than killing an animal in a slaughterhouse.

@catastrophic_surveys@xanga - which is why im a vegetarian.

@zzzzzulavalle@xanga - ah, that’s fair enough then. It’s just when people eat meat but say this is cruel, I find it all a bit hypocritical, but if you don’t eat meat anyway, then that’s understandable

i would try it.

@catastrophic_surveys@xanga - yeah i get what you mean, haha. its like people who say they dont wear fur because its cruel yet they eat meat everyday

So when people think something’s alive, they think it’s gross and won’t
kill it to eat/think it’s cruel, but when it’s dead and packaged up
nicely it’s different…? I’m surprised this freaks people out more than McDonalds o_o The fast food industry is far more terrifying and cruel than an already dead squid that still moves.

wtf u people eat calamari right? same shit

after watching how they actually do it on another video after that they chop it up into other little pieces and it still wriggles like that.

Watch the other video and i mean.. yeah it is a bit weird but I’d probably try it if offered as a guest somewhere. I’d eat bugs too. Tell me roasting live bugs isn’t the same? The way we prepare food in the US is appalling as well.

that is totally awesome… and making me hungry

@ionekoa@xanga - haha john =]

Okay so it tried to climb out of the bowl O___O.  Yeah but it’s dead people. DEAD. You ever  youtubed frog legs in salt? Same diff. Look at that and then come talk to me.

Disgusting.

Whether it’s dead or alive, it’s revolting.

at least it’s dead…

KILL IT WITH FIRE

What, none of you have had Calamari?  This is only two steps away from that…

@RazielV@xanga - BUT IT’S DELICIOUS NOM NOM NOM.

Score, I would so try that.  But then again, I would be willing to try many things, and I already know I like sashimi and squid (although the squid I had was jerked, and smoked, I haven’t had it sashimi style yet)

DESTROYYYYYY

DESTROYYYYYYYYYYY…

IF THAT FREAKING CRAWLED ONTO MY PLATE I’D BE WHIPPIN’ OUT MY LAZER GUN!

KILL IT! KILL IT WITH MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!!

everyone needs to get off their ethnocentric high horses.  this is a japanese dish.  this is part of japanese culture.  my sister ate a living octopus once because she lives in korea and it’s not uncommon to do so there.  i was grossed out at the thought, but hey, people need to try seeing these things through the eyes of the culture they happen in.  in our culture some things are perfectly normal and acceptable but in other cultures those things would be shocking.

OHMYGODKILLITWITHFIRE

Isn’t the little guy the cutest thing you ever did see? Now we get to eat him!

There is something seriously deeply demented in the Japanese psych.

@posterofagirlxx@xanga - @bakayarodane@xanga - Tolerating a dead animal dancing on your dinner plate is not a sign of multicultural tolerence, it’s a sign of insanity.

 I kid you not, that’s exactly how my face look past the entire video. OMG.

@aN_amAYzInG_storrII@xanga - Great, now I pretty much have to go watch frog legs, ’cause you got me all interested, lol.

Oh. That’s gross. I know it’s dead. That does not mean I think it’s pleasant to watch.

@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace@xanga-
There are even people in Japan who may echo the same sentiment as you do about it being cruel. However, there is a certain tolerance to it because Japanese people like fresh fish.  It’s not the fact that a dead thing is dancing that makes it appetizing.  If anybody thought of it like that, of course nobody would want to eat it.
The freshness of the fish is what people like, especially when it comes to raw seafood.  Fresh= higher quality.  This “odori-don” is therefore a specialty dish that can only be eaten in certain restaurants or eaten amongst people who are able to catch/buy such fresh squid.  Whoever thought about it just wanted a unique method of showing the liveliness of the squid and obviously people were going to want to try it because it was something different. Since most people in the states don’t eat much seafood, it’s harder to understand the concept. 

You may be entitled to your opinions, but you should think twice before calling a whole ethnicity insane, that’s just pure ignorance.

First, I’m going to have nightmares. Lol!
Second, The head is cut off! You don’t stay alive very long after you’re head has been off. Maybe about 5 seconds but no more than that. It’s not animal cruelty.

Sooner or later that thing’s gonna be dead. So in other words IT IS DEAD!

@bakayarodane@xanga - Since the poor squid is dead there is no cruelty. It’s just sick to make an animal carcass dance around on one’s dinner plate.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - Stupid shit? Just because it isn’t retarded western chicken nuggets it’s “stupid shit”? That’s one of the most bigoted things I’ve ever heard.

@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace@xanga - It’s still alive. If it were dead, it wouldn’t be reacting that way. The squid is reacting to the salt in the soysauce, much like a snail to table salt. If the snail’s alive, it’ll squirm- dead and it would just dissolve. Same here. The exception is when you cook squid on a hotplate, then it appears to dance when it’s really dead because it’s shrinking in the heat. This is different from that, though. :/

@IniquitousxAffliction@xanga - Thank you! It like when you kill a spider or cockroach and the legs still move. The nerves spasm in a dead body for a little while.

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - It’s not reacting to the salt. There’s another video where they push it flat and it does the same thing. It’s dead, it just has some nerve endings firing off. Much like a spider or cockroach’s legs will move after it’s killed.

are we running out of things to eat or something? lol 

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - any dumbass who gets a thrill out of something that “clings to your throat” is fucking stupid. And yes, eating processed chicken nuggets is actually pretty fucking stupid and unhealthy too. I agree.

Delicious.  I ate the live Korean squids before that would wriggle so you have to chew fast — that was fun.  Not as daunting as it seems.

@caffeinated_mama@xanga - It’s reacting to the salt. Even the original poster of the video on youtube says it is, and also says that there’s a good chance it’s still alive- in case you needed me to further back up my comments.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - When you live by the ocean, you eat seafood. What’s the difference between thinking suckers clinging to your mouth is entertaining and eating poprocks and thinking all the tiny pinchings and noises are entertaining? Don’t be a hypocrite.

That’s really gross. But it’s not animal cruelty, because if you cut the head off an animal, it dies instantly. 

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - Not clinging to the mouth, clinging to the throat. If someone is fucking stupid enough to eat something that can kill you by clinging to your throat, I have no sympathy if they kick the bucket.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - No one’s ever said that it can kill you. You just assumed that. I even went back and looked over through to the comment you responded to originally and no one ever said anything about dying. You’ve assumed that. No one dies, and it usually clings to your mouth and not your throat.

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - I was responding to the first comment about the tentacles grabbing on to the throat when friends eat it. If anyone is stupid enough to eat something that grabs onto their throat, I’m not feeling sorry for their dumbasses if they kick the bucket.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - Yes, and as I said, although that person mentioned it grabbing onto the throat, that is uncommon- usually it’s to the mouth, and then you chew it, and there’s no more clinging when you swallow. I believe in korea they swallow it without chewing, and then that might be the case. But once again, you’re assuming people die from eating something that’s been eaten for thousands of years. I’m sure you believe people die from eating poprocks and coke, too.

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - I’m not a fucking Squid Expert with a PhD in squidery. I have no clue what % of people die from eating squid, nor did I make any claims that any percentage of people die from eating it. I said anyone fucking stupid enough that eats something that clings to your throat and dies, deserves it.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - My point is that you keep saying people die from this and they don’t? Why do you think people die? Why are you assuming to begin with that people die when no one but you has said anything about dying? Stop assuming- you make no sense.

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - Are you high, I never claimed any percentage of people died from this, I’m saying that if people eat weird foods that cling to your throat and they choke they deserve it. Like the dumb fucks that eat octopi and choke and die on it. Deeeeeeeeeeeeeserve it.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - Are YOU high? No one’s mentioned anything about dying from this, yet you insist it must happen somehow. What the fuck are you on about?

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - No, I am not unfortunately. But after this essay I am taking 3 Xanies and getting wasted.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - Hey, have fun with that. Just don’t end up like Amy Winehouse.

@Kyuketsuki_no_Megami@xanga - No worries, I have vocal cord dysfunction and most of my teeth. RIP dead lady.

@ShimmerBodyCream@xanga - LOL. Ok, that was a good one, you get props for that…

It’s yum