I believe I have discovered the worst “food” item in existence

[LSLGuy]

@TruCelt

I thought I had the ultimate refutation lined up, but it turns out there’s been an update to the story. Regardless, eating live octopus was certainly considered to be a plausible cause of death, so I still think it’s a pretty lousy food stuff.

A thread from 2004 on the virtues of 99 cent store canned octopus as a foodstuff along with my commentary on octopus I enjoy:

octopus and bagals for lunch

Mrs. Roadwalker is working at Curves this morning so I took the kids to the 99 cent store so they can buy her Christmas Gifts. (The are 11, 7, 6, 3 and 1). A box of nerds, and ice cream dish, a pretty candle, all bought with money they earned. And I see a small box with the other canned goods that says: Octopuses in Garlic Oil. We joke about it for lunch and the 11 year old says lets do it. The 7 year old starts freaking out. But we buy it anyway. The kids (except the freaked out 7 year …

And a post from 2007 about a much better to eat octopus. Or at least to watch octopus being eaten.

The salability of "authentic" ethnic food.

Many years ago I was touring Japan. This was long enough ago that Caucasians were rare in Tokyo & all but unheard of out in the prefectures. I was in a city park on Shikoku watching a guy pushing a vending cart. A 20-ish total babe came up & bought one of whatever it was. I watched with interest as I hadn’t been able to figure out what he was selling from his signage. Depending on what it was, I thought it might give me an opener with the babe too. He pokes around in the cart with a skewer…