# I believe I have discovered the worst “food” item in existence **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 23, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-i-have-discovered-the-worst-food-item-in-existence/942741 "2021-05-23T14:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-i-have-discovered-the-worst-food-item-in-existence/942741/35 "2021-05-24T00:43:05Z")
> [@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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-and-bagals-for-lunch/280568): > > 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.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-salability-of-authentic-ethnic-food/399067/25): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-believe-i-have-discovered-the-worst-food-item-in-existence/942741)._