It's good to have a freind that owns a sushi restaurant…

One of the guys at work, who is my department manager, really nice guy, not the typical jerkish manager, very hands-off management style, trusts me to run my department, also happens to own a restaurant, it’s a Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese restaurant.

Every Friday, most of the people at work order lunch there and have it delivered, myself included

I also stop by every Friday evening to pick up some take out to bring home to the family (Shrimp Pho soup, vegetarian spring rolls, and seaweed salad), but I usually stay for a bit myself, typically order some green tea, seaweed salad (I’m addicted to it, it’s gooood) and an order of Maki rolls

“D’argo” (names Farscaped to protect the innocent) typically adds something extra to the order, gratis, sometimes it’s free fried ice cream, sometimes the “Scorpius Special” (shredded crab stick, diced cucumber, and tempura batter crumbles mixed together), today he was feeling surprisingly generous…

Two other co workers were at the sushi bar with me, after getting our Scorpy Special, “D” slipped us another treat, getting an evil gleam in his eye, he placed a little plate before us with six cooked baby octopus on it, saying that he was thinking of adding it to the full time menu and he wanted us to try it…

Jool was a bit hesitant, but Stark grabbed one, looked at it a bit hesitantly “you eat the whole thing?” and then chowed down on it

I grabbed one, feeling a twinge of guilt in eating what was a rather intelligent cephelapod (don’t like eating smart animals, prefer my source of animal protein to be somewhat stupid :wink: )

It was surprisingly good, actually, like an oversized and meaty clam, I’d definitely order it again

Wonder what the special treat will be next week…

I’m just wondering how many people will read this and go, "WTF is Farscape???

But yeah, getting “Manager Specials” and sneak peaks at future menus gratis is definitely a benny.

Your guilt over eating an octopus is misplaced. They aren’t smart enough to not be caught by humans, so fuck 'em.

Goes for elephants and dolphins too. Dumbasses.

So, you’re suggesting we take a color-shifting, shapechanging, tool using, puzzle solving species, and eat the dumb ones?

Man, when the cephalopod uprising comes up from the ocean to enslave us, I’m blaming you.

Yeah, dolphins are so smart, why don’t they stay out of tuna nets? Always going around breathing air like a fucking showoff instead of having gills like a regular fish. What are they trying to prove? I’ll bet the other fish really like it when one of those uppity dolphins gets caught.

Before or after you eat 'em? During?

Wow! Combine tentacle sex AND dinner!

Yeah, and if geese had the chance they’d force-feed us and feast on our livers, so foie gras is fair game too!