The horror: Dead sushi squid reanimated with soy sauce
This video of a unique sushi dish is guaranteed to turn your stomach — literally.
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one way or another, the squid is dead and the sodium is just messing with its muscles
It's alive I don't think soy sauce has anything to do with it. It react too quick.
Soya sauce has everything to do with it, its like if you had an open wound and some one decided to squirt a lemon all over it. Except harsher than that, like some one pouring acid on you.
I side with Alan!
No Johnny you are NOT! taking soy sauce to your grandpa's funeral!
Who cares . . . it is just food. Johnny! Quit playin' with ya food and eat, we godda ball game ta go to!
OK that is messed up. The squid clearly isn't fully dead, it moves differently to something that is no longer living. The legs of 'Daddy Long Legs'(Pholcidae) once removed sometimes twitch, that's nerves. The squid shown here still has it's eyes and half its head. The movements are not random, it's trying to get out of the bowl. This is absolute cruelty!
Actually it's the other way around - squids are not fully alive to begin with. So, you don't see much change in their behavior when they are dead.
Squid are not fully alive? That's a bit of a dim conclusion, could you expand on this?
A little humor is all. I actually do know how wrong the statement was... but it was the only way I could reconcile the behavior of the dead squid, while also being slightly funny.
BTW - there is nothing disgusting about this. You have simply been raised to believe that food should be dead and cooked - this is actually not true. If you are offended by this, then you have chosen to be offended by this, as it is not innately offensive to human beings. Ever see a baby try to eat a spider?.... More
@Alan....
Sorry, do you really think that there is NO difference between a living animal (at least before they killed it) and vegetables/milk?
So it is also ok to boil cats alive or strangle dogs to death?? Because it is a cultural thing?
Please think about your strange comparison before you post.
@Andrea
Actually, bacteria that is used to culture yogurt is often still alive when you eat it.
Yeast used to ferment beer and other alcoholic beverages is drowned in its own waste, and yes, thats what you're drinking when you drink alcohol, yeast poop.
So actually...yeah, its kind of a decent comparison. Animal killed for food, doused in soy sauce or living animal swallowed whole with many of its relatives...or yeast poop...which of those sounds more disgusting.
for those who think its horrifying, you're just showing your ignorance. I certainly wouldn't eat it, but how does the concept of eating spoiled milk (yoghurt) or fermented cabbage (sourkraut) or, god forbid, fermented grain mush (beer).
its a cultural thing.
Disgusting!!!!
Is it not enough to catch and kill this beautiful animals?
And for sure, lobster is NOT a better choice.
I wonder if you are being sarcastic in stating that you would choose lobster over the 'stuff of nightmares.' Aren't lobsters usally boiled alive? Sounds like a nightmare to me!
brings a new meaning to playing with your food
Beyond horrifying.
