Would You Eat Live Octopus? National Geographic

[yuiyoshida]

[mahina]

1. Never, nor dead octopus.

Can’t bear to.

Fish, fine.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

2. No! not even breaded and fried.

I not a picky eater but Damn.

[House of Roberts]

3. Gagh is best served live,

so I guess octopi is also.

Best for whom, now, is the next question.

[demosincebirth]

4. If I was starving, only.

[dhill926]

5. no...no octopus in any way...

they are highly intelligent and emotional animals. Leave them the fuck alone....

[BigmanPigman]

6. Sure, I saw Anthony Bourdain eat it in NYC

on No Reservations. It is basically dead but its legs still wiggle and you can feel the suckers as you swallow it.

Skip to tje 11:30 min mark...

https://dai.ly/x560fcc

[2naSalit]

7. Nope!

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Octopuses are smarter than our pResident

but then, that isn't saying much.

And no, I wont eat octopus, dead or alive because they may be sentient beings.

[soryang]

9. 징그럽다!

I will eat nakji cooked, preferably fried or braised or in a relatively tame hot soup. The problem is I don't like to see them cooked live either . To me it is preferable to squid (awjingaw). It is also preferable to seaslug (hesam). I embarrassed myself once a long time ago, when offered hesam, which is served fresh. I couldn't eat it.

[yuiyoshida]

10. I remember this Youtube video of people eating

live abalone ... well its cooked live...

[soryang]

11. ouch!

the Korean broadcast services on the internet have so many cooking, restaurant and marketplace programs. If it's about marine food products (he san), sooner or later these scenes where marine life is being cooked live turn up. my better half doesn't like the practice either. Kill it or freeze it first, then cook it. I literally see scenes like this on video almost daily. I have to turn away.

I think the tradition comes from not having adequate refrigeration until relatively recently in historical terms, so prizing "hesan" fresh from the sea, was a common sense practice from a health standpoint. It doesn't get any fresher than still being alive. Even with refrigeration or pickling processing eating without cooking presents risks of food poisoning (to an American anyway). I get the impression that the locals are immune. Beware pickled crabs!

[yuiyoshida]

12. These dishes are not popular in South Korea?

I tend to prefer Thai food more, I think. I love Coconut and curry rice!

[soryang]

13. They are popular in South Korea

sorry to give the wrong impression. this is my personal reaction. having lived in the US for decades my wife can no longer consume raw or uncooked seafood.

[Normanart]

14. Of course

Another source of animal protein, if you eat animals. Drawing the line at wart hog anus.