More dead cut up cephs.
marineboy said:
OMG! I would steal all those octos and cuttles and squids and throw them back in the minute I saw them!
Marineboy, I understand your desire to save cephs from their salt and peppered, along with some chili sauce on a hot stove grave! But this is not the way to go.
1) Even if I stole them, most of them were dead/dying anyway and would just be another loss for both hungry folks and the fishermen, not to mention it not doing any good to the ocean.
2) If I bought them, I would be broke and have no money (GIVE ME MONEY NOW FOLKS TO SAVE A CEPH! - remember the my first thread?
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3) If I stole them, I would not only get arrested, but I would incur some bad rep at the wet market and lose my position as "The Guy who sets free stuff" - resulting in me having to pay more than I do know (Regulars get discounts and the occasional freebie.) and they would also refuse to sell anything to me or even give me ridiculously high prices for anything.
It would also be like asking Dr. Steve O'Shea to nuke the bottom trawlers, which in turn, just gave Dr. SOS a valuable complete body of a dead Messie they trawled up.
marineboy said:
Have you seen that new "live octopus" eating thing? ITS SO GROSS AND EVIL! They get a big bowl with very live and healthy octopus and stap them with chopsticks then wrap them around it and wrip there tentacles off all when the octo is still alive. And finally when its holding onto its last breath they eat it whole!!! YUK!
Yes I have seen the tradition (it's not new) of eating live animals such as a octopus. It's not gross nor evil, in fact, it's quite exhilarating and amusing. They get a big bowl (or no need for this if you're near a sea-food tank), the insert a chopstick (usually plastic or silver) into the mantle via the funnel.
The octo is then sometimes placed in a icebath for some unknown reason. The tentacles are then eaten and cut at the end. Each bite is about 1.5-2 inches long, so a fresh common octo could give about 15-25 (depends on size and length of arms) people, since this is not a "main dish" but sort of like a entertainment/thrilling appetizer.
The process of cutting off the arms is done with very sharp scissors, since blunt ones tend to make the process slow and literally "rips off" the arms instead of sever it.
The process usually takes around 3-7 minutes for a group of 10. The octo is usually cooked afterwards. Eating a live octo's mantle is not done since the internal organs contain bacteria and other nasties. If I get the chance to do so again, yes,
I would do so, after all, you only live once, gotta try everything you can.