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#60
Apr 07 08 08:13
My dinner is still moving



 While living in Korea, I was invited to go out for dinner with the teachers from my school. We arrived at the restaurant and sat on cushions on the floor.

[!-- /Summary --] The evening progressed in the usual Korean-office-party style. Everyone drank too much, and suddenly I found myself the most popular girl at the party. People who had never talked to me before were pouring me drinks (very bad form to pour your own drink) and wanting to know my favourite colour. I got a few declarations of love and a marriage proposal or two.

 Finally, the dish that everyone had been waiting for arrived. As the waitresses brought out the large plates, a hush fell over the crowd. The waitress put the plate down in front of me with a flourish - oysters, scallops, a few cooked shrimp, something that was quite possibly a fish's stomach.

 And then I spotted it. I blinked, rubbed my eyes and looked again. There was an octopus - a live octopus - sitting on the plate, looking right back at me, its large round eyes glistening sadly in the dim light.

 [A href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080405.BLOG05/TPStory/?query=%3AMy+dinner+is+still+moving%22"]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080405.BLOG05/TPStory/?query=%3AMy+dinner+is+still+moving%22[/A]

 

van_guy

#61
Apr 07 08 08:23
 Again wrote:
My dinner is still moving

 While living in Korea, I was invited to go out for dinner with the teachers from my school. We arrived at the restaurant and sat on cushions on the floor.[/p][!-- /Summary --] The evening progressed in the usual Korean-office-party style. Everyone drank too much, and suddenly I found myself the most popular girl at the party. People who had never talked to me before were pouring me drinks (very bad form to pour your own drink) and wanting to know my favourite colour. I got a few declarations of love and a marriage proposal or two.[/p] Finally, the dish that everyone had been waiting for arrived. As the waitresses brought out the large plates, a hush fell over the crowd. The waitress put the plate down in front of me with a flourish - oysters, scallops, a few cooked shrimp, something that was quite possibly a fish's stomach. [/p] And then I spotted it. I blinked, rubbed my eyes and looked again. There was an octopus - a live octopus - sitting on the plate, looking right back at me, its large round eyes glistening sadly in the dim light.[/p] [a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080405.BLOG05/TPStory/?query=%3AMy+dinner+is+still+moving%22"]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080405.BLOG05/TPStory/?query=%3AMy+dinner+is+still+moving%22[/a][/p]  [/p]Crikey - that's fresh seafood!
I almost bought a sail boat to live aboard.  The guy i was to buy the boat from told me a story ... he would start with a meal ofcrab one night - then he'd put the crab bits - shells guts etc onto some kind of a trap and fling it overboard then after an hour or so - he'd haul up an octopus - and chop off an arm - and throw the cephalapod back - (they grow arms back) then next night have octopus for dinner.  One time he hauled the octopus up on deck and the bugger had only seven arms and sorta glared at him - the owner of the boat didn't have the heart to lop off another leg.
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

P.C.

#62
Apr 07 08 08:28
So....do they have 8 arms....or 8 legs. Or do they grow an arm where they once had a leg. I don't think you can have it both ways.  It would ruin everything.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

van_guy

#63
Apr 07 08 08:33
 P.C. wrote:
So....do they have 8 arms....or 8 legs. Or do they grow an arm where they once had a leg. I don't think you can have it both ways.  It would ruin everything.

According to wikipedia  The octopus ([a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language"]Greek[/a] [span class="Unicode"]Οκτάπους[/span], 'eight-legs', with plural forms: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes, see [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Terminology" title=""]below[/a]) is a [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod" title="Cephalopod"]cephalopod[/a] of the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_%28biology%29" title="Order (biology)"]order[/a] Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean"]ocean[/a], especially [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_reef" title="Coral reef"]coral reefs[/a]. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus" title="Genus"]genus[/a] [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_%28genus%29" title="Octopus (genus)"]Octopus[/a]. In the larger sense, there are around 300 recognized octopus [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" title="Species"]species[/a], which is over one-third of the total number of known cephalopod species.

Sooooo the legs have it.


 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Lil Me

#64
Apr 07 08 08:48
Hhhhmmmm.  *thinking*
 Lots of possibilities in the sustainable seafood industry.
 Octopus farming, here I come.
   
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#65
Apr 07 08 08:52
Hhhhmmmm.  *thinking*
Lots of possibilities in the sustainable seafood industry.
Octopus farming, here I come.

  It's a tough industry to get up and running Lil Me.  I hear it costs an arm and a leg to get started.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

van_guy

#66
Apr 07 08 08:53
 P.C. wrote:
[em]Hhhhmmmm.  *thinking*
Lots of possibilities in the sustainable seafood industry.
Octopus farming, here I come.[/em]
 
It's a tough industry to get up and running Lil Me.  I hear it costs an arm and a leg to get started.

Remember only legs - they are not arms!!

 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

P.C.

#67
Apr 07 08 08:56
Oops.  I have STMD...short term memory disfunction.  (I don't know if I just made that up, but if I did, it's a good one.  I think I'm going to start using it.)
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

P.C.

#68
Apr 07 08 08:59
OK....I just looked it up....and it's confirmed.  I DID just make that up.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/a040.gif" border=0]

  It's very similar to CRAFT disease.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

#69
Apr 07 08 09:02
CRAFT Disease?  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#70
Apr 07 08 09:04
Can't Remember A F*ing Thing.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

#71
Apr 07 08 09:07
Oh!  I have that!  Is there medication?  Therapy available?  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

P.C.

#72
Apr 07 08 09:09
I've heard that keeping a notepad handy is helpful....but I can never remember where I put it down last.

Other than that, there is always DS.  Often if I say something stupid, there is always someone who will remind me.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Michel

#73
Apr 07 08 09:18
     
 

purelife

#74
Apr 07 08 09:30
It makes sense that you're eating dog meat and intestines, Van_Guy, because of where you're at.

  My parents who used to live in Vietnam ate all kinds of exotic meat.  It would be difficult to find that here.
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