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Saturday, June 20. 2020

Polpo


Octopus is good food, grilled, sauteed, in a cold salad, whatever. We probably learned in high school bio that they are molluscs, same as squid. Cephalopod molluscs.


Compared to shelled molluscs, these creatures are advanced and have multiple brains. As far as eating goes, with squid we gut them and eat the rest, but with polpo we cook just the feet. I have never heard of eating an octopus head and guts as we happily do with clams and oysters (which have no heads, really. No eyes - but scallops have sort-of eyes...).


You can read about octopus anatomy here.



Posted by The Barrister in Food and Drink at 14:43 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Impressive illustration. Gotta admire folks who devote intellectual effort in pursuit of knowledge just because some things are worth knowing about.
#1 Tally Whagger on 2020-06-20 16:34 (Reply)
Exactly what I was thinking.
#1.1 snopercod on 2020-06-21 08:14 (Reply)
Octopus is 'OK'. Lobster, shrimp and Halibut are much better.
#2 Saul on 2020-06-20 17:57 (Reply)
Octopus? Resembles pink pearl eraser when cooked by most restaurants.
#3 Missy on 2020-06-20 19:22 (Reply)
No thanks.
#4 Gary in Texas on 2020-06-20 20:13 (Reply)
Octopi have no brain let alone brains, like squid, they have nerve ganglia.The movement to attribute excessive capabilities to less than real and hardcore origins in science is a sad reflection of where academia is headed. I cringe at what bullshit is shoved down our throats as "scientific consensus."
#5 CAPT CRAIG on 2020-06-20 21:05 (Reply)
so very sad to see the lengths a man will go to rationalize his appetite in the service of extinguishing his curiosity about the inner life of all creatures, big and small
#5.1 warbling j laskitude (Link) on 2020-06-23 02:23 (Reply)
Food? [i]Nah. Not for me.[/]
#6 PubliusII on 2020-06-20 21:32 (Reply)
Love octopus, best grilled but you have to know how to cook it or it will be rubbery and inedible.

As for the heads, they are the best part. Many years ago on one of my first jobs I worked at a high end eatery that did a grilled octopus salad. The chefs split the octopus between the head and the body and cooked both after cleaning. Delicious.

I lived in Italy for many years and they prepare it in many ways. The heads are always eaten.
#7 Adam (Link) on 2020-06-21 01:40 (Reply)

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