What other culture has invented a dish in which a squid is reanimated and dances as you pour soy sauce over it?
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I see a murdered animal stolen from the ocean.
I grew up in Japan. I see that and get homesick. I miss the food more than anything else.
I think it's not quite dead for the following reasons.
* Look up the anatomy of a squid. Only the upper part of the squid is cut off, which only amounts to a disemboweling, as PZ described it.
* In another video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmur-9Ahcgg) we see the squid still moving around after it gets disemboweled. Therefore we cannot say for sure when it actually dies.
* In the same video, even though soy sauce is applied to just one side, the squid launches itself directly upward. Thus some of the unsauced tentacles pushed downward.
* All tentacles are moving around at the end, even the unsauced ones.
* Salt produces a twitching effect on frog legs, not a "frog-like" motion. When the soy sauce poured, the tentacles move in a "squid-like" motion. (This is a minor point which might be explained by a squid's neural wiring.)
Do you really mean you enjoy seeing an animal being tortured?