Reason number 13434562.4 why I don’t eat squid or octopus, and be it any animal that is still alive on my dinner plate….
While a woman was dining in Korea, she took a bite of the partially cooked squid upon her plate. Apparently, the squid had other plans than being consumed.
And lo and behold, the cephalopod still alive with their natural animal instincts to fulfill their biological mission in life (TO REPRODUCE!) injected the woman’s tongue with his sperm packets.
The woman reportedly experienced a “pricking and foreign-body sensation” while chewing the squid and spat it out back onto her plate. Can you imagine?! UGH. She eventually went to the hospital because she became enthralled with severe pain and claimed that several “small, squirming” creepy crawlies were in her mouth.
The doctor found 12 small white spindle-shaped, bug-like sperm packets injected into the woman’s tongue and cheek. I found a good photograph online showing what squid sperm packets look like up close..feast your eyes!
Moral of the story, if you DO eat raw squid (shame on you..sorry it’s the Marine Scientist and cephalopod lover in me) then you should remove their internal organs, or boil them long enough to kill its sperm bags. Or let them be free and reproduce naturally with their own species 🙂
Photography + Science = Chanel 
I can not make myself look at the picture! I scrolled quickly over that while averting my eyes. I know. I’m a coward. But, I will take your advice to heart and never EVER eat squid. I must have talked to you in another life, because I haven’t yet! 🙂
The photo isn’t of the woman’s tongue- it just shows sperm packets attached to a female squid. Still not the most pleasant thing in the world haha. Glad you are never going to eat squid! Wahoo save the cephalopods 😀
Oh….well, i did have to skip some of the words to make sure I didn’t see the picture! 🙂 I’m all for saving anything that I shouldn’t be eating. 😉
A not so pleasing experience!
Not quite…Yuck!
🙂
So sorry.
Eewww!
Totally agreed Bob!
Incredibly gross…so I loved this post, of course! I shall be telling my students this story tomorrow and probably for a few years to come!
Haha glad you liked it! Oh yes please pass it along to your students, it’s one of those stories that will make their jaws drop!
It certainly will! Added to my sizable collection of stories to gross kids out with!!
It certainly will! Added to my sizeable collection of stories to gross kids out with!!
I feel sick…luckily for me i share your attitude and prefer squid alive and in the ocean!
Wahoo ** high five **
Squid karma!
Seriously!
Wow! She ordered one and end up having 13! What a treat! … Wait … huh!? …
Excuse me as I puke.
I hear ya…
Actually it reminds me of that foreign movie Old Boy. He ordered a live squid and ate it, and got sick.
You know, I was in Korea and someone tried to get me to eat live squid. I consider myself pretty open minded and adventurous when I’m travelling, but for some reason I just couldn’t bring myself to go for it. Now I’m kind of glad I didn’t.
I’m glad you didn’t too! EEEWWWY!