Comment by magospietato
2 years ago
Amusing anecdote - I used to eat octopus whenever I could get my hands on it, but always as an ingredient in a larger dish - e.g. chunks of octopus in a stew or sauce.
One day I ordered octopus tentacle from a tapas bar, and it arrived whole (and beautifully presented as a centerpiece of sorts). This surfaced many memories of nature documentaries demonstrating the wit and resilience of the octopus.
Looking at the delicacy artfully arranged on its plate, all I could think was "Jesus, that's _someone's arm_ we're eating!"
Took a bite, nearly threw up, and haven't eaten octopus since.
Pigs are smart too. Octopuses at least don’t live very long in the wild either.
Sorry to hear that you developed an irrational phobia. But lets try to see the positive side of this history: more octopus for me.
Sounds like you briefly became aware of a cognitive dissonance and even stumbled upon an subconscious ideology, in this case Carnism.
Melanie Joy speaks wonderfully on this subject and your realization: https://www.richroll.com/podcast/melanie-joy/