Japanese Street Food - DANCING SQUID SASHIMI Hakodate Japan Seafood

[cooleKinder]

Gordon Ramsay: ITS RAW!!!!

Japanese chef: yes thank you

[sanchocloset]

I hope In my next life I don’t comeback as a sea creature near Japan

[sirfrancis]

a squid's brain sits between its eyes, I'm pretty sure every single one of them was alive through the entire butchery process and felt every ounce of the agony that would come from it. Dear lord.

[firerocket]

"No, it's still moving!"
"Yes, because it's fresh."

[Dazzletrain]

Although this looks delicious, I can't help but think of how brutal it is to go out this way as a little squid.

[PixsicleStudios]

Let's be honest here






He has pretty good knife skills

[spyhunter]

Chef: Are you dead?

Squid: *Well yes, but actually no.*

[nekot]

person: *pours slight amounts of sauce on squid*

squid: *moves slightly*

me: *dumps out all the sauce*

squid: *begins default dancing*

[silverwarfare]

Customer: How fresh will the food be served?
Chefs: Yes

[brandontaplin]

Vegans: NO DON'T KILL THEM
Japanese master chef: *Your say is invalid*

[sadchild]

Alright squids aside. Those knife skills are dope

[nathanialbassindale]

*No Squids were harmed in the making of this video*

[DB-ppkj]

Crazy how all top comments are supportive, but when you sort by newest all the comments are universally disgusted and horrifed.

[cupid]

3:11 the man is pointing at the squid like:
“Stay there.” And I somehow find that hilarious

[ganariagente]

Cook: OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU
Squid: NANI?!

[ravenhi]

Input from a biologist - the squid isn't dead the moment the chef cuts the thing up. What he rips from the middle is the oral aperture, countaining the beak and mouthparts (it's a bulb-like structure than you can pull out). The brain itself resides between the eyes. Even as he cuts through the mantle, the brain is still largely intact. A squid has a comparable nervous capacity to a dog, but whether or not the squid is aware or feels pain during the process we're not entirely certain.

As for the dancing part, personally i can't tell whether it's still alive at that point. One has to remember that the argument that this is all a postmortem response (as frog legs twitch when sprinkled with salt) is difficult to justify when the other tentacles move, even when not directly in contact with the sauce. It's homologous to pouring salt on a right frog leg and the left moves as well (there could be the argument that it is a collective reflex response from a secondary central nervous system governing tentacles in cephalopods, as it is theorised that cephalopods have a secondary 'brain' only for the tentacles, but this implies the animal has a still largely intact nervous system at this point - hence 'alive'). One also has to remember that even humans, entirely dependent on the head for survival, may still be alive, conscious, and somewhat responsive several minutes after decapitation.

Ultimately i am not one to judge on how this is done, regardless of the status of the animal upon cutting. There's always some form of 'cruelty' over animals around the world, heck even cruelty within our own species. But i suppose 'cruelty' is subjective.

I would still love to try one of these someday.

[splakbor]

to everyone saying this is "cruel"

1. squid could not initially feel its tentacles removed, and even if it did, he immediately took out the brain, the squid probably didn't even know it was dead

2. something in the muscles of squid cause them to move post-mortem, and even more so when they come in contact with soy sauce

3. you are not the squid. how would you know what it feels

[memesman]

Can we take a moment to look at the good cutting skills of the chefs

[LyssLiLi]

Chef: "Look it's dancing"
Squid: "Writhes in anguish, slowly dying in extreme pain."

[MrZevs]

Somewhere in the parallel world, a race of squids catches people, and cutting off their heads, makes them dance.