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More Tasty Morsels, or, Sorry PZ Myers!

Cosmic Variance
By cjohnson
Feb 4, 2006 3:02 AMNov 5, 2019 8:06 AM

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Just so you don't get into too much of a comfort zone with the wonderful tasty food I've been describing to you recently (see here and here and more to come) from my Walkabout, here's a scene perhaps a bit less familiar (at least to the Western eye) from a street market in Tainan:

You can walk along with them on a stick and eat them like a lollipop. Squidelicious! (or is it Octopussilicious!? Although the top bits look squiddy to me, I can only see eight legs/arms/tentacles/whatever, not ten, unless two are hidden in each case?) I should apologize to PZ Myers right now, since he's a fan of these critters, I recall.... and ask him "what type are they exactly, PZ?!" -cvj

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