'WARNING MATURE CONTENT 18+ You probably have seen countless videos of this South Korean practice of eating octopus alive. They are plucked from a tank of water and taken directly to the table and are dropped onto a plate with sesame oil and sometimes torn up sheets of paper thin seaweed and left to twitch and writhe around. Why eat live octopus? Well according to South Koreans, the sensation of tiny suckers on the inside of your mouth is far more sensuous and pleasing than the actual taste and texture of the octopus. Some views claim that \"It\'s not cruelty, it\'s food. All food that was once an animal had to die at one point.\" Others however find it simply distasteful, saying \"that is kinda gross\" Is it safe? For one Korean it was almost deadly. \"...a piece of tentacle got stuck between my teeth and I almost choked on it.\" In fact, there have been cases of drunken men being choked to death by a single, tiny octopus. American Ingraham Jones, a Kendo martial arts student in Korea, tried his hand at eating one. For Jones it was not a successful attempt, but as he stated, \"Chewing is not the problem, the problem is swallowing, and it\'s slimy and sticks to your tongue...I tried.\" More interestingly, there was even a case of a 63 year old Korean Woman who gets \'Pregnant In The Mouth\' After Eating Squid. Doctors found baby cephalopods stuck in the mucous membrane of the mouth. The pods, which covered her gums, tongue and cheek, were filled with an ejaculatory apparatus and sperm, with the apparatus discharging the sperm very forcefully. Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/octomom-20-woman-gets-pregnant-mouth-after-eating-squid-703024'
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