But I've found the texture of calamari can really vary depending on how it's prepared....

this is totally true. I love calamari, so I've had it prepared several ways. Sometimes it's chewy and tough, sometimes it's melt in your mouth tender (my prefered way is grilled, so yummy) It has to do with preparation style, cooking time, and skill of the chef.

I've never had cephalopod tender enough for me to enjoy it, and there just comes a point where I stop bothering to try it.

My head quite firmly wants reptiles to taste like fish, or at least share a texture. Chicken just seems wrong.

No one's ever going to get me to put something that had tentacles into my mouth.

Nope. That's why my middle name is "Nothing From the Sea".

oh geez. i came here to see what everyone was having for lunch so i could get some ideas. instead you're talking about snake, calamari and octupus. yueeeeeeeeeeeeeegh!!

maybe i don't need lunch after all.

I had a spicy italian sub for lunch.

I've never had cephalopod tender enough for me to enjoy it, and there just comes a point where I stop bothering to try it.

Yep.

Though it might be amusing to watch being made at the Hump. You have to figure the tentacles would be a bonus.

Snake was slightly chewy and light. Someone else eating it (deep in the Venezuelan jungle, btw, to add to the mystique) made the "tastes like chicken" comment, but I didn't necessarily think so. It did indeed have a bit of a tang to it. It was good. I liked it.

Horse just tasted like any other dark meat. In fact, we weren't really told we were eating horse. Initially we assumed it was mutton. It was a little tough and strong, but it was in a stew, so not unpleasantly so. Later on, when we realized it was horse, we thought about it and said, yeah it didn't actually taste all that much like mutton.

I'm tempted to get calamari linguine at the place a block away. But the portion is so huge I always end up totally stuffed....

it might be amusing to watch being made at the Hump

The Hump does know how to liven up any dish.

Earlier this morning the woman in the cube over was reproaching someone for being the cause of lobster death. She must have then been asked (phone convo, remarkably not on speaker) if she was vegetarian, because her next statement was "No. I only eat beef, pork, and chicken."

I wish I trusted there'd been irony in her dismay at the dead crustaceans.

List of acquired tastes

To that list I'd add cod tongues and schrunchions (basically fried fat from the back of a pig.)

No one's ever going to get me to put something that had tentacles into my mouth.

Word.

On that vein, scientists found a Dumbo octopus (and other crazy sea creatures) off the coast of Sable Island.