You've probably heard the term "comfort food" -- warm homestyle meals made of familiar dishes that remind you of home and childhood and immediately put you in a good mood. Macaroni and cheese, maybe tomato soup and grilled cheese -- that sort of thing.

9 The Octopus That Squirms While You Eat It

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Have you ever read one of H.P. Lovecraft's chilling tales of unfathomable horror and thought "sounds delicious"? Then you'd probably enjoy the Japanese and Korean delicacy known as odori don. It's literally a live squid or octopus dumped on your plate and served to you, its legs still thrashing around in the sauce.

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Here, Ock tries to recreate a scene from Flashdance.

Well, it's not alive in the strictest sense, because they remove the thing's brain before they slap it onto the plate. They're not monsters. But by the time it hits your table, it was alive so recently that it still flaps its tentacles around and tries to escape when you pour soy sauce over it. What's happening here, besides your own nightmares being harvested and served to you on a platter, is that the octopus' nerves and muscles are still active and spring to life when they come into contact with salt, like the salt in soy sauce.

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Evidently, those who partake of this and other types of sannakji say that it's the sensation of the tentacles writhing about inside your mouth that creates the appeal, rather than the fairly bland taste. Because you really know that your seafood is fresh when it's trying to fight its way out of your mouth.