On Feb 19, 2:35 pm, Dave Smith > wrote:

> My son acquired a taste for calamari on a sort of peer pressure. I had it
> in a restaurant and he asked to try one just so that he could tell his
> friends he had eaten something really disgusting. He ended up getting an
> order of it for himself and now eats it regularly.

Heh! You reminded me of a time in the late '70s, when I was teaching a
summer class in Zoology 1a at the University of Illinois with a fellow
grad student who was from Hawaii. We decided to close out the labs
with an "eat the critters you've been studying" session.

She brought in some dried cuttlefish and other things her mom had sent
her from home, and I got to use some money from the departmental
contingency fund to buy some clams and squids, and other beasts I
can't remember, from the local seafood supplier. (Yes, even Champaign-
Urbana had fresh seafood back then.)

We had two lab sections. In the first one, Joyce demonstrated a
dissection of a couple of the critters we had, while I did the prep
and the cooking on my camp stove.

We had great fun with this, especially in the second lab after word
had gotten around that those crazy teachers were trying to get us to
eat lab animals. ;-0)

More for us.

David