People warned against eating venomous blue-ring octopus

By The Nation

 

 

The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) has warned people not to eat grilled blue-ring octopus as its venom is lethal.

 

The octopus was sold at the market in Pathum Thani province.

 

The DMCR official Facebook page wrote that the Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute had received a report from Jantra Phumphuang who saw the poisonous octopus was sold at the market.

 

The page posted pictures of the grilled octopus to warn consumers to check the food whether it has a pattern of blue rings on its body before eating.

 

The blue ring octopus’s venom is very lethal and it can tolerate heat more than 200 Celsius degrees, so the cooking process would not get rid of the poison, the DMCR wrote.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30398824

 

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Oh no, I was just thinking I would eat a plateful of  blue-ring octopus with a side of chips and mushy peas…

I don't need a warning to avoid eating something that looks like that.

I think that the motto at the bottom of ukrules post sums it up best.

But it looks so yummy!

My simple rule in life is that if it has more than 4 legs I don't eat it.

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

My simple rule in life is that if it has more than 4 legs I don't eat it.

 

Octopuses don't have more than 4 legs. 

Is the bug crawling on top of it a sanitary issue, or seasoning? 

I qualified as a SCUBA diver in Oz way back in 1978. The blue ringed octapus is one of the deadliest little things in the sea. There has (I believe) though only been one death from its' bite, in Australia. Poor chap was a soldier on leave from Vietnam back in '67 and he picked one up on a Sydney beach to look at it. Occy's have a very strong beak, but the big ones most of us eat are harmless, even if they bite you.. The one he picked up was a blue-ring, so called because when it feels threatened,  its' dark rings on its' tentacles start pulsating and glowing bright blue. It bit him and within minutes he had difficulty breathing and eventually died. It is now known that if bitten, you need to have mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or better still, be put on a ventilator for up to 12 hours, until the venom wears off. You are fully brain alert - you just can't breath until it wears off. I often see them in rock-pools on the NSW coast and I'm forever telling kids to leave them alone, as they are only 10cm (4") across and can easily sit in the palm of your hand. Bit like some Thai girls I knew back in the day - cute, but highly dangerous when played with.

An octopus with a blue ring - different!!

Getting ready for the return of the chinese tourists. Bats are so yesterday!

 

Cheers

21 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Is the bug crawling on top of it a sanitary issue, or seasoning? 

It's Ok....the bug is not toxic

Can we add bats to that list..and durian?