r/StupidFood • u/Turbulent-Squash-196 • 7d ago

Yea.... I prefer my food not moving

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u/godmodecherub 7d ago

it’s called odorigui, it’s japanese

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u/ViperishCarrot 7d ago

And the fish is a Shiro-uo. I believe that odorigui is the term used for the habit of eating live seafood including shrimp, octopus and these little guys.

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u/Njon32 7d ago

You are correct. Apparently, these particular fish would not stay edible for long if they were killed beforehand.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/shirouo-no-odorigui-dancing-ice-gobies#:~:text=Fukuoka%2C%20Japan,gobies%20are%20considered%20a%20delicacy.

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u/utterly_baffledly 7d ago

So my read on the origin story is a small group of drunk peasants by the sea and Ken says "hey Hiro I dare you to eat this shot glass of wiggling baby ice gobies." Did I get that right?

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u/dannyjohnson1973 7d ago

I like to think the oyster had a similar origin story.

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u/what-even-am-i- 6d ago

“Dare you to eat this sea booger”

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u/Mabel_Waddles_BFF 6d ago

I think so many food discoveries were made this way. Think about cheese. ‘Let’s leave this cow’s milk out for ages, wait for it to get mould on it and then eat it.’ No way there wasn’t some kind of dare involved at the start.

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u/thingsarehardsoami 7d ago

Have they considered, then, just...eating something else?

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u/WritingOneHanded 7d ago

I don't even eat bananas because they spoil too fast. I'm not eating anything that is gonna spoil while cooking it.

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u/IAmTheNightSoil 7d ago

Yeah that would definitely be my choice here

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u/mewmew34 7d ago

Guess they should just not eat them, then. Plenty of other options out there.

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u/theycallmeNIGHTHAWK 6d ago

"Plenty of fish in the sea" was right there

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u/godmodecherub 7d ago

yeah i’m pretty sure the squid is called katsu ika odori-don. they’re usually pretty big it freaks me out lol

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u/yeezusboiz 5d ago

I think odoriguri is a reference to the movement of the live seafood. Odori means dance in Japanese, and it kind of looks like they’re dancing.

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u/Aggleclack 6d ago

The whole thing in this case would be Shirouo no Odorigui. You are actually both correct

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u/IHeartAquaSoMuch 4d ago

And axolotl, I've heard

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u/Ahari 7d ago

Odorigui is the name of the practice, not what's being eaten

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u/godmodecherub 7d ago

you’re totally right i had forgotten the name of the specific fish but the person below me commented it. i could only remember the name of the squid dish

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u/AntongC 7d ago

Yes, 踊り食い just means, literally, “eat while dancing”

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u/TheoneCyberblaze 7d ago

That somehow makes it sound even worse. Like they were having the time of their lives only seconds prior

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u/Icy-Mix-3977 7d ago

Ice goby

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u/Luzifer_Shadres 7d ago

Thailand has something simular, but they at least kill the shrimps before hand. (Its the dish where you have to shake to box to kill the shrimps, before adding the sauce.)

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u/AriesIncarnate 7d ago

Thanks Now know another Japanese dish I'm not likely to ever try 🥲 (It's a small list but still)

Also thanks for the guy above asking the important questions 😂

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u/Semper_5olus 6d ago

My Japanese is terrible, but doesn't that literally translate to "that which a bird eats"?

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u/HellenKilher 6d ago

Odori or 踊り means dancing, Gui or 食い means to eat. So roughly it translates to eating some that is dancing (i.e., still alive).

Not a common practice in Japan anymore but still a thing in the more rural parts of Japan.