A viral video showing meat on a diner's plate twitching and flopping and crawling off the table has people's stomachs churning even as they share it around social media.
A viral video showing meat on a diner's plate twitching and flopping and crawling off the table has people's stomachs churning even as they share it around social media.
This isn't a controversial opinion. I'm not up for hunting my damn dinner like a lion and feeling it twitch between each bite.
No. Flippin'. Thanks.
If you order fresh lobster at a restaurant for example, they are likely preparing it from a tank of live lobsters located right on site.
To be fair, lobster is usually cooked enough that you don't have to see it move as you eat it, but it's still a very short period of time between life and plate.
And yet, that's exactly what one diner had to suffer through — and in the age of social media users pointing cameras at their meals, the surprising and disturbing scene was caught on video.
The video, uploaded to Facebook by Rie Prettyredbone Phillips, contains no clues as to when or where it was recorded. It's not even clear what kind of meat is involved, although many have speculated that it's frog.
Sometimes food is served a little under or over cooked. Sometimes you may even find a stray hair in it, which is pretty gross, but understandable.
But having your food literally try to walk off your plate? Not alright.
It jumps onto the floor. You know when people have these 'aha' moments in which they suddenly decide that they're never going to eat meat again? This is mine.
This squid once felt the need to inform dinner-goers that it was VERY MUCH ALIVE and was not chill with being eaten at that moment.
At the end of the short clip, you can make out a clear and perfectly understandable scream as the meat jumps off the plate and table, and onto the floor.
However, that doesn't account for the muscle spasms and contractions that are clearly on display. Others suggested that the meat was "so fresh because some of the muscles are still firing off signals."
Adding salt to freshly skinned frogs' legs can make them twitch and dance — some cells will still have enough energy left to contract, and they will confuse the salt for signals from the brain that they should contract, and so they start jumping.
Watch the video and see for yourself — if it was indeed faked, it's some pretty great fakery to get the meat to roll around like that, don't you think?
h/t: Facebook | Rie Prettyredbone Phillips