Picture this: you are a child. It's late summer, and you are walking home after school. It's hot - you long for something refreshing to wash down all of your anxieties of the day. Around the corner, you spot a truck. It is playing some sort of music...could it be...
An octopus ball truck?
Yep. I heard the annoying music long before actually seeing it pull in front of my house (still kicking myself for not getting a picture). Takoyaki are fried balls of flour interspersed with pieces of octopus tentacles. On the one I tried, the suckers on the tentacles were intact, resulting in a strange texture. It's hard to imagine children enjoying this - but the pictures of the smiling children holding octopusses (or is it octopii?) on the truck suggest that takoyaki is a children's treat.
This bizarre cultural tidbit brought to you by...nothing, since I ran out of wine.
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