Cooperman said:
You’ve never fancied a bit of octopus with your margherita?
Funny you should say, I tried octopus and chips out in Ayia Napa a good few years ago, it was disgusting and I spent all the next day throwing up and craping through the eye of a needle.
Got talking to the hotel manager a couple of days later and when I told him he asked me what time of day I'd eaten it, when I told him about 9pm he shook his head and informed me that you should only eat octopus before 1pm the latest, apparently they catch the octies in the morning and they sweat after killing, if you eat them after early afternoon, in that climate, your asking for trouble, of course this was before the chilling of food stuffs was so important, especially in Cyprus in the mid naughties...