“did try octopus once, and it was like something manufactured by B.F. Goodrich”
Reminded me of the time I ordered calimari and told my then four-year old they were Italian Onion rings.
He chowed down, ate half the basket then got a puzzled look on his face and said, “these onion rings taste like fish”.
You had a four-year-old who ate onion rings? Wow—the prevailing sentiment among ours was that onions are bad luck.