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This American Life undertook a relatively serious investigation of this question (calamari 'rings' as pork rectum) and they basically came away with "inconclusi

• drspacemonkey 9y ago
  I can't listen to it right now (I will later, because TAL is great), but did they do a blind taste test? I wish I could remember where I found it, but some curious foodies tried it and the pork rectum had a... let's call it "distinct" flavour that was unpleasant and difficult to mask.
  • greggman 9y ago
    yes they did. they were able to mask it. they also had some less masked but thought it would just be perceived as off squid.