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Article: Squid squirms its way into Americans' hearts
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 8, 1989
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For many of us, our first view of a squid was from inside the
Nautilus in the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." As we watched,
horrified, the deep-sea submarine piloted by Captain Nemo was grasped
in the tentacles of the gigantic beast with the huge, googly eyes and
malevolent parrot beak. This was our very own "Alien," a creature
that was not only awesomely ugly, but mysterious. When it was not
pinioning hapless ships in its suckers, it was escaping its enemies
by emitting whooshing clouds of brownish-black ink.
A suburban '60s kid, brought up on "20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea" and such TV fare as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," would no
more have thought of eating squid than of ...