<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Some years ago, a giant squid happened to be hauled in by a Norwegian trawler just as there was a marine biology conference in one of the Scandinavian port cities. The marine biologists took the opportunity to add Architeuthis to the menu at their banquet (as palaeontologists have been known to add mammoth from Siberian recoveries). The comment was that it was exceedingly unpalatable owing to the ammoniacal flavour.</p>