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A screenshot of an interview transcript that reads:
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Geoff Bennett:

What food do you refuse to eat?

Alton Brown:

Octopus. I used to do a fair amount of work for the Monterey Bay Aquarium out of Monterey Bay, California. I would do lectures and things out there, and I would get to -- I will make this short.

I used to visit this octopus a lot, a giant Pacific octopus. And the first time that I met him and was playing with him in his enclosure, he stole my pen out of my pocket. And, of course, they taste with their tentacles, and they recognize things by their tentacles.

And in the story, which I tell, I came back about eight months later, and he was getting very old at that time, and they were actually going to take him off of display, because they had very short lives. But he touched my hand with one tentacle, and then with another tentacle reached up for my pen. He remembered me.

He tasted me and remembered me. And I'm like, friends don't eat friends.

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