Fish sauce and shrimp paste/blachan are some of my kitchen cupboard essentals, but only the blachan stinks, so I cook it outside. Portuguese fishermen dry octopus on the washing line, then slice it off to eat as a snack. I was once challenged by an old boy to try a piece; my revenge was to give him a piece of blachan (raw), which he found disgusting but had to eat. The octopus was merely very chewy.
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