Nutrition in Italy

We went out for dinner yesterday and I opted for the seafood meal below as opposed to delicious Italian pizza. It was a big pile of protein and not much else but pretty tasty. The only downside was that my octopus (yep - there was an octopus on the plate) had a penis which, I'm not going to lie, was a bit of an appetite killer (perhaps a good thing?). I am not really into eating tentacles anyways so it wasn't a huge loss (and waterskier Kole munched it down penis and all without hesitation so I feel good to have provided one of my skiers a little extra protein boost). 

You may think I'm exaggerating by commenting on the octopus penis but nope, It really did have one...the Italian guy beside me noticed my observation (not difficult considering my lack of discretion in picture-taking) and googled it right there, finding out that "The octopus' penis, made by the male's third arm on the right, is called hectocotylus and is detachable. Mating can last two hours for several times, and the male introduces the hectocotylus into the girls' cavity where it deposes the spermatophores (pouches filled with millions of sperm cells). During the mating, the male loses its hectocotylus, but by the next season, he will have regenerated a new one."