If it was deep fried it would already be popular here in Scotland. BTW, life expectancy is quite a bit shorter here (all the fried food) so a "lifetime" can mean about 35 years....
But what can we do, eating raw fish as the Japanese? Come to the deep Galicia some day, natives are fond of me, you will be welcome! Besides, you share some type of roots with those people.
Maybe I will one day, if I live long enough.
So there you have it; eat octopus to make you handsome and bamboo shoots to make you cute.