A follow-up to purple rice/beef

[owlfish]

First, answer the original poll on purple rice & beef.

Then, if you're feeling like you would like to fill out another poll just now, here is one which examines more aspects of the same issue. (Polls are not, after all, editable.) The other one looks like it will resolve my actual point of curiousity (about which more in another post. Not today.) This one is optional extra detail.

[Poll #1587862]

This poll is dedicated to desperance, who requested clarification.

Comments

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I always imagine multi-tentacled cooks preparing various stages of the same dish at the same time in order to prepare great quantities. When I make spaghetti sauce, I cook the meat/veggies first, prepare the tomato base next, and then simmer the two for x amount of time. A multi-tentacled cook would be able to chop the garlic, mince the onions, prepare the meat and tomato base, presumably all at the same time. (I'm assuming the being in possession of the tentacles would be capable of concentrating on all these different things. I do know that octopi are quite intelligent, but in my readings, they've all come across as rather single minded. They can use their tentacles to unscrew jar tops.)