Let's not start a panic. It appears the old dude was
senile and simply mistook the bathyscaphe for some piscine Pez dispenser. Plus, it wasn't even an
Enteroctopus dofleini, after all. Besides, every school kid knows that Cephalpods are over the hill: their heyday was 100 million years ago in Cretaceous times, when Ammonites nearly ruled the oceans of Earth, long before the evolution of lemon, garlic, olive oil, and parsley would motivate
Homo piscivorous to hunt them to extinction. I'll sleep just fine tonight, secure in the knowledge that I was "designed" to eat
polpo alla griglia. No, no: make that "selected." I dig the "in group" vibe of that.