Mestrelab 5 – Octopus 0
Pulpo a feira (Octopus Party Style), the traditional Galician recipe
Still on the subject of celebrations after the Spanish World Cup victory, the team at Mestrelab decided to go out to lunch yesterday to eat some of the local octopuses. Don’t worry, we did not eat Paul the Octopus, he is now far too expensive, just some of his distant cousins. Octopus is a staple of the Galician diet, and, following suggestions that after Paul’s predictions we should not eat ‘Pulpo’ in Spain ever again, we did our best and lasted a whole 24 hrs without touching it!
I have to say the wait was worth it, these guys were delicious!
Part of the Mestrelab team taking good care of the octopuses. From bottom right, and anticlockwise, Roberto (accountant), Maruxa (Developer), Cris (Office Manager), Jose (Developer), Carlos (President), Santi (CEO), Oleg (Developer), Isaac (Developer) and Santi (Developer). Dani (marketing) is behind the camera. We did not have time to give the octopuses names.
Our prediction prior to going to the ‘Pulpería’ (Octopus Restaurant) was that Mestrelab would eat 5 portions of octopus and that the octopus would not eat anything of Mestrelab’s. The prediction came true, proving again that any predictions involving octopusses are amazingly accurate. So, you know what to do, next time you choose your lottery numbers, eat some octopus whilst doing it (or alternatively ask an octopus) 
By the way, if you are interested in trying this out, these are 2 ways to do it:
1. Cheap and hard, quite satisfying: Cook it yourself following this recipe
2. More expensive, very easy and guaranteed satisfaction: visit us at Mestrelab and we will take you out to the Pulperia!!!
