Viral Video: 'Zombie' Meat Jumps Off Plate In A Restaurant As Customers Shout

When your food is served, the last thing you anticipate is for it to fly off your plate and onto the floor. You've seen the headline; you know what you're about to see, and the video below captures the exact moment when some meat appeared to crawl straight off the plate.Naturally, it attracted similarities to the world of The Walking Dead almost instantly, but thankfully, the zombie apocalypse has not begun because someone ate meat that was still squirming on the plate.

'Zombie' meat jumps off the plate in a restaurant 

The meat starts moving on the plate | Image: YouTube

That hasn't stopped people from freaking out, though when your food gets up off the plate and goes away on its own, screaming in terror is reasonable. 

Fortunately, there's a good explanation for all of this that isn't 'the dead have risen', and even if it was the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, you'd be relieved that patient zero was a slice of meat with no ability to bite.

Why did the meat start moving? 

The reason this particular piece of meat appears to have continued to twitch for some time after death is that it is a fresh cut of flesh that has been exposed to a lot of salt. 

The reason for the meat moving maybe because of the salt exposure | Image: YouTube

Snopes checked the facts and discovered that the neurons in this cut of meat were still active, indicating that it reacted to the sodium ion found in salt and soy sauce. 

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Thus, salt causes the meat's remaining muscles to contract even though it is dead, giving the meat the appearance of being alive and flopping around like a zombie. 

Where is the viral footage from? 

They speculated that the footage may have come from a restaurant that serves 'ikizukuri', a type of live seafood dish. It is typically done with fish, but it can also be done with frogs. 

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So there you have it; this could have been what caused the 'zombie' flesh to appear to be moving. There is no free will left here, only the rote mechanical activation of mechanisms that will eventually decay into inactivity and be eaten in order to provide some other being with a meagre few hours of energy before it must consume again. 

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