After a house or garden project, what's your favourite doorstop [sandwich]?

Simple, but perhaps unusual in this country, the best food I have ever cooked and eaten in the garden was barbecued squid, basted in olive oil mixed with lemon juice, crushed garlic, sea salt and black pepper. It was accompanied by a vinho verde - refreshing Portuguese white wine with a slight acidic fizz.

I'm hesitant about trying squid, because watching wildlife programmes leads me to believe they and octopuses are intelligent. Also, the thought of the texture. Your marinade sounds delicious - perhaps I can try it with paneer? 

I'm hesitant about trying squid, because watching wildlife programmes leads me to believe they and octopuses are intelligent. Also, the thought of the texture. Your marinade sounds delicious - perhaps I can try it with paneer? 

I think that there is a large intellectual chasm between octopus species and squid. I doubt that the sort of squid that are commonly eaten are any more intelligent than the average fish, if that. Almost all species of octopus live for one to two years, they are never going to produce a culture, their intelligence is instinctive, there is no intergenerational transfer of knowledge, as is seen in many mammals - cetaceans, elephants, most carnivores, many primates. The octopus lifespan is short, the successful ones manage to eat and stay alive long enough to breed. After mating once they die from a programmed death. I suspect that their intelligence, and I think it has been exaggerated in recent years, is so vastly different from ours (each arm has a sort of brain) that it is irrelevant to think of them in human terms.