Sounds like something from a nightmare but this actually happened to a family from Pahang recently.
Posting a video of the creepy moving meat, Twitter user @tterororo wrote: "Guys, why is this sacrificial meat (daging korban) moving? My mom does not want to cook it because she's afraid of it".
GUYS KENAPA DAGING KORBAN NI GERAKKKKKK
— Yo! Artist (@tterororo) July 31, 2020
Mak aku taknak masak sebab takut ? pic.twitter.com/XRma8VIUqH
When contacted by Rojak Daily, @tterororo (she preferred for us to use her Twitter handle instead of her real name) said that it was definitely unexpected.
The family had just gotten the meat from a nearby mosque during the Hari Raya Haji celebrations and never ever expected to see such a thing.
A sign of freshness
The tweet, which included a video, went viral with many netizens explaining that the movement was a sign that the meat was extremely fresh."You can rest assured, this piece of meat is very fresh and is from a freshly slaughtered animal. The central nervous system is dead, but the nerve endings in the muscles are still firing, resulting in the jumping."
— Ijaz (@izndzn) August 1, 2020
This is rigor mortis and fyi, if you cook the meat like a day after rigor mortis, the meat is more tender and delicious ?
— Blehh Blehh (@BlehhB) August 1, 2020
Some also shared other videos of moving meat, and yes, it may be a natural thing and a sign that the meat is fresh, but it still looks creepy!Look at this one pic.twitter.com/h0qc6XsG11
— ER SHABIR BEIGH (@shabir222) August 5, 2020
The video below is of an older incident which was filmed in China.
Not an unusual occurance
@tterororo told us that her mother eventually placed the moving meat into the freezer and it stopped pulsating."We still did not eat it though. We just couldn't," she laughed.
GUYS KENAPA DAGING KORBAN NI GERAKKKKKK
— Yo! Artist (@tterororo) July 31, 2020
Mak aku taknak masak sebab takut ? pic.twitter.com/XRma8VIUqH
We absolutely understand because looking at the video again, we don't think we would eat it either! Just tak boleh lah.
Would you have eaten it?