Restaurant customers left screaming after horrifying moment 'zombie' meat 'crawls off' dinner plate

As fun as it might seem at first, sometimes there is nothing more annoying than when you just want to eat your meal but it comes with an unnecessary faff.

Like, just give me my burger, I don’t need you to fill the table with dry ice or light a ring of fire behind it.

And having the actual food doing the messing about seems like a next level.

But when this ‘zombie’ meat ‘crawled off’ a dinner plate, it wasn’t a weird stunt by the restaurant and the horrifying moment had customers screaming in a viral clip.

Yep, it literally seems to move about and throw itself off the table and onto the floor.

Thankfully, it wasn’t the first sign of the zombie apocalypse, but it has absolutely freaked people out.

The science behind the 'moving meat'

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 end, you'd be quite glad that patient zero was a chunk of meat with no ability to bite anything.

As for why this particular cut of meat appears to have continued twitching after death, it’s apparently because it's a fresh cut of flesh being exposed to a lot of salt.

It twitches about on the plate. (Facebook)

Snopes did a bit of a fact check on this and it seems the neurons were still active in this chunk of meat, meaning it reacted to the sodium ion that can be found in salt and soy sauce.

Yeah, like some kind of science experiment on your dinner plate.

So, the exposure to salt makes the still existing muscles in the meat contract even though it's dead, allowing the meat to appear as though it's still alive and flopping around like a zombie.

It’s also suggested the meat we could see in the video had come from a frog, so no wonder it was hopping mad about having been killed and plated up.

Plus, it could be that this footage came from a restaurant doing something called 'ikizukuri', where live seafood is prepared.

A great leap for freedom. (Facebook)

It's normally a process for fish, but it can be done for frogs as well.

So there you have it, this actually could have been precisely what happened to make it seem as though the 'zombie' meat was actually moving.

There's no free will left here, just the rote mechanical triggering of mechanisms soon to decay into uselessness and be consumed to grant some other being a scant few hours of energy before it must consume again.

I’ll just have my meal without the science, thanks.