AnnaStrophic. For me calamari are cephalopods, either swimming around in the sea or prepped for cooking, but that's because that's what it means in Italian. (It's also plural, calamaro being the singular.) There are a bunch of ways to cook squid. Here's some of the ways I've had it: chopped into rings and tentacles and then either fried or marinated, cut into "steaks" and fried, cooked in their own ink, as one of the many seafood items in Chinese seafood soup noodle, on top of a bullet of vinegared rice as nigiri sushi, BBQed whole and served on a stick, etc.) But the default serving that comes to my mind is the one I like best: marinated salad of rings and tentacles. Hmm.