So they chopped of the top part of it's head and now they're dowsing it in boiling oil so that it's spasms of agony can entertain us before it can be eaten.
Don't we have a "putting the E in POEtv" tag? Or something to that effect?
pretty sure it was butchered alive for the nerve response to be that strong.
doesn't look like the brain was damaged in the butchering process, so depending on how quickly this was served it either suffocated/'bled' to death before the sauce, or sometime after.