Enterprising college student improves the taste of tofu. Guess how.

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Tuck student markets flesh-flavored tofu on website
By Dan Duray, The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Thursday, May 12, 2005

According to Mark Nuckols Tu'06, humans do not taste anything like chicken. The founder and CEO of Hufu, LLC -- the company that produces hufu, a type of tofu that simulates the texture and flavor of human flesh -- claims that his company's product "tastes like beef but a little softer in texture and a little sweeter in taste."

"I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh," Nuckols said. "However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation."

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His product, which contains zero fat and 100 calories per ounce-sized serving, was developed by a Dutch food processor and will be available through his website, eathufu.com, which is set to launch Thursday. The website, which ships internationally, will initially only offer Hufu Classic Strips, which, according to Nuckols, "will basically resemble the choicer flesh, which is upper arms, thighs and buttocks." Nuckols, however, assures customers that plans have been made to develop Hufu Hearts and Dr. Lector's Liver.

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He also claims that the name "hufu" was actually coined by actress and model Milla Jovovich. Several years ago, a business associate was discussing Nuckols' idea, then called "hofu," with a friend on a Eurostar train going from London to Paris. Jovovich, intrigued, allegedly turned around to join in the conversation, commenting, "'Hofu' sounds like 'c*ck' -- you should call it 'hufu.'"

"As far as I can speculate, she meant 'ho food,'" Nuckols said. "She's a supermodel -- she doesn't have to make sense."

Jovovich's publicist has not replied to inquiries from The Dartmouth.

kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there some sort of 'eat a preppy' joke going around during the eighties...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://eathufu.com/

http://eathufu.com/images/fg-554x280.jpg

kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.motorhead.it/Immagini/imm_singoli/thumbnails/22%20f.JPG

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

...I never would have thought the D would make an appearance on ILx. It's like college all over again!

giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.horrordvdtalk.com/reviews/Cannibal/CH01.JPG

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

[naked bloody nsfw -mod]

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh those wacky YAFfers.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.headbanger.hu/images/K00321.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

huh, I was expecting tofu made from hemp, personally.

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you or would you not eat Mila?

http://www.millaj.com/pics/epsilon11041.jpg

Yum... ho food!

you better believe it (you better believe it), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.horror-wood.com/double1.jpg

andy --, Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Milla's a luvverly-lookin' gurl, but there's no meat on her! Who would want to eat just skin and bones?

Reminds me of something I read on this smear site for that has it in for P3TA: They assembled these "outrageous" or out-of-context quotes to prove that 1ngrid N3wk1rk, the prez of P3TA is kerrraaazeee! But I really liked this wish of hers to have her flesh bbq'd after her death and the rest of her body to be mutilated in the way that non-human animals often are for the vain pleasure of humans:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm?headline=1865

But I wonder, if she's really serious about this last will and testament, who would want to partake of her human bbq? If she died of natural causes, she'd probably be really old. As a vegan, she's probably really skinny. So her flesh would be all tough and stringy. No good eatin' there. What a waste of a bbq!

This knuckles kid might be onto something...but I actually enjoy the taste of tofu the way it is, mebbe flavoured with some soy sauce, toasted sesame seeds and oil, ginger, and spring onions. I hate the bonita flakes that the Japanese put on the tofu. Ruins it!

Melinda Mess-injure, Friday, 13 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew, barbequeued old lady. Stewing or braising would give a much better result.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Eisbar - Naked Blood! I'm at work but is that from the Japanese gore movie? I really need a copy of that film, do you know where I can get it?

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

from me, no not really just wanted to get you all exited....

battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

this reminds me of the double meat restaurant buffy worked at.

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread has been grossing me out all morning. i have the imagined taste of human flesh in my mouth now.

latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps you should put down the baby leg?

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand why you'd want to know what human flesh tastes like - I think it might lead to nightmares.

Maria (Maria), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean it's a bit like cheese?

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, it's only meat. Tough, unpleasant meat, I should think, but still.

Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought humans were supposed to taste more like pork, hence the word for human meat being translated to "long pig" from the language of some cannibalistic culture (polynesians? wikipedia isn't clear).

That might have been because they didn't have beef, though.

mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a book abt history of food a year or two back in which it talked abt how cannibals had developed distinct prefs in the ppl they ate - the english were considered too tough and stringy, the french were much tastier. will dig up the name.

H (Heruy), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"tastes like beef but a little softer in texture and a little sweeter in taste."

That sounds like ostrich meat (which I have had).

Humans = ostriches.

Roz, Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

as a species we certainly have our heads in the sand.

latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly!

Roz, Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Just when we thought we'd seen it all from PETA -- the animal rights organization known for high-profile celebrity ads -- President Ingrid Newkirk has come up with this: George Clooney-flavored tofu.

In a letter sent to the actor, Newkirk said that PETA has been offered his gym towel (obtained right here in D.C.!) and wants to use his sweat to create Clooney tofu that will "spare animals from being killed for the table." She went on to explain that the science is pretty simple, like "making artificial chicken flavor for instant gravy."

Newkirk, a big fan of Clooney, told us yesterday that the towel was offered by a PETA supporter with the idea of auctioning it off, but she immediately thought of using his perspiration for bean curd: "I thought, 'What would make tofu more attractive to people?' ... I can see people having parties to try CloFu."

Clooney's not biting. "As a mammal, I'm offended," he told us yesterday through his rep.

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 16 March 2009 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

CLOFU

WHAT A COUNTRY

resident advice whore (haitch), Monday, 16 March 2009 02:52 (seventeen years ago)


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