An enterprising young business student at Dartmouth has introduced a health food
offering for the cannibalistically inclined. Human flavored tofu – hufu - doesn’t sound especially appetizing, but it
is fat free and just 100 calories per serving. So it’s got that going for it.
Tough to know if hufu lives up to its billing, though. Friend of the Blog (FOB) Kameron suggests the
only way to tell if the stuff is legit is to feed it to carnivorous animals and
see if they devour it like an 8-piece of Popeye’s chicken. Maybe, but human-flavored or not, it’s still
tofu. And I’m not sure we want to train
captive animals to appreciate the taste of human flesh any more than they
already do.
The hidden gem of this story is the celebrity angle, which
may be apocryphal, but since it’s in my interest to believe it’s true, I’ll
present it as fact. Besides, if you
can’t trust America’s
oldest college newspaper - not to be confused with America' Oldest College Daily - whom can you trust? As they wrote about inventor Mark Nuckols:
“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."
Apparently Jovovich’s publicist did not respond to requests
for comment.
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