{"id":226,"date":"2005-05-28T21:35:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/28\/fauxlent-green\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T01:42:24","slug":"fauxlent-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/28\/fauxlent-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauxlent Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eat<\/a>All the taste of Soylent Green, none of the moral dilemmas!<\/p>\n

I actually don’t know if hufu<\/strong>, the human-flesh flavoured tofu, is real or a good joke, but I’m leaning pretty heavily towards it being a lovely parody. Their website will sell you a lot of t-shirts & even the Soylent Green DVD, but appears to be back-ordered on their nominal product, and the only news coverage I can find is in a college paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, their FAQ<\/a> is great:<\/p>\n

Who actually buys HufuTM<\/sup>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

HufuTM<\/sup> was originally conceived of as a product for students of anthropology hungry for the experience of cannibalism but deterred by the legal and logistical obstacles. However, our preliminary market research revealed the existence of a larger segment of the public that was interested in the availability of a legal and healthy human flesh substitute, as well as vegetarians<\/b> and vegans<\/b>. We also found that HufuTM<\/sup> is a great product for cannibals who want to quit. HufuTM<\/sup> is also a great cannibal convenience food — no more Friday night hunting raids! Stay at home and enjoy the flavorful, convenient human flesh alternative.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Milla\"<\/a>As an added bonus, the story of how they got their name gives me an excuse to post an image of Milla<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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 ‘cock’ — you should call it ‘hufu.'”<\/p>\n

“As far as I can speculate, she meant ‘ho food,'” Nuckols said. “She’s a supermodel — she doesn’t have to make sense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the taste of Soylent Green, none of the moral dilemmas! I actually don’t know if hufu, the human-flesh flavoured tofu, is real or a good joke, but I’m leaning pretty heavily towards it being a lovely parody. Their website will sell you a lot of t-shirts & even the Soylent Green DVD, but appears to be back-ordered on their… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-3E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}