Two weeks ago I linked to the website of a company with plans to sell
human-flavored tofu. I thought it was kind of funny at the time, but after posting the link I didn't think much about it until a few days ago when I received an email from Mark Nuckols, CEO of HUFU (the human tofu company). Mark requested that I remove the post about Hufu from my site, because by mentioning his product on the Museum of Hoaxes, he was concerned that people might think that Hufu wasn't real, or that it was some kind of hoax. Specifically he wrote that,
"having it even come up on "museum of hoaxes" implies something not true, and as a debunker of hoaxes I am sure you don't wish to inadvertently or carelessly libel people trying to undertake the difficult enough task of starting a business."
I told Mark that I thought his product was funny and I definitely supported it, but that I wasn't about to remove the post from my site. I have a real problem about removing things from my site unless they're shown to be false.
My response didn't satisfy Mark, who is now up to his third email to me. He seems like a nice guy, and I'm not certain that he isn't pulling my leg about this whole thing (although his emails sound very serious). But he really wants the post about his company removed. In fact, he's making me feel very guilty. In his last email he said that
"being on your website is going to kill this undertaking in its crib... I am sure putting our business in jeopardy is not your intent." Ouch. But I'm not ready to accept that kind of blame. Sure, my site is called the Museum of Hoaxes, but that doesn't mean that everything on it is a hoax. Plus, the question I raised is a valid one: how would any customers know if this stuff
really does taste like human flesh?
Anyway, my purpose in posting about this is so that if people google 'hufu' and find my site, they'll also see this post where I'm going to state that I don't want to be responsible for the death of Hufu. I genuinely think it's a funny marketing concept, and Mark Nuckols insists that it's real. However, I still don't understand how he can know that it really tastes like human flesh.
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And as they say, if it's in a movie, then it must be true!
I'm surprised they havent started up a secret splinter group to try and ban the product on religous/ethical reasons.
...MARK NUCKOLS ATE AN ANUS...
Cause I was ready to believe it was real before? I don't think so. I would think this is a hoax, regardless of it being on this site.
And what flavorings and spices would one use to emulate the taste of human flesh? Wouldn't it really have to depend on the ethnicity of the person? If there's a market for HUFU, there'd probably be a market for Italian-human flavored tofu, or Indian, or Chinese. Get a little ethnic flavoring in your tofu while you're at it!
*Note* Patent is pending on my ethnic human flavored tofu, so Nuckols, if you read this, don't even think about stealing my idea!
Only if they're people who can't read...
thats true, its just like me posting that macs are faultily built crap machines on a message board
No, I didn't think so. Therefore, you have no reason to remove the item.
Does it really taste like people? I hope I never find out.
seriously though, I never made any assumptions as to whether or not this is a hoax simply because I heard about it at "The Museum Of Hoaxes".
The DvDs are all movies that feature "flesh eating" as a theme like "Cannibal: The Musical", "Alive!" and, of course, "Soylent Green."
Bon Appitite
Well that would depend on where or what the person you decided to taste was doing right? Let's see, I clamped my mouth on someones arm and it tasted like salt. Obviously this person had been sweating.
Nuckels, stop repackaging spam mixed with tofu and marketing it as Hufu! If you want us all to believe in you, present scientific fact that Hufo does indeed exist and that it does indeed taste like flesh *shudders* yuck. I think you would have had a better chance at marketing something like human hair dental floss or something.
Hmmm, would that work?
If so, it would save me maybe 25 cents per month.
If Hufu's CEO is still reading this, I think he knows the obvious by now. What's killing his business undertaking is the fact this his concept is utterly revolting & unappetizing. Of course jeopordizing his business is not Alex's intent. But if HuFu IS real, then boycotting it is MY intent..
I'd even be happy to report back to all you guys, but I'm not sure it really exists either. Mind you, I've never tasted human flesh, in the literal sense, so I couldn't tell you if it really did taste like people or not.
I really can't believe there's much of a serious market out there for this product (I'd be damned worried if there was!); most of any business is going to be students looking for that perfect gift for a flatmate and stuff - in which case this site is just the kind of plug he wants. Or would be, if he wasn't undermining it by making himself look so tarned humourless...
Unfortunately, I'm thirteen and my grandparents would not approve of me buying hufu, even if it is FAKE human flesh.
Zer010
If my experience is any example, the only hoax going on at Hufu is them taking people's money and not delivering anything in exchange. And I believe the technical term for that is Internet Fraud, not hoax.
--rick
Anwyays, I ordered a shirt from them a couple months ago and have yet to receive it, they've charged my card, and I cannot get a response out of them with several emails wondering if it has been shipped or what. Anyone else have any problems?
I say bravo, and please pass the hufu!
No, humans most certainly do not taste like
chicken. They taste most like pork. Just ask
any cannibal.
This fact is well-documented in any number of
slightly soggy but spicy notebooks left behind
by missionaries.
human flesh actually tastes like beef but a bit sweeter and not as tough.
i know this because i have ate flesh and hufu tastes identical to it.
hufu is a very real thing, i advise ppl to try it, its really nice!
sam bee ate some hufu
If i can find it i'll try it, though i dont think it will taste like chicken.
"Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Imagination: The Essential Ingredient in Hufu
... We of course conducted considerable research into the taste of human flesh in developing the hufu concept, but sometimes you have to move ahead with imperfect knowledge. Hufu is meant to be a decent approximation of the taste of human flesh, but it was never intended to be a perfect facsimile. And without imagination, hufu loses much of its taste and effect..."