hufu

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Etymology

Blend of human +‎ tofu

Noun

hufu (countable and uncountable, plural hufus)

  1. Tofu whose flavor has been designed to resemble that of human flesh.
    • 2006, Alex Boese, “Food”, in Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S., illustrated edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 77:
      He wants to eventually offer varieties of hufu, but he's starting with just one: Hufu Classic Strips. These “will basically resemble the choicer flesh, which is upper arms, thighs and buttocks.”
    • 2010 March 1, Bart King, chapter XXI, in The Big Book of Gross Stuff, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 258:
      a human-flavored tofu called Hufu. The bean curd's flavor was based on what cannibals described humans as tasting like. The Hufu motto: It's the healthy human-flesh alternative.
    • 2014 August 21, Bart King, The Big Book of Girl Stuff, revised edition, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:
      Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.
    • 2016 August 16, Brianne Donaldson, Christopher Carter, The Future of Meat Without Animals, illustrated edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 242:
      So when Hufu gets the catchy slogan, ‘the great taste of friends’, it again points directly to long held philosophical division between so-called humans - who are always fellows or potential friends - and edible bodies that have no subjecthood.
    • 2017 January 25, Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 130:
      Sally's original goal was to teach all monsters, mainly zombies, how to survive "fleshie" onslaught. (Fleshies is a term  use to describe humans. It's fleshie or hufu. I think someone took hufu.) It was us zombies against the fleshies.
    • 2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218:
      HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . 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”