Talk:Hufu (novelty item)

Titlespace change
Can we please change this to Hufu_Human_Tofu and have Hufu redirect to Hufu_clothing?

Because I guarantee you that if I search for Hufu, I'm looking for the clothing not the parody fake tofu. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:448:4300:3FF0:91C1:EFBD:6750:FBED (talk) 05:17, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Daily Show
They just talked about this on the daily show and I wanted to see more about it. This sounds kind of interesting.

VfD results
This article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. For details, please see Articles for deletion/Hufu. -- BD2412 talk 04:33, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Tofurkey Sandwich
I think anyone who eats a tofurkey sandwich has issues, much less a person who creates a tofu-based product that resembles human flesh. I also fear what was involved during the design and testing of this product. It seems to me that they would need to consult or hire experienced cannibals to produce an accurate resemblance. Scary shit. - Cobra Ky (talk, contribs) 01:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You know what parody means, right? Indium 10:48, 31 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Anyone who eats Tofurkey twice might be a little bit peculiar. But it does illustrate something - if people can't make a tofu product that tastes like turkey, how can anyone expect that hufu actually tastes like human flesh? At least people know what turkey is supposed to taste like.


 * You know what a joke sounds like, right? - Cobra Ky [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px]] (talk, contribs) 21:01, 4 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do. Do you?--RLent 08:26, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I don’t think the popularity of soy products is dependant of how much they resemble their meat-based counterparts. Swedish supermarkets sell numerous frozen meat analogues: “minced” soy (resembling minced meat), soy burgers, soy sausages, soy schnitzels, and so on. Even the brand of soy sausage I prefer tastes like a caricature of a hot dog. Yet I prefer the vegetarian version of pyttipanna because it contains more faux meat (soy burgers and soy sausage) than its conventional version contains meat. I think the popularity of soy products depends on how much the most likely eaters appreciate it. Please note that people can have very different taste. My favourite dish is pancakes but I know a Norwegian who does not like it because she associates it with poverty.

I think persons who kill other people to eat them in the West today are as mythical as Devil worshippers where in 14th and 15th century Europe. I do not deny that cannibalism has occurred but its distribution is often exaggerated. None denies that people have sometimes eaten their dead when they had nothing else to eat. Among Polynesians this seams to have been a relatively accepted way of surviving famine. According to Jared Diamond this was how the inhabitants of Mangareva survived the collapse of their society. Cannibalism occurred regularly on post-collapse Easter Island as well as late pre-modern New Zealand. In both cases the people in question suffered from chronic famine as a result of depletion of natural resources. Starvation may also explain the evidence for cannibalism found at Anasazi sites provided they where contemporary with the collapse of the Anasazi culture. More controversial is the existence of ritual cannibalism. The Aztecs are known to have practised cannibalism as part of their human sacrifices. The victims of these scarifies where typically prisoners of war since the propose of this ritual cannibalism was to frighten potential rebels. If they where taken prisoner they risked to be eaten up by high-ranking Aztecs in front of their own leaders! The Fore people in Papua New Guinea are known to have eaten parts of their dead at their funerals. They no longer do so but there may still be some members alive who ate human flesh as children. Those would be the only “experienced cannibals” I can imagine as accepting an offer to try hufu. People who have been cannibals out of sheer desperation would most likely be too ashamed of it to accept such an offer. Provided it is a real, existing soy product, that is.

2009-02-17 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

Parody category? Not really...
This guy went to the Tuck School of Business and is actually selling this product. It might be strange, weird, sick, exciting, or any other number of adjectives, but I'm not sure that it's a "parody", unless it's a "parody of humans"... Womble 18:39, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, now that I've read their website, I must admit that it is both (1) actually selling this, and (2) a hilarious parody. "Veal of the sea" ? .. wow...just, wow. ;-) Womble 18:45, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Is this real?
So is this Hufu thing real or not? Has anyone ever actually ordered Hufu and tasted it? And how do its creators know it tastes like human flesh? Have they actually eaten human flesh? &mdash; J I P  | Talk 20:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing they had taste testers who had previously eaten human flesh give them input. I wondered that myself. It is supposed to be real (Daily Show stories are on real things that are just strange, and I know that for sure because an anarchist group I knew about was onced featured, as was "toad tunnel" in Davis, which are both real). Some friends and I wanted to get some though for a party, but we haven't set any dates yet. If we ever do, I will try to remember to mention it here. The Ungovernable Force 06:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Personal opinion: It seems to be a hoax to sell T-shirts and the like. Every time I've visited the page there's been some random technical reason I've been unable to purchase any hufu. That includes Sunday, May 14, 2006, the time of this posting.

Consider yourself fortunate. I was able to order some, which never arrived. I don't know of anyone who got the hufu they ordered. And all attempts at being refunded have failed. It's a scam. The shirts are real, but the site will take your money and not deliver your product.

The site is gone, or is at least not currently available. I hadn't visited in awhile so I have no idea how long it's been down--obviously it hasn't been much more than a couple of months if someone was there in May. I'm not finding anything about them being shut down but I'll keep looking. A Runyon 05:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

All available evidence seems to indicate that Hufu is/was a scam. There never was any product. According to all anecdotal reports available via Google searches, no one who has ordered from the web site has ever received the merchandise he paid for -- whether t-shirts or actual Hufu. Also, many reports seem to indicate that correspondence with the Hufu manufacturer became extremely difficult when demanding a refund. Plus, the site has been down for quite awhile now. These are all classic hallmarks of a recently busted scam. I am going to add some information to the text of the article, to classify it as such. Dr Chatterjee 01:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I can't speak to whether he was running his site in good faith, but he did have a tasting here at Dartmouth while he was at Tuck. These signs you mentioned are also the hallmarks of a badly-run business gone bust.  What's the rule?  Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetance? 129.170.202.3 21:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I met this guy a number of years ago...he struck me as having good ethics, and I can't picture him deliberately cheating people out of their money. My guess is that the marketing end of "hufu" didn't quite take off, so he shut down, and let people reclaim the value of the purchases via PayPal, or their credit card, or whatever. He is definitely not a crook.

Joe 10/16/06

Consider this another "anecdote" if you like, but I know someone who ordered Hufu off of the website, paid 25 bucks, and never received their product, now a year and a half later. If this was just a failed business, Mark Nuckols must refund all orders. His evasiveness leads me to believe that this was definitely a scam. Cutter20 19:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I purchased and received three packages of Hufu in November '05. I still have one, unopened. What should I do to prove this wasn't a hoax? Nuwy 01:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Make a video of you opening, preparing and eating it, then post it on YouTube and provide a link. Alx xlA 01:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

It is like the Manbeef site, both fake. --81.1.105.184 (talk) 17:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Summer 2006?
Quoting dates based on seasons is factually incorrect, i do realise that wikipedia is based in the US but people should think about the rest of the world when writing articles (There is no summer in the tropics!). Propose that "Summer 2006" should be changed to Mid 2006. Is that too far out?

What about the fact that most of the world has summer in June-August? Alx xlA —Preceding comment was added at 20:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, that is true, most of the world does have summer between June and August. Except for that little part south of the equator, that is. BigFatDave 02:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

People which are relatively ignorant on geography and climatology tend to overestimate the commonness of their own climate. I know a woman who seriously wondered if the tropics did not have a little colder in the winters. In fact, only the parts of the tropics that borders to the subtropic zones have any considerable difference in temperature over the year. The rest of the tropics have no noticeable temperature differences. I wound prefer to use the words “summer” and “winter” about events taking place outside the tropics. This would mean calling the middle of the year “summer” in the northern hemisphere and “winter” in the southern one. If I need to explain when the dry and wet seasons occurs I would use expressions such as “southern winter” and “northern summer”. Otherwise I would use the names of the months. I think it is the most appropriate in this case.

2009-02-16 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.247.167.70 (talk) 19:20, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Is there a template to mark a particular discussion as stupid? I think everyone knows what summer means that speaks english. 98.127.17.61 (talk) 07:11, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

The point is that “summer” means different parts of the Gregorian year on the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

2009-08-16 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

ambiguity
This article doesn't make it clear whether hufu is a joke, a hoax, or a real product. The language in the article is ambiguous, and if it is not known whether it's real or not-and I should think it ought to be easy to find out-the article should clearly state that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.95.219.115 (talk) 13:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

You are right: it is unclear if this "hufu" is real or not. But it sounds like a joke to me.

2009-02-09 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

Yeah also, what is a "now fictional product"? It used to be real and now it's fictional? Adds to ambiguity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.85.53.114 (talk) 19:32, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Milla Jovavich?
If you can't even spell her name correctly or provide a citation, why even bother adding this information to the article? Farmdogg (talk) 07:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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