Hufu

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
 This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please improve the article by adding references. See the talk page for details. (December 2008)

Hufu was a spoof product, supposedly a soy-based food product designed to resemble human flesh in taste and texture. The Hufu website was in existence from May 2005 to June 2006. The creators claimed that Milla Jovovich coined the term after hearing about the product's development while on the Eurostar from London to Paris.[citation needed]

Contents

[edit] History

Hufu was touted as "the healthy human flesh alternative" for "cannibals who want to quit", as well as a product for anthropology students studying cannibalism. According to its website, hufu is also "a great convenience food for cannibals. No more Friday night hunting raids! Stay home and enjoy the good healthy taste of hufu." Hufu has now been taken off the market due to a lawsuit. The spokesman of the product explained "a cannibal using the product to help quit sued for false advertisement saying it was nothing like the real thing!"

Mark Nuckols (founder and CEO of Hufu, LLC)—then a student at Tuck School of Business—claimed that the concept of Hufu occurred to him when he ate a tofurkey sandwich while reading "Good To Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture", a book on cannibalism by anthropologist Marvin Harris. [1]

[edit] Publicity

Samantha Bee of The Daily Show has interviewed Nuckols. In the interview, he said "I think that a lot of the pleasure of eating the Hufu product, is imagining you're eating human flesh. For that moment, you can join the fraternity of cannibals... If you really want to come as close as possible to the experience of cannibalism, Hufu is your best option." Nuckols was also interviewed by a variety of radio and print media, including The Harvard Crimson and The Stanford Daily.

[edit] Closure of site

The Hufu home page closed as of mid 2006. According to Mark Nuckols, he closed the website simply because "the world has moved on past hufu, and the site was more expensive to run than it was worth."

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nuckols is also an honors JD graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.Interview with a Cannibal, Kevin C. Hudak interviews Mark Nuckols

[edit] External links


 This food-and-drink-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu"
Personal tools
Languages