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The tofu product marketed as “the healthy human flesh alternative”

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 03, 2026
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Hufu was a tofu product marketed as

In May 2005, a Tuck School of Business student named Mark Nuckols launched Hufu, a tofu product marketed as “the healthy human flesh alternative for the cannibalism-curious.” The origin story: Nuckols was eating a tofurkey sandwich while reading Marvin Harris’s anthropology book on cannibalism when the idea struck him.…

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