"hufu" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.”",
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          "ref": "2010 March 1, Bart King, chapter XXI, in The Big Book of Gross Stuff, Gibbs Smith, page 258",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.",
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          "ref": "2016 August 16, Brianne Donaldson, Christopher Carter, The Future of Meat Without Animals, illustrated edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 242",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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”",
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