in other "chocolate from blood" news

[eub]

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0411/1117soysauce.html
Chinese soy sauce made from human hair is cancer causing and restaurants
throughout Japan could be using it, screams Asahi Geino (11/25).
[...]
"During the Pacific War (World War II), food shortages meant that the
soy beans used to make sauce instead became a foodstuff and hair was
gathered from barbers and used to make ersatz soy sauce," Satoshi
Noguchi, the boss of Noguchi Rihatsu barbershop in Kashiwa, Chiba
Prefecture, tells Asahi Geino.

Human hair makes an alternative to soybeans because it contains the
amino acids that give the sauce its flavor. Some say Chinese soy sauce
makers who use hair as an ingredient are posing a cancer risk because of
the powerful chemicals they use to extract the amino acids from human
hair.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

The link's outdated now (which suggests, actually, that maybe it was one from when I heard about this 6-8 months ago, or was it new?).

[eub.livejournal.com]

It isn't working for you? Huh.

This article dates itself as "November 17, 2004", but I'm puzzled by what sound like references to the future: "Asahi Geino (11/25)", "Shukan Jitsuwa (12/16)", etc. (A cover date that far ahead?)

I didn't hear at the time, but Boingboing posted a link to a different article in May.

[hattifattener]

something lost in translation in this sentence?:

Japan bans the use of soy sauce made from anything other than organic proteins, so the animal proteins in human hair sauce are naturally banned.

I also wonder why specifically human hair. Is hair from, e.g., dogs or horses not good enough?

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you'd think there would be an infinite supply of stuff like industrial wool lint waste.