in other "chocolate from blood" news

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.

the Illinois Mycological Association: enthusiastic about fungal lifestyles

On fungal lifestyles:
( it is bound to be considered a parasite, simply because it can't move and can't bite big chunks out of its host )

( One of the very few fungi to certifiably go extinct is Echinodontium ballouii. )

( two species of orchid (lacking chlorophyll) known from Australia that grow, flower and fruit entirely underground, deriving their entire life's nutrition from parasitizing a mycorrhizal fungus )

( a cartoon showing a smirking fungus holding keys and a billy club standing in front of a bunch of algae (floating unhappy faces) imprisoned in a vaguely biological-looking jail) )