That's the Headline of the Day for me.
It's in the NYT:
The tofu and the truck languished in the ravine for three weeks while the private towing companies that had been hired to clean up the mess tried to confirm that the trucking company had enough insurance to pay for the job....
The Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District has referred to the mess on its Facebook page as “the infamous Jerome Tofu Monster” and the cleanup as “the Great Battle of Jerome.”...
It sounds like they gave the smelly blob a name, but Jerome is the name of the Missouri town where the truck crashed.
The tofu accident was not the first food-related truck crash in the area. Last August, Chief Williams said, a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of rib-eye steaks went up in flames on Interstate 44 [20 miles from Jerome]....
So 40,000 pounds of steak and 20 tons of tofu? You're asking me to believe that within one year, there were 2 giant, fragrant food wrecks with exactly the same weight of food?
Whatever. Good story.
Like most people, I prefer the smell of burning steak to that of rotting tofu, but you've got to know there is some small percentage of people who'd prefer the tofu. Right? The strict vegetarian.
IN THE COMMENTS: FullMoon said, "Sounds like a '50s horror movie. Alien Tofu combination Body Snatchers/The Blob."And I say, yeah, but more like "It Conquered the World" — AKA "Cheepnis":
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I thought tofu was already rotted when fresh.
Easily answered question, from google AI: "The maximum standard gross vehicle weight (GVW) for a commercial truck on U.S. interstate highways is 80,000 pounds"
40,000 lbs of load plus the actual trailer and truck weight likely leads to a small safety factor to keep the gross weight just under 80,000 lbs.
Missouri.
What does it feel like to be hit by a wall that unfolds over the course of 3 weeks? Why would the town allow this to continue while the insurance issue gets worked out? What if they didn’t have enough coverage? Just leave it there?
Yeah, it's the same max load because they don't make any money shipping air.
At least it's not natto. Wait a while and the tofu runoff will be literal soy sauce.
Sounds like a '50s horror movie. Alien Tofu combination Body Snatchers/The Blob.
Obligatory, Tofu Stench good name for heavy metal band
What did you mean by that, DAVE!?
Tofu is often sold in little rectangles that resemble bricks, but the gooey tofu doesn't have much in common with hard and solid bricks. Tofu "hitting the city like a brick wall" evokes or provokes an image of a city being hit with a wall of tofu -- a very different experience.
We use brick to refer to both things shaped like bricks and bricks themselves, so if we ask "What are bricks made of?" the answer would be "brick" and we would be none the wiser.
All in all it's just another stink in The Wall...
Teh Great Tofu Snafu.
30,000 Pounds of Bananas - Harry Chapin
And he sideswiped 19 'neath parked cars
Clipped off 13 telephone poles
Hit two houses, bruised eight trees
And blew-crossed seven people
It was then he lost his head
Not to mention an arm or two before he stopped
And he smeared for four hundred yards
Along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania
All those thirty thousand pounds
Of bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGldNpngDws
I don’t have any tofu material. Maybe because I don’t even know what’s it made of. It sounds funny though. If you ever feeling down, just keep saying tofu and watch yourself cheer up immediately.
Immediately is a Trumpian word btw.
@Lem Vibe Bandit: Tofu is soybeans
Fresh soybeans = Japanese edamame
Soy milk when coagulated = tofu
Soybeans fermented a bit = miso, sticky natto (whole beans)
Soybeans fermented by Indonesians = tempeh
Soybeans fermented all the way = soy sauce
Etc.
Although I've been known to eat it, I always thought it was a bad day when too much tofu was on my plate. OTOH Midwest farmers grow a lot of soybeans and export them.
MoFarmer:
Just thinking back to the old Big Eight days.
Although this would seem to be my time to shine, I have nothing informative or witty to add. I did make some kick ass Tofu Bahn Mi this week, that received rave reviews from the family. Keys are crispy fried tofu and fresh pickled radishes and carrots.
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