Word: tofutti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remembered my trip to the ice cream store, sweet victory. They put on a front there, too. "Harvard, Columbia? They're both wusses. Oh. You're from Harvard? They are very intellectual schools," said Lorie, as she scooped me a peanut butter and jelly tofutti...
While available in plain vanilla, Tofutti best masks the aftertaste of its novel ingredient with strident flavors such as banana-pecan and forest maple. In Texas, the bestseller is made by swirling peanut butter and chocolate flavors together into something that tastes like a Reese's Cup. Aficionados swear Tofutti is better than ice cream. Says one: "If you eat it too fast, you even get the headache...
That is about the only unwelcome side effect. Tofutti is a dieter's and a cardiologist's dream. Blended with high-fructose corn sweeteners, it contains 128 calories in four ounces, about the same as frozen yogurt, but fewer than the 250 or more for premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction...
There are other frozen soy-based competitors. Ice Bean, for example, has been sold in health-food emporiums since 1976, and a new effort is reported to be in the works in Atlanta. But Tofutti seems to have the edge, and Mintz is looking to new horizons. He is experimenting with tofu-based drinks and a vegetable salad...
Says the tycoon of tofu: "I am close to this tremendous breakthrough. It is made of tofu and has the taste and smell of a beefburger." Given his marketing skills, it may not be long before Tofutti addicts sit down to the main course: a Big MacFutti...