Tofu: Entire class of foods that have provided rich nutrition, texture, and flavour for everyone from poor rural farmers to emperors. Used for millenia.

Tofu’s perception outside of asia: bland jelly that makes you weak.

???

The “tofu isn’t masculine and is for the weak” thing is deeply funny, even aside from all the pro-masculine stuff in there. All my muscles are from tofu-gains, and there are vegan bodybuilders who bulked up on tofu.

Not sure. My local supermarket doesn’t have soybeans (edamame) tho, because they allocate it elsewhere.

I think that the generic “vegetable oil” listed in many ingredient lists is usually soybean oil.