Complaining about tofu being bland is the equivalent of saying that a blank canvas is boring.
Saying you hate tofu is such a self own. It is one of and maybe the most versatile food of all time. It is cheap. It’s macros are at parity with chicken breast. It keeps well AND is much safer (food safety and healthwise) than meat.
I can confirm as someone going from eating meat with every meal to vegan, basic ass fried tofu tastes better than most restaurant meat these days.
What is even wilder is that the US grows a lot of soybeans, and the ideal target for MAGA would probably be a soybean farmer.
I think the idea is that by boiling it in salt, you osmosis water out of the tofu; then, after removing the unequilibrated and still-hot tofu, which has soaked up some salt/flavors and lost some moisture (relatively, once it’s been cooled and patted down), is tastier and drier