Note: The 2010 scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got first place out of 121 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt 2010!
I don’t even remember what the original mission said. But it was first about a 80s band. Then a popular track…that somehow we figured out to be Caravan (thanks Joe). The mission said that it started with K and to go to the mobile lounge of deliciousness and do an epic scene.
When I realized that it was referring to Karavan, I knew what I had to do. I quickly emailed the friend who I planned to have lunch that Friday at the Moxise-sponsored Street Eats…because…I knew that Kara’s Cupcakes was visiting. I described my plight, apologizing that I was a little bit insane as part of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt…and that I would have to do something crazy while she watched. All for an “epic scene”.
I had met Cynthia a total of 4 times in my consciousness—at a reunion last year, once at Palo Alto Caltrain Station, another at a mutual friend’s BBQ, and finally at a happy hour. Barely what you would call “friends”…and here she was!
She emailed back shortly…with a script inspired by the first scenes in 2001: Space Odyssey.
EXT. STREET – DAY
OVER BLACK, theme to “2001: A Space Odyssey”.
At first musical impact, CUT IN to concrete background. Plain, uniform, boring.
Second musical impact: a cupcake RISES SLOWLY from seemingly nowhere. Rising, rising, until finally, it stops. The audience takes a collective breath. What is this amazing cupcake doing here? What is about to happen to this glorious cupcake?
Suddenly, a head enters the frame. SLOWLY AND DELIBERATELY MOVES towards the cupcake and TAKES A LARGE BITE, smearing gooey frosting all over their nose. With various crumbs clinging to their lips, the head TAKES A SECOND BITE, then A THIRD. Now, the mouth is full of delicious cupcake. So good, so tasty.
Triumphantly, the mouth captures the last bit of cupcake-y goodness, swallows, and basks in the amazing feeling that can only follow after devouring a cupcake in four bites.
FADE TO BLACK
I was so thrilled.
And when Friday, came around, I came with a backup plan. But we’re all set. I roped Chris into in it. I had gathered all my props—our whole collection of stuffed animals, random props…
It was warm…and I gulped down a gumbo from the Louisiana Truck. If had been any other Friday, I would have enjoyed it more, but it was up to me…to engulf the entire cupcake.
We spent several minutes behind the Karavan setting up with Chris cheering me on and Cynthia recording the entire thing on my handy Canon Powershot S90.
Because I read the rules, I decided that we could not use the 2001 soundtrack (although I balked later for other missions) and that we had to create our own. Both Chris and I “sang” the track. Fortunately, we decided that my attempt was not suitable for the general public (aka I was doing a public service for not sharing my horrible singing).
Then I spent the weekend trying to find out how I could get a cupcake flying in the air. This is why we had a stunt cupcake. Purchased for $1 two years when Mervyn’s was going out of business in Daly City.
I did engulf the entire cupcake. With paper. It was the strawberry flavor, FYI.
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