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!

Mission: The tamale from Whole Tortilla gives you superpowers! Whether it’s feeding the homeless or stopping bank robbers, show us your best superhero pose!

I don’t know how I got the idea—perhaps it was Cynthia. But I realized that I had to use ComicLife. I had used to previously for demonstrating scenarios while at CMU. But this…oh yes!

I investigated how to get Whole Tortilla, but to my chagrin, Whole Tortilla was only available on Sunday. At the Jack London Farmer’s Market. When I had already made a difficult slotting of a lunch with my family. It was impossible unless I sent my DFT comrades. Could I force my comrades to do such a task? But wait according to the website, they were at a local store, Lillah Belle. I rushed over in the morning. I scanned the entire store, which was full of super-expensive organic meals that I could make easier and cheaper even by buying organic ingredients. But it turned out that they did not carry Whole Tortilla tamales.

“Nobody bought them so I stopped making orders,” the woman at the counter said without looking up from her newspaper.

A few hours later, I had an idea. I called the Whole Tortilla number…and it turned out that she lived close to me. I rushed over and picked up several tortillas.