{"id":2579,"date":"2009-08-25T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2010-08-26T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T07:11:25","slug":"mission-6-meat-you-on-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Mission #6: Meat you on the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: The scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got second place out over 300 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The Mission:<\/b> Take a creative photo with Ryan Farr of 4505 meats or one of his products<\/i><\/p>\n

After doing the Chicken Dance<\/a> video, I headed back to the Mission via the J taking the long route home. On the way, getting off at 18th and Church, I passed by Bi-Rite.<\/p>\n

Chicharrones! Of course, I never had it before. But I knew from some teams’ initial photos with the 4505 Meats man that he sold chicharrones at Bi-Rite Market. I immediately stepped inside. In preparation for Obvious Tourist<\/a> mission, I picked up French bread. Then I wandered throughout the small store looking for this thing…called chicharrones. <\/p>\n

I had no idea what they looked like…dried meat? Were they like beef jerky? I had a confused look on my face until someone asked me if I needed help. I stuttered out the word chiiiii-ka-ROANS?<\/i> The guy tapped another guy…who rolled his R’s as a native Spanish speaker…oh chikaaarrrrones?<\/i><\/p>\n

The first guy pointed in some direction. I gave him a blank look, not sure what he was pointing at. Embarrassed, I didn’t want to say that I didn’t know what he was talking about and simply said, “Where?”<\/p>\n

He finally had to lead me to the display and point to the bag. Oh, thanks!<\/i> I said gratefully.<\/p>\n

They were $2.99 even though you could get a huge bag of them for 99 cents at the Walgreens around the corner from my apartment.<\/p>\n

The small bag sat in my apartment for a week as I contemplated what to do with them. Me sitting down with a plate of chicharrones and a plate with the plush hambone? Too basic and uninventive.<\/p>\n

Then Chris was sent to the Thursday Ferry Building Farmer’s Market to meet Ryan Farr. He was wearing his favorite t-shirt. That night, I had a talk with Littlefoot and thus the resulting photo appeared.<\/p>\n

\"Mr.<\/a><\/p>\n

The caption is: DINOSAURS ARE FRIENDS, NOT FOOD!<\/p>\n

The day after the street food festival, I finally opened the bag that was now somewhat crushed. I took a bite not sure what to expect. It was like the rice crackers with Chinese peking duck…but it was spicey…flavorful. I drank water immediately. Chris loved it and I told him to eat the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: The scavenger hunt is over (a concluding post will come soon) and we got second place out over 300 teams! This is a series explaining the background and thinking of our missions of the SF Street Food Scavenger Hunt! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,36],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gogame","tag-street-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}