To fufu or not to fufu that is the question

Our adorable site monitors Eddy, Eric, Jordeo and Water and our Felix our equally as adorable translator love to give me a bad time about fufu.  They are determined that I should eat it.   At a recent meeting I asked them what their mothers would make for them as a treat when she wanted them to know that she loved them.  "Fufu"...(cassava flour and maize flour cooked together into a lump of....well a lump)  "No no no, I mean when it was your birthday or some time special" I cried!
The resounding response, "fufu"....all accompanied with huge rounds of laughter.  So I said, "I am going to show you what I made for my kids when I wanted to give them a real tread and I brought in a huge platter of homemade chocolate chip cookies and containers of cold milk.  Do you think they turned it down?  Nope not a crumb left.   Then I asked them if they had any idea where I could find some tortillas.   I had checked at the market  for tortilla chips to go with taco soup but when I saw the price tag of $17 for a 4 oz bag that was probably stale I tried to find corn or even flour tortillas, "I will make my own chips"!  The guys response to my question about tortilla's was, "ummmm what is a tortilla?".  After describing my beloved taco soup and how it is topped with tortilla chips, their faces resembled mine when they described fufu.  (green in color)  I was determined so at the market I picked up a little package of corn flour. "I will start from scratch and make my own corn tortillas then I will toast them into tortilla chips, I will show them. "   It didn't take long to realize what had been labeled corn flour was corn starch.  Undaunted I made flour tortillas.  Well they were ok, but my quest continues but I will not pay $17 for a bag of tortilla chips. 

My homemade tortillas

Fufu mix available at Fresh World in Herndon, VA