The models for muscular Italian sculptures toned their physiques by lifting barbells bookended with hefty meatballs and repelling into the Coliseum on ropes of braided noodles. Embrace the culinary might of Italy with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of Italian fare at Ciao Amore Italian Ristorante.
Ciao Amore's chefs pile its menu with house-made pastas soaking in italian sauces. The gnocchi ripieno envelops a gooey mélange of asiago, pesto, and ricotta and swims, like ancient Italian Olympians, in a creamy spinach and parmigiano sauce ($17.95). In the petti di pollo porcini, chicken breast sautés in a porcini mushroom wine sauce before sharing a plate with cheese ravioli ($18.95). Chefs prepare the ossobuco authentico beef shanks in ragú with tomatoes imported from Bacchus's victory garden, and accompany it with a side of pasta ($22.95). Desserts, including spumoni and tiramisu, add fluffy sweetness to saucy meals ($5.50).
An exposed brick wall wears artwork from local artists, illuminated by blue lights dangles from the ceiling. Crisp white linens outfit the tables that speckle sleek hardwood floors.
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The Groupon Guide to: Temperature Scales
To determine whether a soft drink is cool enough to put out a small mouth fire or hot enough to melt restrictive pants into billowing shorts, scientists turn to one of their many temperature scales. Here's a look at the most popular hierarchies of heating:
Fahrenheit: The only temperature scale grand enough for the wide-open land of freedom we call the U.S. of A. Using this commonsense scale, water boils at 212 degrees—212 being the exact number of minutes you can stick your hand in boiling water for before it starts to hurt.
Celsius: Named after St. Celsion, patron saint of apocryphal headache remedies, this illogical scale has water freeze at 0 degrees and boil at 100 degrees, even though 100 has twice as many zeroes in it as the number 0 does, so if anything, 100 degrees should be twice as cold as 0 degrees.
Kelvin: In the Kelvin scale, absolute zero refers to the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases. The only thing that can withstand this extreme temperature is the cold heart of a man whose will to live has been extinguished by a lifetime of regret and sadness, a.k.a. all men.
McKinley: Named after President William McKinley, who routinely governed with such musings as "I'm too hot to president today," and "I'm cold. Let's invade my fireplace with an army of grahamed crackers and marshed mallows." On this scale, 100 degrees is the temperature at which the Spanish-American War breaks out.
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