While the calculator's easy-to-read screen revolutionized the math world, it was the pizza's ability to easily teach children fractions that devastated the abacus industry. Divvy up a meal with today's Groupon: for $6, you get two adult buffets or two one-topping pizzas at CiCi’s Pizza in Niles (up to a $12 value with tax).
The physics-defying bakers at CiCi’s supply satiation to the superhungry with an endless buffet array of pizzas, salads, pastas, and desserts. A team of dough Michelangelos tosses and sculpts the disks from scratch daily, blanketing them with red or white sauces and a plethora of piquant toppings. The buffalo chicken showers spicy slices of poultry atop a bed of whole-milk mozzarella, and the mac 'n' cheese escapes from constrictive bowls and casserole dishes for unbroken plains of well-baked bread. Simple cheese and single-topping pizzas calm rudimentary appetites craving pepperoni, sausage, or mushroom slices. Palates ready for a real commitment can cozy up to two large thin-crust pizzas, and buffet partakers can test green thumbs at the salad bar and dessert buffet, parading specials such as warm apple pizza and cinnamon rolls.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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