Half the fun of receiving a gift is weighing it in your hands, shaking it next to your ear to see what it might, and eating all the wrapping paper to reveal what’s underneath. Tear into the gift of fresh sushi with today's Groupon: for $8, you get $16 worth of create your own sushi at Eight Piece in Vernon Hills.
Eight Piece encourages edible ingenuity with a create-your-own menu of sushi rolls that customers can decorate with a variety of toppings and specialty sauces. Everyone starts with one of eight dressed-down rolls such as spicy tuna, tuna and cucumber mixed with spicy mayo sauce, or Philadelphia, salmon, avocado, and cream cheese. Next, guests top their rolls with one mixt topping including the rock 'n' roll’s baseline of oven-baked scallop, crabmeat, and masago with cream sauce or with two individual toppings such as white tuna and avocado or jalapeno and pineapple. Finally, sushi artists drizzle rolls with one specialty sauce such as wasabi mayo or chili sauce to cap off a creation as unique as a snowflake born on Leap Day (all rolls are $8).
Eight Piece also designs signature rolls ($8) matched with miso soup ($1.50) and four kinds of salad, including the fish-flecked 4 Season salad with tuna, white tuna, salmon, avocado, greens, onions, and sweet vinaigrette ($9.50).
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Curing the Common Cold
The common cold has baffled scientists and outraged doctors since the dawn of time, leading to a proliferation of less-than-perfect homemade remedies. If you're down and out with a wintertime cold, try one of these practical curatives:
Some Rest and Plenty of Water
Effectiveness: 1/10
How It Works: It doesn't. Your body is already made of water, so drinking more can lead to a dangerous oxygen overdose. And while resting, all of your body's parts, including your bloodstream, stop moving, allowing the cold to spread further.
Chicken-Noodle Soup
Effectiveness: 4/10
How It Works: Chickens cannot catch or transmit human diseases, so their hearty broth inoculates you against further sickness. Start by pouring hot soup on any infected areas, but be prepared to take the soup internally if symptoms persist.
An Extra Dose of Smallpox Vaccine
Effectiveness: 7/10
How It Works: The smallpox particles contained in the vaccine will overpower and wipe out your cold. The downside is that you will now have smallpox.
The Love of a Family
Effectiveness: 10/10
How It Works: No one who is truly loved can ever get sick. If you don't have a ready supply of loving family members, most hospitals will allow you to rent some surrogate children who will swear a legal oath of fondness for only a few dollars a day.
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