Hot dogs may be America's most cherished food, as evidenced by their immense popularity in such arenas as backyard barbecues, baseball games, and passport-photo stations. Enjoy a portrait of a Chicago classic with today's Groupon: for $6, you get $12 worth of red hots, cheese fries, shakes, and more at Mustard's Last Stand in Evanston.
Featured as "One of the Best" on Roadfood.com, Mustard's Last Stand dishes out classic Vienna pure-beef hot dogs cradled inside fluffy, steamed poppy-seed buns, crowned by the flavor-enhancing symphony of classic Chicago toppings and flanked by delicious fries. Vienna hot dogs ($2.79) come adorned with the essentials of mustard, relish, pickles, peppers, and tomatoes, ignoring the ketchup bottle like a poet ignores the greeting-card section. Corn dogs ($2.89) combine sweet outer crusts with beefy insides, and italian beef sandwiches ($4.95) and hamburgers ($4.95) steam the soft cores of buns and breads. Diners can spin on Mustard's classic counter stools while feasting on cheddar fries ($2.05 for a small), washing them down with soft drinks ($1.55 for a small) or thick milkshakes ($2.85) made with three scoops of one of 10 ice-cream options.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: What Makes a TV?
Enjoying television is as patriotic as knitting an apple pie or eating American flags. Here's a look at some of the components that make up these high-tech picture boxes:
• Glass: A high-end TV has a glass screen that when turned off (not recommended) will reflect your image. When turned on, it will reflect how awesome TV is.
• Cathode Ray Tube: No longer needed for modern TVs to work, but manufacturers still put one in every set just for old times' sake.
• Gold: TV signals, like men's hearts, are lustily attracted to gold, causing them to fly out of the sky into the gold brick in the back of every TV.
• A Couple of Horse Bones: 'Cause why not, right?
• Wires: They hook up to the wired helmets that all the actors wear to beam their acting into your TV.
• An Eternal Flame: To honor the former TV stars who have died.
• Tiny Fire Extinguisher: In case the eternal flame gets out of control.
• IBM PetaFlop SuperComputer: Guesses when you want to change the channel, lower the volume, etc., all to cover up the fact that the remote control doesn't do anything.
• Martin Sheen: He's gotta live somewhere.
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