Houston's settlers built their city on a barbecue bayou, and for decades their city sunk 2 feet a year into the smoky, tangy quagmire until they found a solution: drain the swamps of the sauce and slather it on their ribs. Eat your way out of a hungermire with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of fare and drinks at Willie's Taste of Soul Bar-B-Que. Founder Willie whips up Louisiana-style fare, inviting diners to don bibs, goggles, scuba gear before diving mouth-first into a smoky molasses marsh. Pitmasters slow-smoke succulent ribs, beef, chicken, and homemade hotlinks in the restaurant's backyard, and then partition them into fresh-off-the-spit dishes such as the baby back ribs ($14.95). Unlike the bathtub, Willie's is a great place to bring a crowd, serving family-size meals such as the #3, a pound each of pork ribs, hotlinks, beans, and potato salad, a full chicken, and a side of bread ($48.80).
Reviews
Willie's Taste of Soul has been featured by The Seattle Times and the Post-Intelligencer; it has a 3.5-star average from Yelpers and comes recommended by eight CityVoters:
- Definitely go, and go hungry. The family combinations for two to six people … include enough good food (barbecue, two sides and cornbread) to leave your body — and your soul — satisfied. – Lynn Jacobson, Seattle Times
- But it's what's out back that made me drool in anticipation: stacks of wood and real barbecue cookers, the kind that look as if they're made out of old oil drums. Turner, who grew up in Tallulah, La., slow-cooks brisket, ribs, chicken, hot links and pork shoulder on those grills. The smoky quality doesn't come on too strong, but you can taste it. – Leslie Kelly, Post-Intelligencer
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Fictional Presidential Speeches
American movies are rich with fictional U.S. presidents, including memorable characters such as Don Butler, Franklin Pierce, and Bill Pullman. Movie-goers love these silver-screen heads of state for their stirring third-act speeches during times of crisis. If, as a screenwriter, you must craft one of these speeches, here is an all-purpose dialogue that works for any genre, from alien-invasion movie to monster-fighting movie:
My American fellows, the office that I hold has its ups and downs, its windfalls, as well as its various duties. And it is in the performance of the most trying of these duties that I speak with you today, to illustrate to my countrymen a harsh, inescapable truth. A storm is gathering, ladies and gentlemen. And in the gloaming darkness lurk the contents of our own nightmares. There is no denying that in the coming days, the coming hours even, we Americans will be tested. We will know pain and loss. There will probably be some disembowelings. But we have been tested before. In a Red-Coated New England winter, we were tested. On the fields of Shiloh, we gripped wood and steel and cloth. And today will be no different. My fellow Americans, today, I offer up this, joyful, hallowed refrain—one that you have no doubt heard on many other, happier, occasions; one that will forever have new meaning after today. My fellow Americans, look under your chairs. Your government has distributed among each and every one of you a Phase-IV Energy Rifle. Yes, that is correct. You get a rifle. And you get a rifle. Glen Fullerton of Des Moines, Iowa gets a rifle. As does little Suzy Hutchins of Passaic, New Jersey, who has to ride the train three hours a day to get to her magnet school. You all get rifles. And with them we will beat back the coming darkness. Their gamma rays shall light up the sky, signaling a new screaming birth for our triumphant nation. Americans who are my fellows, history shall remember this day with new meaning as the day our nation saw the flickering candle of freedom and relit it by the light of its people's courageous torches. This is our Arbor Day.
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