The best pizzas, like the worst Elvis impersonators, are cheesy, saucy, and often live in cardboard boxes. Sink your teeth into a doughy classic with today's Groupon: for $7, you get $15 worth of take-home pizzeria fare from Mama Nina’s Pizza in Virginia Beach.
The pie craftsmen at Mama Nina’s construct and bake pizzas, calzones, and other doughy delights. Patrons can carry off a 14-inch specialty 'za fashioned in the thick, square Sicilian style ($15.99) or in the more familiar New York style ($13.99). Beef, pepperoni, and other meats mingle harmoniously atop the meat lovers’ pizza, and the Greek-style pizza replaces the three characters of classic drama with feta cheese, tomatoes, and olives. Minimalists can order a New York or Sicilian plain cheese pizza ($9.99–$11.99) or accept the world’s gradual slide into chaos by adding one or more toppings ($1–$1.50). A ham-and-pineapple-stuffed calzone ($6.99) adds Hawaiian flair to any lunch, and pasta-based entrees ($7.99), which come with breadsticks, imbue dinner with tangible and edible gravitas.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Choosing Produce
There's no worse feeling than when you buy what you assume is perfectly ripe produce only to discover it's too hard or have it dissolve into a pile of ashes in your grocery bag. Here are some tips for filling your basket with ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables:
- Broccoli: Drag the vegetable florets-side-up across your arm. Each should be firm enough to rid your forearm of unwanted hair.
- Cherry: You'll have to tear through the tasteless, inedible outer layer to test the cherry's high-protein, peanut-like core. Once you expose the cherry nut, swallow it and rate the pain you feel as it gradually moves down your throat. If it's less than a seven, it's too ripe.
- Apple: Smell an apple. Does it smell apple?
- Cantaloupe: Knock on it to determine if it's hollow. If it is, there's a gerbil living inside subsisting on the fruit's ripe core. Hurry up! You'll have to eat quickly to beat the gerbil.
- Pumpkin: This orange, round gourd shouldn't deflate easily, so repeatedly stab it with something sharp, such as a hunting knife or the tools doctors use to open their mail.
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