Breaking bread is a bonding experience, encouraging new friendships while testing the strength of communal sledgehammers. Swing into sustenance with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of upscale café fare at Caffe Fresca in Metairie.
Caffe Fresca's recently remodeled dining area contains hungry diners as they choose from a hearty menu of creative sandwiches, salads, and entrees. Sandwich sojourns can commence with the portobello deluxe, showcasing grilled mushroom gussied up with eggplant, onions, and cheeses on eight-grain bread ($12), or the greek grilled chicken, whose Aegean dressing evokes Mediterranean flavors and memories of squatting in the local-history museum's antiquities wing ($13). Center cut prime filets are served fresh from the grill ($29), and the 8 ounce Fresca burger stacks up on plates with layers of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, and cheese inside of a kaiser bun ($8).
Daily soups ($4 for a cup; $6 for a bowl) satisfy calendars and cold mouths in varieties such as baked potato, chicken and sausage gumbo, and red bean. Seafood combo platters deliver a triumvirate of butterflied shrimp, farm-raised catfish, and crawfish cakes ($17), and the 10-ounce center-cut pork chop with creole mustard glaze is, like an entitled robbery suspect, grilled to order ($17).
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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