Desserts are the toys of the food world, able to cheer up even the grumpiest child after a long day of jury duty. Hear no objections with today's Groupon: for $7, you get $14 worth of coffee, cupcakes, and ice cream at FAO Cafe, located inside FAO Schwarz.
FAO Cafe, where palate owners take in the flavor of handmade desserts and sugar-sprinkled coffee drinks, sits within the treasure troves at world-famous toy store FAO Schwarz. Guests can marvel at Sarah's Cupcakes ($4.50), which crumble under the weight of teeth faster than a bolt of lightning shot out of a cannon. Put make-believe tea-party skills to use with coffees from illy, which harvests arabica beans from South America, Central America, India, and Africa to conjure lattes ($4.10–$5.10), espressos ($2.60–$4.10), and cappuccinos ($3.85–$4.85). FAO Cafe's kitchen team also puts out a spread of locally crafted Doughnut Plant donuts ($3.50–$3.75), which are made from scratch and enough mental focus to ignore a nearby refrigerator morphing into a person. Visitors can also nibble other taste-bringers such as ice cream, shakes, cookies, and brownies.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Summer Hibernation
Like most animal species, humans instinctively conserve metabolic energy and seek respite from the sun by hibernating during the summer. Here's what your body is up to while you lie torpid throughout the sunny season:
Ambulating: After your body automatically collapses at noon on the summer solstice, your muscles will instinctively drag you to a cool, safe place, such as a roadside ditch or a forest cave filled with protective, blue-bottomed mandrills. (The mandrills will expect you to use your newly accumulated strength and spend the month after your awakening to lift boulders for their amusement.)
Circulating: As you hibernate, your heart ceases pumping and your body instead relies on strong summer winds to push blood to your organs. Because you require less energy, you'll survive on nutrients from leaves that blow into your mouth. To keep you cool, your scalp will retract any hair growing out of it. (Your retracted mane also serves as a sponge that soaks up unhappy memories.)
Dreaming: Although your body has been reduced to a dormant pile of skin and fingernails, your mind remains active, often creating realistic false memories of actually being awake during the summer. Popular hibernation fantasies include reading about summer hibernation on a daily-deal website, somehow enjoying lime-flavored beers, and getting married (this explains the high percentage of summer weddings).
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