Writing the next great American novel takes commitment, courage, and the ability to seamlessly splice together passages from Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick. Start your next project in the ideal café setting with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get a punch card for any five drinks at Village Grinder (up to a $23.05 value).
Village Grinder's flavor-wielding baristas stock more than 70 varieties of fair trade arabica coffee beans as well as organic teas and Italian sodas, from which they whip together a bevy of hot and cold drinks. Lattes with fruity syrups such as cherry and strawberry imbue early morning sippers with the energy of a caffeinated child swimming through a pool of birthday presents; the sugar-free vanilla or hazelnut lattes keep minds calm and relaxed ($3.10 value for a regular). Customer favorites such as coffee chillers ($3.90 value), iced tea ($1.95 value), and smoothies ($3.90 value) made with yogurt or fruit tea slip down throats with a delectable frostiness. Laptop-toters can hook up to Village Grinder’s free WiFi while sipping drinks in an atmosphere designed to mimic that of a cozy living room, prompting patrons to relax and stare out the window at the neighbors.
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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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