Breaking bread is a bonding experience, encouraging new friendships while testing the strength of communal sledgehammers. Swing into sustenance with today’s Groupon: for $40, you get a three-course dinner for two (up to an $82.99 value) at Efendi’s Mediterranean Bar & Grill in Cranston. The dinner includes:
- Any one appetizer (up to a $14.99 value)
- Any two entrees (up to a $26 value each)
- Any two desserts (up to an $8 value each)
At Efendi’s Mediterranean Bar & Grill, Chef Efendi wields more than 30 years of culinary experience to populate a menu with Turkish-inspired Mediterranean victuals. Portobello bruschetta or morsels of Norwegian smoked salmon, flecked with cream cheese and capers, kick off an evening spent attempting to bend forks with telekinesis amid apricot walls, gold-fringed mauve curtains, and a fireplace surrounded by stone. Entrees of fresh sole fillets, stuffed with shrimp and garlic, arrive to the brick patio whose tables also welcome the weight of chicken sautéed with walnuts and blanketed in tangy pomegranate-molasses sauce. On occasion, the shimmy of a belly dancer provides a coin-tinkling soundtrack as dinner companions fork into a homemade dessert from a daily rotation of sweets, warming to the idea of adopting the baklava as national currency.
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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