Avocados earned the nickname "Nature's butter" because of their creamy texture, their usefulness in baking, and their strange way of growing in stick-shaped bunches of four in the wild. Treat palates to a pat of guacamole with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Mexican cuisine at Jose's Courtroom in La Jolla.
Since 1972, Jose's has whipped up a menu stocked with authentic Mexican dishes ideal for silencing patrons' grumbling bellies. Tortilla chips can submerge their acutely angled elbows into guacamole ($4.49) or layered bean dip ($5.99), only to fall victim to a whole-body shattering from pearly gum-lined incisors. Masticate on entree-sized morsels such as Jose's surf 'n' turf, four sautéed jumbo shrimps accompanied by marinated steak ($19.99), or chili relleno, battered Anaheim chilies pumped with jack cheese ($8.99). The popular carne asada ($13.49) and pollo asado ($14.99) burrito plates—steak or chicken wrapped in a tortilla with salsa fresca, guacamole, cheese, and sour cream—fit perfectly in empty bellies or burrito-launching bazookas. Vegetarians can avoid meaty endeavors by ordering items such as the mixed tostada bowl with vegetables ($7.99) or the super quesadilla with melted jack cheese and veggies ($7.49).
Patrons can sip from Jose's collection of tequilas or margaritas while admiring the dining room's artistic centerpiece, a large mural of restaurant regulars depicted in the style of The Last Supper. On breezy afternoons, diners pile up on the patio and ogle scenic views of the Pacific Ocean or invisible panoramas of the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Groupon Guide to: Obscure Magic Tricks
In recent years, stage magic has waned in popularity—in part because of the growing cynicism of audiences that have been desensitized by the Hollywood "magic" of blockbusters such as Thor, as well as the watching and rewatching of videotapes that capture the "magic" of childbirth.
To win audiences back, magicians will need to shed such dusty old standby tricks as pulling a rabbit out of a hat or finally telling your parents you are a magician. Consider learning one of these more obscure magic tricks, guaranteed to surprise and titillate even the most hardened skeptic:
- Cramming a surprising number of rabbits into a hat
- Correctly identifying a playing card with your taste buds
- Drinking a whole thing of milk super fast
- Reassembling the components of a human skeleton into a plausible concept vehicle
- Pulling a potato chip from behind the ear of a senator
- Borrowing $2,500 from your brother-in-law's house-painting business, then doubling it
- Emerging from a coma with gray, thinning hair in place of the full head of jet-black hair from before the helicopter tragedy
- Cutting a saw in half by repeatedly slamming your assistant into it
- Finding a place that will deliver this late
- Whoops, drowning!
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