Barbecuing is a distinctly American art form, much like listening to jazz music and feigning an understanding of jazz music. Celebrate patriotic cuisine with today’s Groupon: for $7, you get $15 worth of barbecue from the Mad Maui BBQ Fusion food truck.
Mad Maui BBQ Fusion patrols the streets of Oceanside in its mobile food truck, rolling over hunger by slinging a slew of barbecue creations. The Mad Maui burger combines a sweet-chili-marinated beef patty with tropical fruit salsa, grilled onions, sesame seeds, blue cheese, and red cabbage, perfect for backyard games of edible Frisbee ($8). Diners can snack on two salsa-coated pulled-pork tacos ($5) or munch on Volcano nachos ($7), made with chipotle cheese and kalua pork. The cooks also dispense orders of sweet-potato fries or pineapple poppers to bolster meals and match behemoth appetites ($2.50 each).
Though always on the move, hungry nomads can find Mad Maui’s trailer at the Oceanside Sunset Market on Thursday evenings, the Mother Earth Brew Co. on Friday afternoons, and the Lost Abbey/Port Brewing Company on weekends. Check out the tracking page for other weekly appearances.
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The Groupon Guide to: Constellations
Earth's sky contains well more than 70 constellations, many with confirmed shapes and names. Here's a handy guide to connecting the dots through your next constellation conversation:
• Though constellations primarily contain stars, the occasional Soviet satellite or ruptured gas main can create a cool animation effect, making Orion appear to shoot an arrow or Ursa Major demonstrate its powerful fire roar.
• Due to the Earth's rotation, no two countries share the same constellations. Natural curiosity about other skies has served as the catalyst for some of mankind's greatest inventions, including the Internet, commercial air travel, and military conquest.
• At 282 stars, the most complex constellation is the Fall of Perseus, a multiple-chapter cosmological pictogram of the Greek mythological hero's battle with chronic joint pain (and also lions). Containing just one star, the least complex constellation in the night sky is the moon.
• The light from "shining stars" is actually light that left those stars eons ago—by now the stars are smoldering husks of ash and ether. Would you want to grab a coffee off campus sometime and discuss our own insignificance?
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