Half Priced Saturday

Not as cool sounding as Fast Food Friday (yesterday it was DD for breakfast, BK for lunch), but today's Half Priced Saturday was a unique one day opportunity.

It began with 1/2 off a pizza lunch courtesy of a Groupon, which I had initially mentally neglected in my summarization of my day. It continued with a visit to the bar at Radius where they were offering their burger at half price on Saturdays for the month of July. And concluded with half priced cheesecakes at The Cheesecake Factory where they were celebrating National Cheesecake Day.

Mr. Peanut Comes to Beantown

While peanuts are often considered nuts, I've heard that they are actually a member of the legume or bean family. Well, it seems the biggest peanut of all has decided to pay a visit to the city known as Beantown.

I was walking by Boston City Hall Plaza today when I noticed this huge peanut... and nearby, oh, there's another peanut all decked out with a top hat - it's Mr. Peanut!

Turns out it was the 1st day of a 2 day stop in Boston for the Planters Naturally Remarkable Tour before the Planters Nutmobile heads off to New York.

Samples of some kind of spicy peanut was given out both at room temperature and all warmed up. Photo ops with Mr. Peanut were not only granted, but quite welcome. And if you are the sporty sort, you could dunk a basketball, or toss a few beanbags. They'll be there tomorrow too from 11am - 6pm.

“Macy’s Chefs A-Go-Go” FOOD TRUCK!

A temporary food truck rolled into Boston this weekend and set up shop at the Prudential Center Plaza. This was a short stop on the nationwide tour of the Macy's Chefs A-Go-Go Food Truck, manned by a local chef from the Macy's Culinary Council. Today, our host was celebrity chef Ming Tsai, who was assisted in his mobile kitchen by his young sons.

It was my pleasure to enjoy gratis a yummy menu of Stuffed Bao of Hoisin Marinated Hanger Steak with Cucumber Kimchee & Samal Aioli. Strawberry-Yuzu Crumble Cakes, as well as Emeril's BaBAM! Foster Pop. While the samples were indeed free, and super-tasty, donations were being accepted for Feeding America, where every dollar donated would be used to feed 7 meals to those in need. Also, a free gift was offered to those who "liked" Macy's on Facebook or did something similar on Twitter (yeah, I'm not familiar with that...), which led to the funniest thing I heard there - "Stop telling people to "like" us. I'm running out of bags." =D

The event continues tomorrow from noon to 4pm with Todd English at the helm before he accompanies the truck to New York.