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ConsultingGirl and I went here to catch up and have some coffees.

Cafe Artigiano is a great place to get lattes and a great place to really enjoy it. I never like taking their lattes to go.

Plus, why would you want it to-go when you can sit and stare at their marvelous creations?

Starbucks don’t have anything like this, unless you go to the few locations which they have baristas that know how to do latte art.  Cafe Artigiano is famous for their amazing baristas, they have even won championships. Yes, there are barista art contests.

Some may say that the coffee just looks good, but does it really have taste? Of course it does! At least the lattes that I have had were really good.

Website: http://www.caffeartigiano.com/

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I am delaying my other blog posts to talk about a magical delight called TURDUCKEN!

After hearing about this a few years ago, I attempted to build the Turducken, but deboning poutry is really really hard!! Clearly I failed and just sauteed all the meat to make a stir fry. After this hard endeavour, I vowed never to try this again.

I was roaming around Facebook, I found PhotographyGIrl’s picture of a Turducken. Apparently they sell frozen ones at Save-on-Foods. I ventured there today to find this delectable creation.

After digging through a few frozen turkeys, I found the Turducken. There wasn’t a price, but I didn’t think It would be too expensive. I lined up at the cash register and they told me it was $89.99 and it’s on sale for $85.99. The turducken was not that big, so I didn’t think the price of it was justifiable.

I clearly couldn’t make this purchase or else my mother and sister would slap me. For $80 you can make yourself a decent Turkey Dinner for your family.

Sites to help you prepare turducken:

On a recent episode of How I Met Your Mother titled “Happy Turturkeykey Day”, Ted fixes a parody dish called Turturkeykey. I thought it was funny.

Has anyone attempted making a Turducken before? Any tips? Did it taste as good as you imagined?

What happens when you bring 3 asian women to Mc Donalds when the Monopoly promotions is on? We like to beat the odds of anything. We tried to get 6 stamps to see if we would win anything.

In most Mc Donalds Meals, you will get 4 stamps, BUT if you turn the medium fries into large fries, you get a total of 6. This only applies to Big Macs, 10 Piece Chicken Nuggets, and Egg Mc Muffin.

Count them! 14 stamps and ALOT of calories. Technically we had 16 stamps because we had to exchange the Big Mac because it’s was missing a few ingredients. With 16 stamps in total, you would think we would win at least 2 items.

We opened all them up and we only won one small root beer!

After we started sticking all the stamps onto the game board, we almost filled it up but we were always missing that one rare stamp that no one could get. We even looked it up on Craigslist.

Look, it’s an irregular fry! I thought it was cool.

We weren’t disappointed or anything. We thought we would give ourselves a very weird challenge. Perhaps this is a marketing ploy from McDonalds to get their customers to spend more on the certain items that have stamps?

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We spent about a few hours at a meeting for SFU’s Largest Networking event – Marketers Night so we got super hungry and decided to do this.  If you love Canucks, Whitecaps, Mountain Equipment Coop and Endeavor Snowboards…come out to this event to meet the brains behind their marketing strategies!