Rita’s Italian Ice is introducing Peeps flavored Italian ice.
To celebrate, they’re giving away FREE chocolate covered Peeps this Sunday, March 27.
To get yours, be one of the first 500 guests at Rita’s that day.
To find the Rita’s near you, click here. There are stores in Lake Worth, Royal Palm, Delray Beach, and more.
The Peeps Italian ice flavor is available through Easter, which is April 4.
Your day just got a little sweeter.
Ben & Jerry’s is offering a free ice cream cone (any flavor) in their annual Free Cone Day! giveaway noon to 8 p.m.
You don’t need a coupon, but you might need patience, especially if you que up after the school day ends.
Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating new flavors, including Maple Blondie, Milk & Cookies, and Peanut Brittle.
To find a store near you, click here (and be sure to specify shops that participate in Free Scoop Day)
Earlier today, 
Starbucks declared today “free pastry day.” Sweet.
Customer had until 10:30 a.m. to claim theirs, with purchase of any drink. They needed to present this coupon to their barista.
Starbucks also accepted coupons presented on mobile devices. The offer was good for one free pastry per customer and supplies were limited. (What’s your favorite Starbuck’s pastry?)
Super fun: Map pinpoints parties, more
For the past several months, Bob Miller has played a key role in staging this year’s South Florida-hosted Super Bowl. But his efforts don’t involve anything remotely related to the showdown next Sunday between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts at Sun Life Stadium.
Instead, Miller is fixing homes in a neglected Miami neighborhood.
“I won’t even be going to the game,” says Miller, who chairs Rebuilding Together Miami, an organization that’s partnering with the National Football League on this community-minded venture. Read the full story
Early risers, take note: The first 50 people at the following five Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants on Sat., Dec. 19, beginning at 7 a.m., will receive TWO FREE TICKETS (worth $78.00 per pair) to the Dec. 27 Dolphins-Texans game:
Palm Beach County
o 2001 10th Avenue North, Lake Worth
o 11575 U.S. Highway One, Palm Beach Gardens
Martin County
o 7850 SW Lost River Road, Stuart
St. Lucie County
o 1401 SE Village Green Drive, Port St. Lucie
For more information about the giveaway, Dolphins fans are invited to follow @DDSoFla on Twitter at www.twitter.com/DDSoFla.
Indian River County
o 900 U.S. Highway One, Sebastian
Costumed kids get one free doughnut of their choice from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday (Halloween) at Dunkin Donuts in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie & Indian River counties.
No purchase necessary. There is a limit of one doughnut per child ages 12 and younger.
Find your nearest local Dunkin Donuts here.
The featured doughnut for the season is the Boston Scream, a Boston Kreme doughnut with a decorative orange squiggle on top.
After giving away more than 50 bagels last Monday, Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company is ready for a possible doubleheader of FREE bagels.
Because the New York Giants defeated the Oakland Raiders 44-7 Sunday, the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, 14451 S. Military Trail in Delray Beach is offering a FREE bagel to Giants fans today (Monday).
Read the full story
Friday night has lights. Monday and Sunday nights have football. But at Rhythm Cafe, Thursday night, until the end of the summer, has cupcakes.
And that’s enough to get me there. Read the full story
Nothing says summer quite like a Klondike bar.
This summer, six Klondike stickless bar varieties now have a thicker, chocolatey shell – with 25% more chocolate coating.
Varieties include Original®, Krunch™, Double Chocolate, Whitehouse Cherry, Dark Chocolate and Neapolitan.
To see the many ways that Klondike is celebrating these new treats – and to see just how far ice creams fans will go to get their hands on a Klondike bar – check out Klondike online.
The origins of the Klondike® bar can be traced back to Switzerland and the Isaly Family, a family known for fine dairy products. William Isaly founded the Isaly Dairy Company around the beginning of the 1900s. The original Klondike® bar was handmade by dipping square slices of ice cream in pans of rich, delicious Swiss milk chocolate.
The family produced the bars in Ohio just outside of Youngstown and in Pittsburgh. By the 1940s, the Isaly family had several dairy plants that supplied more than 300 Isaly Dairy stores. Klondike® bars were sold in all the stores.
Until the 1970s, the Klondike® bar was sold only in Pennsylvania and Ohio. In 1978, distribution expanded into Florida, followed by New York and New England. In 1982, a nationwide advertising and publicity campaign was launched with the tag, “What would you do for a Klondike bar?” Soon Klondike®bars were available in the majority of U.S. supermarkets.
Pauline MacArthur, 94, center, sings to Fred Bowen- Smith, right, of Hobe Sound, and Gene Stenger, of Pittsburgh, left, while at Harry and the Natives restaurant on Wednesday. MacArthur, the matriarch of the restaurant, still comes to work six days a week. (Sara Grille/The Post)
Harry & the Natives cafe
Smile, natives. It’s a spectacularly routine day.
In Hobe Sound’s most iconic café this means a gator burger with a side of twisted humor, real-deal Florida funk and a tableside song from Mom.
Mom is Pauline MacArthur, four months shy of 95. A farm-raised Michigan girl of hardy stock, Mom still comes to work at 6 a.m., six days a week, serves breakfast and keeps the books.
Oh, and she sings.
“When you’re smiling, when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you…” she crooned on a recent weekday as lunchtime waned. “When you’re happy, when you’re happy, the sun comes shining through…”
Mom has been the matriarch of Harry and the Natives since its previous incarnation, when the place was a one-stop hub called The Farm and it served as a motel, a Western Union post, a Greyhound bus stop and a gas station.
Mom has been here, in the pecky cypress splendor of it all, for 57 years. She and her husband, the late Jack MacArthur, bought the place in the spring of 1952 and settled in Hobe Sound with their three young daughters. Later, they had two sons, the younger of whom is the restaurant’s namesake, Harry.
Harry started working at the restaurant when he was old enough to carry water glasses to the patrons. Like his siblings, he pumped gas, cleaned the motel cottages, fussed about in the kitchen, and soaked in the blissfully unorthodox philosophies of his parents.
Pauline MacArthur, 94, clockwise from bottom left, poses with her son, Harry, and daughter, Paula, at Harry and the Natives restaurant in Hobe Sound. ( Sarah Grile/ The Post)
“My parents would tell me, ‘You have to make someone smile every day,”” recalls Harry, who went on to travel the globe, surf in Hawaii and work as a hotel executive chef before coming back to The Farm, three years after the 1986 death of his father.
Serving community, too
The once-vibrant restaurant had been running as a beverage-only place for a few years, when Harry approached his mother about a revamp. With Mom’s blessing, he remodeled the kitchen, dreamed up a new menu and renamed the establishment Harry and the Natives.
The place was reborn, but it kept its vintage soul, its walls and tables appointed with relics of the days of community gatherings and weekly covered-dish dinners, of the Old Florida spirit of hard work tempered by attitudes as breezy and salty as sea wind.
It still served World Famous Pancakes à la Jack MacArthur at breakfast. It dispensed snippets of the MacArthur family humor on the menu, listing “cash, dishwashing, silver rolling, honey dipping, oceanfront homes, table dancing” as acceptable forms of payment, in addition to Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
And it still featured Mom, a song on her lips and a big red hibiscus flower in her hair. She’s the woman you’d like to be when you grow up, an energetic soul fully engaged in life. She walks every day. She grows orchids and roses. She writes crisply lettered longhand. And, most inspiring, she takes requests.
This is a woman who volunteered at the Manors nursing home in Hobe Sound on her only day off, running bingo games, baking sugar-free cookies and regaling the residents with fresh flowers. She did this until she turned 94.
It’s no wonder her son Harry has made his own mark as a humanitarian and community force, helping locals through his Natives Helping Natives charitable organization.
“Always give back. You have to. That’s how we were raised,” says Harry, 51, whose seriously noble deeds contrast sharply with his not-so-serious fashion sense. He’s the guy with the whimsical get-ups, the shark hat, the joke T-shirts. He wears tuxedo shorts to fancy galas. That guy.
Anniversary gift to patrons
Now, as the family café approaches its 20th anniversary in September, the MacArthurs will celebrate the way they always do – by doing something nice for their customers. For the entire month of August, they’re serving free coffee and cold drinks.
No need to plan a big celebration, says Harry, not when everyday life is a party.
“It’s pretty special that we’ve been able to work together,” says Harry of the partnership with his mother, who lives next door to him and his family in Hobe Sound.
When she hears him say this, she smiles.
“There’s been no trouble at all,” she says. Her oldest daughter, Paula, an artist, is also working at the restaurant. And as is family tradition, the entire clan gathers for dinner on Mondays, the only day Harry’s is closed.
Service with a song
Before the family bought the restaurant, it had been through a slew of owners. But for the Mac-Arthurs, it was a magical place. It’s where Jack came to heal from a back ailment, after spending years sailing freighters on the Great Lakes. Hobe Sound brought him health and rebirth.
“Here, he would swim in the ocean every day, sometimes twice a day,” recalls Mom, her face framed by green beaded eyeglass holders. “There would have to be a hurricane to stop him from swimming.”
So it is fitting that the restaurant has survived for nearly two decades, running on sea breeze and a sizable helping of MacArthur gusto.
Mom rediscovers the magic of the place each day, as the regulars show up for breakfast. What song will she sing for them? She has no idea. But she knows one thing: It’ll make them smile.
Every weekday for a month, someone reading these posts and sharing their knowledge will win a generous bag of cool groceries. Why not you?
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When you win, we’ll contact you about how to collect your bag ‘o yummies in a reusable, eco-friendly shopping bag (Thanks, Whole Foods, for the bags!).
Watch this space for new questions and prizes every weekday for a month!
The bags contain lots of new foods you might not have tried. A few prizes are coupons for free items which will be sent to you, at no cost. Each bag also has extra packets of grocery coupons.
Every bag is different, but some of the items included are: Hungry-Man meals, Lance whole-grain snack crackers, Crisco olive oils, Skinny Cow ice cream treats, Wickles pickles, Penzey’s cinnamon, Orbit gums, Pepperidge Farm 100-calorie packs and granola cookies, Tyson products, Truvia sweetener, Eagle Mills Ultragrain flour, Zen Crunch, Dunkin Donuts, and lots of grocery coupons, too.
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