Summer is a time for refreshing cold drinks and outdoor adventures. It's a time for iced coffee and sun glasses. It's a time for... smoothies! And today I experienced one of the best, strangest smoothie places ever.
It's tucked away in the basement of a building in HOPPIN' downtown Wakefield, Rhode Island (a town that proudly announces it is "alive after five"). When I first saw the sign for this place I quite honestly thought it was a strip club. I mean, it's called, "The Smoothy Booty." What is it about smoothies and butts anyway? I learned yesterday that "culata" is Spanish for "butt." So every time I get a coolata from Dunkin' am I getting a coffee butt?
Anyway, I digress... when I walked into the "Smoothy Booty" the first thing I noticed was that the place smelled strongly of what I like to call recreational anesthesia (also know as marijuana). These people, I thought to myself, truly are smoothie pirates! Smokin' the gange while they blend the fruits. I half expected for them to talk in pirate accents or something ("AHOY MATEYS! WHAT CAN I GETCHA?") But, alas, they didn't. In fact, the guy behind the counter was kind of a dead head (perhaps that explains the smelll?). He suggested to my friend, Tony, that he get "The Pirate's Revenge" with a shot of coconut "for good luck." It was one of those half-assed upsell techniques that seem all-too forced. But surprisingly (to me, at least) the smoothies were AMAZING. Really, I think it was one of the best smoothies I've ever had. It just goes to show that you can't judge a place by it's title...or it's smell...or it's workers.
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