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Found this on Pinterest.  Love it.

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Woo-Hoo!  Here it is. The actual menu list!
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(If you missed post #3 in this series, it lists our "random sale items" for a couple of weeks.  It'll explain why we used which fresh ingredients we used.)

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• The new batch of sales flyers that just came in the mail
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