Pay R15 for two slices of Shelly’s Canadian French Toast at Shelly’s Coffee House, valued at R30 (save 50%)

Just like a grizzly bear kitted out in a tuxedo doing the Waltz, while the conductor cues the band with a soup ladle, unusual combinations can be interesting. Today’s Groupon is a tribute to the wonderfully unusual with a mixture of savoury and sweet: Canadian French toast consisting of two slices of French toast sprinkled with grated cheese and bacon, drizzled with your choice of sweet chilli sauce or syrup for R15 at Shelly’s Coffee Shop.

Shelly's Coffee Shop is the perfect little place to grab a cuppa and a bite to eat. Situated in Charlo, this trendy coffee shop with its black and white décor is warm and inviting. With a cosy setting inside or the choice of basking in the sun on the deck outside, Shelly’s Coffee Shop will surely become your favourite spot in town. With today’s Groupon you will be spoilt with a delicious meal of Canadian French toast, a dish that will have you belting “Oh Canada” with pride.

French toast is known as a Christmas time treat in Portugal and Brazil, and an Easter dessert in Spain. The earliest official mention of it in history is in the Apicius, a collection of Latin recipes dating back to the 4th or 5th century. Luckily for you, you won’t need to learn the words to “Gaudeamus igitur” off by heart or bribe a Spanish Easter bunny for a bite of this delicious meal.

Canadian French toast is a slight variant of the usual treat but is just as scrumptious: two slices of French toast sprinkled with grated cheese and mouth-watering bacon, drizzled with your choice of sweet chilli sauce or syrup. If bears knew how to use computers and didn’t have gigantic paws incapable of holding a knife and fork, they would get down to Shelly’s for this Groupon special. Eating your French Canadian toast next to Theodore the Grizzly while he reads the financial section of the newspaper would make for quite an interesting morning.

French toast fact: In the roaring 1920’s a woman known only as “Crazy Mrs Shoeman” attempted to fly across the Pacific in her light aviation plane fuelled only by olive oil and pieces of French toast. She believed that the French toast would be broken down into fuel in the airplanes tank. She abandoned this ambitious adventure and went into mourning when her pet parakeet flew away.