During my cash-strapped college years, I worked at a sub shop that had hitched its trailer to the rising smoothie/fresh fruit juice trend. The store's efforts were dubious at best, yet for a short time, they proved lucrative to our chain. Billed as all natural, healthy, and frugal (at $5 a pop) our top-secret smoothie concoctions consisted mostly of TCBY-style frozen yogurt and scoops of frozen fruits that would sit in a plastic tray in a drawer until they had thawed... More >>>