Not really breaking news or newsworthy, but for those of you that live in the upper South Hill area, you might be excited to know that Rocket Market is bringing in a sushi chef to slice up the fish Tuesday through Saturday. 

Or if you're vegetarian, the cucumbers and other fancy things that get put into sushi. 

The corner market and gas station announced the menu addition on their newsletter Friday afternoon. We haven't had a chance to stop by yet to try it out, but if you do, let us know how it is. 

The selected chef, Jae-Eob Jeon opened Sushi Sakai in Spokane Valley in 2010. According to The Spokesman-Review, Jae-Eob also goes by James and is a native of Korea where he worked in the restaurant business for 15 years and then moved to the Inland Northwest in 2005 to be closer to family.

(Updated 2:29 p.m.) - In some parts of the country, serving alligator meat in a thing. From personal experience, I can recall a BBQ off the side of some random highway in Florida that serves it up fried.

The chicken-like meat is available in Spokane at Huckleberry's according to the SpoCool blog. Why does that not surprise us? They even have elk, buffalo, quail and duck, in their freezers there.

If you've ever wanted to know how to cook it up for the family, there are a couple recipes online that could be decent for the dinner table. Food Network's website has 16 recipes for alligator including a "General Tso's Gator Alligator" and apparently there's a woman named Patty who has famous 'gator' recipes in Florida.

We also learned of some local uses of alligator. Chef David Blaine, Latah Bistro, says Downriver Grill will be cooking up alligator "nuggets" for Mardi Gras. He also informed us of an Idaho alligator farm where he's served up some of the meat before. 

Share: What's the strangest meat you've ever tried?

At the Corner Cottage in Hillyard, you can find pink porcelain pumps or painted tea pots. And if you bring the purple card you can also find some significant savings.

The card is the Spokane Grapevine Discount Card. The brain child of Monte Tareski, the $25 dollar discount card offers consumers a variety of discounts from local businesses across the region.

But it gets better. Local charities are selling the purple card, through local retailers, with 40 percent of the cost going directly to their programs.

That means for every card sold by Cancer Patient Care they get around $10. Melissa Halverson, the development director for Cancer Patient Care says, "We help with all those different financial areas even getting groceries or keeping the electricity on."