Barbecuing is a distinctly American art form, much like listening to jazz music and feigning an understanding of jazz music. Celebrate patriotic cuisine with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of barbecue fare at The Dream BBQ in Homewood.

Owner David Jenkins slings a homestyle menu of barbecue ribs by the rack, half slab, or bone alongside chicken wings and a slew of made-from-scratch sides. Patrons manifest their own appetizer destiny by itemizing chicken wings ($0.85 each) or by slathering hot sauce or mustard-based barbecue sauce on ribs ($1.75 each). Promote food group relations with a rib sandwich ($6.50) or finger-paint the collected works of Monet on napkins with a barbecue-rib combo, which houses a half slab of smoked ribs cradled by two house-made sides ($13.50). Smoked-turkey string beans walk spicy coals of steaming baked beans, then cool stems in a vat of sweet mashed yams, all available as à la carte items ($2+).