Ancient Egyptians often threw salt up to the heavens to bring rain, which is why modern humans throw pepper at vending machines to summon Diet Coke. Enjoy a showering of seasonings with today’s Groupon to The Beale, with locations in Rochester and Webster. Choose between the following options:

• For $15, you get $30 worth of New-Orleans style cuisine on Sunday through Thursday.
• For $30, you get $50 worth of New-Orleans style cuisine for four on Friday or Saturday.<p>

At The Beale, the rhythmic riffs of live-blues music float alongside aromatic scents of pit-smoked barbecue. To launch meals, diners can review or translate the café’s menu into Pig Latin before reeling in the Cajun-battered crawfish ($7.99) that populate platters of mudbugs. The half-pound Santa Fe burger totes a redolent cargo of monterey jack and peppers ($8.99), while slow-smoked pork ($13.99) and blackened delmonico steak ($18.99) step out from behind a grill’s billows. Apple-cider-glazed chicken breast comes with a sweet-potato crust ($12.99 for one breast, $15.99 for two), making for a culinary harmony unseen since the California Raisins dominated the airwaves. Capsize feisty appetites with the seafood creole, a sizzling lineup of shrimp, crawfish and deep-sea scallops ($19.99), or attempt to tackle the Concert ($39.99), which harbors enough whitefish, crawfish, brisket and pork ribs to feed two people or 0.14 Mark McGwires.