Like backyard football, backyard barbecue requires strenuous physical labor and friends strong enough to hold off hungry defensive linesmen for hours at a time. Enjoy a savory meal without the rush with today’s Groupon to Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. Choose between the following options:

• For $7, you get $14 worth of smokehouse fare.
• For $49, you get $110 worth of barbecue catering. Customers can choose to have the catered barbecue delivered within Topeka city limits for a $10 fee. Delivery is not valid outside Topeka city limits.<p>

Each night, the staff at Dickey’s Barbecue Pit smokes USDA-prime meats over a hickory fire pit to pack a menu with pulled pork, turkey breast, sausages, and Virgina-style ham. Patrons sink their fangs into The Big barbecue sandwich, which swaddles a choice of tender meat in blankets of pickles and onions on fluffy hoagie cots to dream sweetly of Dickey’s tangy barbecue sauce ($5). Forego bread to fill a meat plate ($6.95–$11) with an all-star dinner lineup from a roster of sauce-infused meats and a multitude of savory sides that include jalapeño-laced beans, mac ‘n’ cheese, and fried okra. A Stuffed Baker ($6.50) potato lets meaty fillings hide in a veggie bounty like a shy scarecrow while guests chatter happily and sip iced tea.

Dickey’s cooks calm crowd-sized hungers with a catering menu ideal for livening up family get-togethers without inviting Capulets. Diners can surprise the entire office with impromptu box lunches, which encircle a succulent sandwich with a full accoutrement of sides ($6–$7 per person, 10 person minimum), or regale groups with bundles of meat, sides, rolls, utensils, and plates ($7.90 per person, 10 person minimum).