A cheese pizza is a blank canvas just waiting to be decorated with pepperoni to symbolize life, onions to symbolize sorrow, and pineapple to symbolize fruit. Eat something meaningful with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of pizza, grinders, and Italian fare at Hartford Road Pizza in Manchester.

The pizza slingers and grinder stackers at Hartford Road Pizza have honed sauces and refined recipes for comforting fare in a family-friendly setting. Diners can rev mouth motors with appetizers or dive tongue-first into dinner with two-topping large pies ($18.25). The eatery's doughsmiths craft a variety of specialty pizzas, such as the hot and spicy bedazzled with tomato, spicy sausage, chicken, mozzarella, and cherry peppers hotter than a string bikini on a cactus ($19.50 for a medium). Other hunger hamperers include grinders such as the capicola ($7.25 for an 8"; $12.50 for a 16"); the fagioli soup, a pasta and bean dish in a broth pool of garlic, olive oil, and variety of spices ($2.50 for a cup; $4.25 for a bowl); or an entree of chicken parmigiana ($13.95). Adult-size Groupon customers can gift this deal to an empty Christmas stocking or to their youngsters, who can illustrate favorite census statistics using cheese pizzas ($7.25) from the kids' menu as pie charts.