Breaking bread is a bonding experience, encouraging new friendships while testing the strength of communal sledgehammers. Swing into sustenance with today's Groupon: for $12, you get a diner meal for two (up to a $24.95 value) at Kermit's Family Restaurant in Bowling Green.

The meal includes:

• A choice of two whole breakfast, lunch, or dinner sandwiches or half tandoori sandwiches (up to a $7 value each)
• Two side dishes (up to a $2.50 value each)
• One specialty salad with a choice of grilled-chicken salad or tuna salad (a $5.95 value)

Chefs lovingly tend a grill to assuage appetites with a menu of homestyle classics inside Kermit's wood-paneled diner digs. Slide into a booth with a companion or competitive-eating recruiter to dig into the sandwich menu, which parades options such as the Kermit melt's five ounces of ground chuck and swiss cheese on grilled rye bread. Feast upon half of one of 10 tandoori sandwiches, including a bangers-and-peppers melee instigated by tough-talking irish sausage, sautéed peppers, and horseradish sauce. Diners navigate forks through the choppy terrain of tuna-crowned salads and resist urges to run through the fluffy piles of side dishes including corn muffins and coleslaw. Kermit's diner buzzes with friendly conversations as servers deliver hot plates to tables beneath walls decorated with displays of photos and decorative farming equipment.