While many people wish to be circus clowns, most fulfill their big top dreams by smearing barbecue sauce around their lips in a simulated greasepaint grin. Achieve your harlequin hopes with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of barbecue fare at Newberry's Backyard BBQ located in Newberry on W. Newberry Rd.

Newberry's Backyard BBQ soulfully dishes out ribs by the rack, pork by the pull, and sides by the spoonful to diners hankering for heavenly smokiness. After scanning the vast menu, start off with a seasoned helping of sweet potato fries ($6.25) or fried ravioli ($5.95) before plunging mouth bones into sandwiches ($6.25–$9.25) smuggling juicy morsels of pork, beef, turkey, and more. All sandwiches, midday meals, and delicious dinners are served with at least one succulent culinary sidekick (choose from a hunger-fighting roster of potato, coleslaw, baked beans, applesauce, and more). Enjoy a light meal with a chamber salad ($8.49), beef up dinners with a hot-off-the-grill NY strip ($16.99) or rib eye steak ($14.75), and get faces deliciously dirty with owner Rocky Voglio's tasty baby back ribs ($10.99 half rack, $16.99 full rack).

Newberry's Backyard BBQ unveils a breakfast buffet Friday through Sunday, allowing diners to sate appetites after marinating in sauce-drenched dreams all night. Additionally, all items from their kid's menu are served on take home-able Frisbees, ensuring many heated arguments with family dogs over who gets to lick off the sauce and then bury the remains between couch cushions.

Reviews

Yelpers give Newberry's Backyard BBQ an average of four stars.

• Ahhhh.....a relaxing drive over to Newberry...for the BEST BBQ!!!!! I absolutely LOVE all of the food here. The BBQ chicken and ribs are the best. – Connie C., Yelp
• Normally I am not a fan of whole bbq chicken but they have the best tasting and juiciest chicken in the state. – Ron K., Yelp