Chefs in the ancient Middle East invented the pita to snugly wrap their meats, coddle their hummus, and provide a safe pocket for their favorite baseball cards. Store delicious ingredients in an appropriate place with today's Groupon: for $8, you get a pita-wrap meal for two at The Pita Pit (up to a $16.88 total value). This Groupon is valid at locations in Isla Vista, San Luis Obispo, and Valencia. The meal includes:

• Two regular pita wraps or salad combos (up to a $6.49 value each)
• Two small drinks and two cookies or bags of chips (a $1.95 value each)

The chefs at The Pita Pit stuff fresh white and wheat pitas with patrons' choice of more than a dozen toppings, 14 sauces, and four cheeses. Like placing sequins on a turtleneck, diners customize their pitas to taste, but the eatery's menu suggests premade configurations such as the spicy black-bean vegetarian pita with an array of garden greens and the prime-rib pita, which cossets taste buds with tender slices of beef. Sink herbivorous fangs into the falafel pita or give a coliseum-style thumbs-up to the chicken caesar pita filled with bacon and parmesan cheese. Any wrap can slip off its pita to seduce tongues in the form of a salad loaded with toppings such as hummus, cucumbers, and pineapple.