Ancient Egyptians often threw salt up to the heavens to bring rain, which is why modern humans throw pepper at vending machines to summon Diet Coke. Enjoy a showering of seasonings with today's Groupon: for $6, you get $12 worth of smokehouse fare at R & R Bar-B-Que in Arcola.

R & R Bar-B-Que quells carnivorous cravings with a panoply of premium oak-smoked, sauce-slathered meats as well as hefty sandwiches and homemade sides. Choose from sandwiches teeming with sliced beef ($6.75), sausage ($5.95), or ribs ($6.95), all smothered in R & R's homemade barbecue sauce and smoked more slowly and carefully than a cigar over an antique VHS of Jerry Maguire. Three-meat combo plates find helpings of brisket, chopped beef, chicken, sausage, or ribs accompanying two made-from-scratch sides down diners' gullets ($10.95). After a dinner of meaty mastication, sate sweet teeth with homemade peach cobbler ($3.95) or buttermilk pecan pie ($2.95), two R & R dishes that never enter the smokehouse, except in their nightmares.