Revenge is a dish best served cold, unless you're serving vengeful barbecue, which is best served warm and is only effective on enemies with wet-nap allergies. Instigate futile, hickory-smoked payback with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of barbecue and thirst quenchers at Stumpy's House of Bar-B-Que in St. Peters.

The kitchensmiths at Stumpy's pull and slice a meaty medley of dry-rubbed, hickory-smoked pork, beef, chicken, and fish depicted on the extensive menu. Introductory appetizers such as fried pickles ($4.99) and fried green beans ($5.99) warm up stomachs for an ambrosial main event such as the Stumpy special sandwich ($6.99 for a regular), a layered assembly of pulled pork or chicken smothered in homemade barbecue sauce and topped with coleslaw. The beef-brisket plate saturates cuisine depositories with tangy flavor ($7.49/lunch, $9.99/dinner), and the rib plate delivers xylophone-modeled St. Louis ribs to carnivorous craws ($6.99/4 bones, $9.99/6 bones) and can be paired with a cold bottle of Bud Light ($2.75). Feel free to rename the spatial dimensions after the three specialty sauces that Stumpy's kitchen whips up — original, smoky, and hot — or accommodate a young one with a selection from the Piglet menu, which slakes kid-sized hunger with an assortment of kid-sized portions ($3.49).

The corrugated aluminum wainscoting lends an industrial feel to the establishment, and sports-photo-peppered walls and tables inspire a recurring conversation topic among diners—red-eye reduction. Cushions cover each seat to pad posteriors, and red-and-white, checkered tablecloths and glass panels protect tables from monsoons of rich barbecue sauce.