Eat Ribs the Way Dreamland Intended

Dreamland opened in Tuscaloosa in 1958, and for most of its history the menu was gloriously, defiantly short: ribs, white bread, and sauce. That was it. The ribs come slathered in a tangy tomato-based sauce, the white bread is there to sop it up, and the original location’s motto — “ain’t nothing like ‘em nowhere” — is the kind of brag a place only earns by backing it up for decades.