Dreamland BBQ
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John "Big Daddy" Bishop opened Dreamland in Tuscaloosa's Jerusalem Heights in 1958, and for years the menu barely moved: hickory-fired pork ribs, white bread to catch the drippings, and the tangy Dreamland sauce sold by the bottle. This is the original — a cinder-block room off Jug Factory Road where the ribs still come off the pit the way they did six decades ago. The brand has since spread across Alabama and into Georgia, but Tuscaloosa is where it started. Ribs, sauce and white bread: the order that made the name.
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