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Ann Arbor offers plenty of spicy
drippin', finger-lickin'-good ribs

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By Tim O'Connell
Daily Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor lies
of Mississippi,
but when, you
sink your teeth
into Jesse
Campbell's
"Soul on a Roll"
barbecue sand-
wich at Mr. Rib's
Soul Food, you'd
hardly know it.
"I'll tell you
what makes me
h a p p y,"
Campbell said.
"It's seeing

2,500 miles north

The sandwich, Mr. Rib's finger-lick-
ing bestseller, consists of a mound of
hickory-smoked pulled pork soaked in
barbecue sauce
and a bed of
,. rich coleslaw

Ooui on aU 1Non
consists of a
mound of hickory-
smoked pulled
pork soaked in
barbecue sauce.

barely con-
tained in a
huge bun. Hot
sauce optional.
Worth all 450
cents.
Pulled pork?
Well, it's some-
thing like
brisket in tex-
ture. Pulled off
the shoulder

for $15.40. One regular described the
ribs as being so tender that a flick of
the wrist sends pork flying.
What dominates all of Mr. Rib's bar-
becue, whether ribs, pulled pork, beef
or chicken, is the deep hickory flavor
that penetrates the food.
Campbell, who grew- up in
Mississippi and has spent the past 25
years cooking barbecue around Ann
Arbor, credits his grandfather with
teaching him how to preserve meat as a
child.
"My grandfather kept a smoke house
in the early '50s," he said. "That stuff
kept with me."
Campbell smokes all the meat on site
-- in a hickory smoke house behind his
store.
"1 can do 320 slabs of ribs at one
time. That's 1,000 pounds of meat."
Mr. Rib also offers a slew of extras:
black-eyed peas, macaroni and cheese,
green beans, fried corn, beans, potato
salad, country greens, red beans and
rice and fried okra.
Don't be fooled by the strip-mall
location - Mr. Rib is the real thing.
You don't get any more genuine than
a rib joint that offers a UAW dis-
count.
But Mr. Rib is just one of several bar-
becue/soul-food establishments in the
area that are keeping their customers

FANS
Continued from Page 915
"It's all done in fun and games. When
it's done in good taste, it's OK," said
School of Natural Resources and
Environment senior Kevin Gracely.
But what is it exactly that Michigan
fans do? Michigan hockey games are
similar to a screening of the "Rocky
Horror Picture Show." There is an
unwritten script to the game that the
fans thrive off of repeating. The cues
range from the referee entering the ice
to the sound of a phone ringing. They
don't miss a beat in recognizing these
cues, instantly responding in unison
with the "correct" line. But where do
these come
from?
Alumnus 
Dave Donoghue t IS [1
believes many-
of the chants ap
may have been woulA not
borrowed from
other schools for anvthi
with hockey
teams, such as_
Harvard and
Cornell. Other BowlingGre
chants are more
than likely the product of imaginative
fans.
But do the fans actually matter in the
outcome of the game, or are they sim-
ply expelling extraneous hot air? It
depends on who you ask. According to
Michigan right wing Bill Muckalt, "the
ice is still the same ice, the puck is still
the same puck, and the net the same
size."
But Bowling Green defenseman
John Hustler has different thoughts

r
len

on the matter. "The fans can sway a
game one way or another, especially
when the game is really close,"
Hustler said.
Chuck Legg, father of Michigan
center Mike Legg,(recent ESPY win-
ner), said the crowd "absolutely
affects the game.- it gives Michigan
at least a one-goal advantage -
maybe two."
LSA junior Dan Ryan also believes
the fans matter in the outcome of the
game. "It gets the (rest of the) crowd
into (the game), swings the momentum
and keeps the players going," Ryan
said.
Aside from the winning ways of the
Michigan team, there are other factors
that excite the
crowd. Band
--director Jaime
grea test Nix is part of the
0andof the crowd
I inspiration.
Conducting is
Nix's forte. "The
d ~ band has a really
go big effect on the
Buddy Powers game - the
n hoc key coach crowd is in tune
to the game, the
band is in tune to
the game, and the band and crowd are
in tune. They feed off of us and we feed
off of them," Nix said.
Bowling Green Coach Buddy Powers
agrees. "The crowd interacts incredibly
with the game, especially the way the
band plays to the game with the crowd,"
he said.
Not only does Nix conduct the
hockey pep band, but he moonlights
as a dancer - that is, in the third peri-
od of every game, when Nix finds

himself continuing the tradition of
band conductor dancing that has been
around for years. Judging by the reac-
tion of the crowd, this appears to be
one of the crowd's favorite moments
in the game.. This is folowed by yet
another innovative Michigan cheer -
the fans point at Nix and scream,
"dancer," and then point to the visiting
goaltender and scream, "sieve." The
cycle then continues: dancer, sieve,
dancer, sieve.
According to LSA first-year student
Rachel Adams, "Nix is awesome. ...
You'd think he's the newborn of
Michael Jackson," she said.
One of the prime targets of the cheers
is the visiting goaltender. In addition to
cheers that accuse him of being a wire
mesh utensil for straining or sifting (a
sieve), as well as stating that his mother
thinks he "sucks," there are numerous
others.
"It may intimidate some players,
but it really does not bother me. I love
playing against it, I thrive off of it,"
Petrie said. He said that he can hear
the fans' noise and screaming, but
cannot decipher the syntax of their
cheers.
In any event, Michigan beat Bowling
Green, carrying its home-unbeaten
streak to 29 games. Whether the fans
affected the outocme of the game is
impossible to tell. The facts are pretty
hard to dismiss, however. After all,
Michigan has not lost at home since
October of 1995, and it is a fact that
Michigan fans are, at the very least,
enthusiastic. Whatever the case may be,
the situation is best summarized by
Bowling Green coach Powers: "It is the
greatest atmosphere and I would not
trade it for anything."

The Michigan hockey band


young people who haven't eaten here
come up and ask for the Soul on a
Roll,."

bone with the grain, Mr. Rib's pork is
stringy and delicious.
The place has ribs by the slab, too,

WARREN ZINN/Daily

Jesse Campbell, owner of Mr. Rib, stirs his secret recipe rib sauce.

happy with pork, beef, fried chicken
and all the extras.
DeLong's Bar B-Q-Pit, located in a 1
converted filling station across from theJ
Ann Arbor Farmers' Market, has served
up barbecue takeout for more than 30

The pork and beef dinners at
DeLong's are less stringy than Mr.
Rib's, and the meat comes in small
slices. The sauce is sweeter, and it may
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DRIVING
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