$10 Deal: Pop’s Tamales made authentic Mississippi Delta style
Lee Crumb (right), owner of Pop's Tamales, and Joyce Shannon (left), a cook at Pop's Tamales, mix in some salt with ground beef as they season meat for cooking. The Orange Mound restaurant is a local hot spot known for serving both hot and mild flavor tamales. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)
At $2 apiece, packed with beef and spice, Pop’s Tamales are one of the city’s best deals. And getting them, from Pop’s cash-only little Orange Mound shop, is an experience unto itself.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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