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What to order: Slider Inn’s Melty Mary is more than a liquid meal

By , Daily Memphian Updated: August 19, 2025 11:37 AM CT | Published: August 19, 2025 4:00 AM CT

Some people refer to a traditional bloody mary as a “liquid meal” — not just because there are often the same number of calories in the cocktail as there are in a cup of yogurt — because of the optional and edible accoutrements that many bartenders and restaurants add to take it from cocktail to full-on bar snack.

And no one does bloody mary accoutrements like Slider Inn. In fact, it’s so beyond the basic cocktail that it had to be renamed: The Melty Mary is like nothing you’ve ever seen.

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Ellen Chamberlain

Ellen Chamberlain

Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.


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