Pop's Diner - Shrimp Basket - West Point, Virginia

The menu says that you'll get 21 shrimp with this meal, which I think, was $6.50, but that's a gross understatement. I chose mashed potatoes with brown gravy and green beans as my sides, neither of which had chunks of meat in them, but they were too similar to my grandma's southern cooking to be vegetarian. The shrimp were battered too thick and weak in flavor, however, the mash potatoes more than made up for this. I haven't had such creamy, salty, savory potatoes and gravy in years. It was mostly the gravy, a bastardized version of which can be had at Kentucky Fried Chicken. The green beans were suitably oily and overcooked. Ah, comfort food.