His take included two pieces of bread, spread thick with creamy peanut butter, topped with sliced or mashed banana, crowned with thick strips of bacon, and fried in a skillet. It's this sandwich that's since become known as The Elvis, and variations of the King's signature snack appear ...
Elvis Sandwich 3tablespoonspeanut butter 2sliceswhite bread 1banana, peeled and sliced 3slicescooked bacon Directions Spread the peanut butter on one side of one slice of bread. Top with sliced banana, then slices of cooked bacon. Cover with the other slice of bread. Spread butter on the out...
It has been 20 years since Elvis wolfed down his last peanut butter-land-banana sandwich. But it's not hard to see why the record industry, emerging from its worst year in a decade, still misses The King. Witness the 125 gold and platinum records that adorn the walls of Presley's ...
That’s where the King regularly sat at this downtown diner during regular visits for his beloved peanut butter and banana sandwich. But Arcade’s history extends beyond Elvis. Opened since 1919, it lays claim as the oldest restaurant in Memphis. From the robin-egg-blue vinyl booths to the...
When Butler was first announced as Luhrmann's pick for the King, the notion of a blond, former child actor inhabiting the world of Elvis Presley seemed as strange a mash-up as a peanut butter and banana sandwich. But Butler's performance is earning raves from critics and the Presley family...
Presley’s go-to snack was a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. His former cook Mary Jenkins Langston detailed the process of finding the perfect recipe in a 1996 BBC documentary The Burger & the King. According to Priscilla Presley, Elvis rejected Langston’s first five attempts at maki...
“She’s a Super Elvis fan. So if I said something, she corrected me if I was wrong,” says Minton. They even got to visit the historic Sun Studios, sit in Elvis’s regular booth at The Arcade Restaurant, and try his favorite sandwich, a grilled peanut butter, banana, and...
Attendees will be able to walk through a replica of Graceland, where they might catch a whiff of Elvis’s favorite fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, hear snippets of interviews or famous concert backstories and feel the ambiance shift as they move from the calm of his private life to...
Elvis loved his fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches at any time of day: “Prepared in a skillet full of butter, the sandwich bearing the rotund ruler of Graceland’s name consists of toasted bread, peanut butter and slices of banana with bacon occasionally tossed into the mix. Langston...
6. What was Elvis’ favorite sandwich? A. ham and cheese, B. peanut butter and banana, C. smoked pork 7. How old was he when he died? A. 39, B. 42, C. 47 8. What was the name of Elvis’ private plane? A. Moonraker, B. Pretty Priscilla, C. The Lisa Marie 9. What was...