Presley's fondness for peanut butter and banana sandwiches is well established; however, bacon is not mentioned in all accounts. A book about Presley and his mother, Gladys Presley, though, says he had "sandwich after sandwich of his favorite—peanut butter, sliced bananas, and crisp bacon".
Elvis favored classic southern sweets for dessert, and one favorite happened to be pound cake. Not just any pound cake but a particular one. The Sterns say pound cake for Elvis meant a cake baked by his childhood friend, Janelle McComb.
The Elvis: Peanut Butter, Banana and Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies.
It's no wonder this was Elvis's favorite cake. It's basically a pineapple poke cake, but in its own way. Apparently, Elvis used to ask his Grandma to make him this cake every time he visited, for good reason – and that's it's called Elvis Presley cake.
Did Elvis like breakfast? You butter believe it. "For breakfast, he'd have homemade biscuits fried in butter, sausage patties, four scrambled eggs and sometimes fried bacon," Langston told the BBC.
Note for his future wife: Elvis loves enormous breakfasts complete with sausage, bacon, eggs, fried potatoes, home-baked rolls, and coffee. He has a tremendous appetite at breakfast.
Satisfy your cravings with a classic treat - The Elvis Cupcake! This delicious cupcake is made with banana cake, creamy peanut butter frosting, and topped with a sprinkle of candied bacon. Enjoy a light and enjoyable flavor that's pleasantly sweet, without being too rich!
Chef Paula Haney shares with Duff the bakery's recipe for the Fat Elvis Pie, which was inspired by Elvis Presley's love of peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches. The pie includes chocolate pastry cream, peanut butter filling and slices of banana in a crust made of graham cracker crumbs, dry roasted peanuts and pretzels.
Elvis Food
In fact, Elvis' favorite foods included fried banana and peanut butter sandwiches (with or without bacon), fried biscuits, bacon-wrapped meatballs, chicken fried steak, jelly doughnuts, and vegetables high in salt and butter. Furthermore, Elvis ate these types of foods in large portions.
This "Fool's Gold Loaf" combined peanut butter, bananas, and bacon in a hollowed-out loaf of French bread, which was then deep-fried. Elvis was so tempted by the sound of this decadent sandwich that he flew everyone from Memphis to Denver in the middle of the night on his private jet.
So one year around Elvis' birthday, he decided to work the flavors of the crooner's favorite snack into the menu at his restaurants. Thus was born the Brock's Elvis Presley milkshake, a blend of ripe bananas, peanut butter, vanilla ice cream and bacon fat.
Barbecue Pork Pizza
Elvis loved pork. Reportedly, this was his favorite pizza.
Yep, Coletta's invented barbecue pizza pie in the 1950s and it was the King's favorite. The pie was topped with barbecue sauce (instead of tomato sauce), chopped barbecue meat and cheese. Elvis liked the pizza so much he had a charge account at Coletta's and Col.
The reception was a $10,000 breakfast buffet.
The newly married couple were joined by 100 guests for a champagne breakfast featuring lobster, oysters Rockefeller, roasted pig, and Southern fried chicken.
Among the moments combined into one scene are a Jacksonville, FL, concert where he wiggled his pinky in mockery of a judge's order to tone down his moves, and a 1957 Los Angeles concert where the vice squad filmed him to ensure he wasn't gyrating too much.
Presley apparently loved a peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich – so these are all naturally base ingredients of a good “Elvis sandwich”. Variations of the recipe abound, but none are likely to tick many diet goals.
Soft hints of jasmine, rose and cedarwood create a sophisticated and elegant scent that is perfect for any space.
Every meal he ate had to contain some sort of meat whether it be roast beef, ham steaks, boneless chicken, hamburger steaks, meatloaf, and of course Presley loved everything that had to do with bacon.
Yes, we all know that Elvis had a deep love for peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwiches, but he also had a stringent shopping list of items that he demanded to be on site at all times.
This Elvis burger will get you all shook up. The peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwich was a favorite of Elvis to the point where the sandwich often bears his name. There is a book about him and his mother, Gladys Presley, that says he talked feverishly until dawn while wolfing down the sandwiches.
According to one legend, the youngster Elvis hid the jar of Skippy peanut butter when company came to the house. He feared they would eat it. During his Army days, the refrigerator at the German house where he went when not on base was stocked with ground beef, bacon and brown 'n' serve rolls.
While Elvis famously wasn't a heavy drinker, his father once told the story of an overindulgent moment for “The King” involving peach brandy in his youth. Elvis is also said to have enjoyed whiskey in his early days.
Danny Smith admitted: “Elvis wasn't real fond of onions and strong-smelling seasonings.” His father, the star's first cousin, Billy Smith remembered that the singer particularly detested the taste and smell.
Marchese stated that Elvis would “obsessively eat one kind of food over and over until he became bored of it.” He did this with the classic combination of meatloaf and mashed potatoes and ate it every day for six months straight.