Elvis Presley had huge appetites — for women, sure, but also for food. In 1960, James Gregory wrote The Elvis Presley Story (via the Independent) which details the Southern boy’s penchant for gigantic, heart-stopping Southern-style breakfasts. “Elvis loves enormous breakfasts complete with sausage, bacon, eggs, fried potatoes, home-baked rolls, and coffee.” In 1981, Presley’s uncle, Vester Presley, and a Graceland cook named Nancy Rooks, published The Presley Family Cookbook, which featured some of the King’s purported favorite foods, like fried squirrel and something called “Pepsi-Cola salad.”
In the 1995 BBC special The Burger and the King, longtime Graceland cook Mary Jenkins discussed Presley’s eating habits, particularly his fondness for butter-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and how she once snuck Presley a bag of forbidden hot dogs when he was hospitalized. “The only thing I get any enjoyment out of is eating,” Jenkins said Presley once told her. Verso y Prosa
But back to peanut butter sandwiches because probably nobody loved them more than Elvis. In the ’70s, he discovered Denver restaurant the Colorado Mining Company and their ridiculously over-the-top food challenge: the Fool’s Gold. It consisted of a loaf of bread slathered with a jar of jam, a jar of peanut butter, and a pound of bacon. Elvis took the challenge twice.
The Dark Truth Behind Elvis
Elvis Presley had huge appetites — for women, sure, but also for food. In 1960, James Gregory wrote The Elvis Presley Story (via the Independent) which detai
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