Saturday January 8th marks what would have been Elvis Presley’s 76th birthday. To honor the anniversary of his birth, I decided to finally try making the famous PBB&B sandwich. For those of you unschooled in the ways of the King of Rock and Roll, the story goes that some time in early 1976 Elvis was hanging out at Graceland with some of his buddies (presumably in the Jungle Room), when the topic of the Best. Sandwich. Ever. came up. Next thing you know, they are all boarding his private jet the Lisa Marie, headed for Denver to fetch this sandwich, the Fool’s Gold Loaf, from the restaurant that invented it. You can read the whole story here.
Admittedly I had to stray from the commercial recipe to adapt to the home kitchen. I just could not figure a way to deep fry a whole loaf of bread at home. Here are the key ingredients:
To make it, start with the peanut butter,
Then the bananas. There are two schools of thought—slice lengthwise or crosswise. I think you can cover more territory this way:
Next, the star ingredient. Three slices of crispy bacon.
Put it all together and you have my version of the Fool’s Gold Loaf, the Fool’s Gold Express:
You know how the story ends. 18 months after the fateful trip to Denver, Elvis expired on the toilet.
Don’t try this at home.
TCB <flash>
A sandwich to die for
ReplyDeleteYou HAVE TO spread the pb out to the very edges! HAVE TO!
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