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{{Short description|Sandwich with peanut butter, banana, and sometimes bacon}}
{{Short description|Sandwich popularized by Elvis Presley}}
{{About|the Elvis Sandwich|a similar sandwich Elvis enjoyed|Fool's Gold Loaf}}
{{About|the Elvis Sandwich|a similar sandwich Elvis enjoyed|Fool's Gold Loaf}}
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| alternate_name = Elvis sandwich, the Elvis
| alternate_name = Elvis sandwich, the Elvis
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| creator = Unknown, but associated with [[Elvis Presley]]
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The '''peanut butter and banana sandwich''' ('''PB&B'''), or '''peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich''' ('''PB,B&B'''), sometimes referred to as an '''Elvis sandwich''' or simply '''the Elvis''', consists of toasted [[Sliced bread|bread slices]] with [[peanut butter]], sliced or mashed [[banana]], and occasionally [[bacon]]. [[Honey]] or [[Jelly (fruit preserves)|jelly]] is seen in some variations of the sandwich. The sandwich is frequently cooked in a pan or on a [[griddle]]. The recipe for the sandwich has been published in numerous cookbooks and [[newspaper]] stories.<ref name="zest">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ewIMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,1490855&dq=peanut+butter+banana+bacon+sandwich|title=Peanut Butter Sandwich Takes on a New Zest|date=September 7, 1983|publisher=St. Petersburg Independent|access-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> It is sold commercially in restaurants that specialize in [[peanut butter sandwich]]es, such as [[Peanut Butter & Co.]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop |url=http://ilovepeanutbutter.com/media/pdf/shop_menu.pdf |title=Sandwich Shop Menu |publisher=Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop |year=2013 |access-date=December 12, 2013}}</ref>
The '''peanut butter and banana sandwich''' ('''PB&B'''), or '''peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich''' ('''PB,B&B'''), sometimes referred to as an '''Elvis sandwich''', the '''Velvet Elvis''', or simply '''the Elvis''', is a [[sandwich]] with toasted bread, [[peanut butter]], sliced or mashed [[banana]], and occasionally [[bacon]]. [[Honey]] or [[Jelly (fruit preserves)|jelly]] is seen in some variations of the sandwich. The sandwich is frequently cooked in a pan or on a griddle.


The sandwich was made famous as a favorite of the American singer [[Elvis Presley]]. The recipe for the sandwich has been published in numerous cookbooks and newspaper stories.<ref name="zest">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ewIMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,1490855&dq=peanut+butter+banana+bacon+sandwich|title=Peanut Butter Sandwich Takes on a New Zest|date=September 7, 1983|publisher=St. Petersburg Independent|access-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> It has been sold commercially in restaurants.
==Elvis Presley and the sandwich==

==Elvis Presley==
The peanut butter and banana sandwich has been referred to as a favorite of [[Elvis Presley]],<ref name="salon">{{cite journal|last=Sietsema|first=Robert|date=August 14, 2007 |title=Hunka hunka burnin' bacon|journal=Salon|url=http://www.salon.com/2007/08/14/elvis_food/}}</ref> who was renowned for his food cravings such as the [[Fool's Gold Loaf]], a loaf of French white bread filled with a pound each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly.<ref>{{cite news
The peanut butter and banana sandwich has been referred to as a favorite of [[Elvis Presley]],<ref name="salon">{{cite journal|last=Sietsema|first=Robert|date=August 14, 2007 |title=Hunka hunka burnin' bacon|journal=Salon|url=http://www.salon.com/2007/08/14/elvis_food/}}</ref> who was renowned for his food cravings such as the [[Fool's Gold Loaf]], a loaf of French white bread filled with a pound each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly.<ref>{{cite news
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/ain-t-nothin-but-a-chow-hound.html
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/ain-t-nothin-but-a-chow-hound.html
| access-date = May 30, 2009}}</ref> Books on Elvis Presley's favorite foods and culinary tastes, as well as other published reports on his taste for peanut butter and banana sandwiches with or without bacon, have made the sandwich widely associated with Presley. It is often referred to using his name.<ref name="New York">{{cite book
| access-date = May 30, 2009}}</ref> Books on Presley's favorite foods and culinary tastes, as well as other published reports on his taste for peanut butter and banana sandwiches with or without bacon, have made the sandwich widely associated with Presley. It is often referred to using his name.<ref name="New York">{{cite book
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| isbn = 978-0-7432-5156-3}}</ref> 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". Another passage describes him talking "feverishly until dawn" while "wolfing" down the sandwiches (described in this instance as being made with mashed banana).<ref>{{cite book
| isbn = 978-0-7432-5156-3}}</ref> 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". Another passage describes him talking "feverishly until dawn" while "wolfing" down the sandwiches (described in this instance as being made with mashed banana).<ref>{{cite book
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| isbn = 978-1-57806-634-6}}</ref>


A news report suggests that, based on renditions of sandwiches named after him, Presley ate his with [[Caramelization|caramelized]] bananas and crispy bacon on grilled [[Hawaiian bread]], and grilled by his mother or his cook in bacon fat.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} ''The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy'' describes it as consisting of half a banana and a piece of bacon per sandwich, browning the sandwiches in a frying pan with butter, cutting the sandwiches into wedges, and piling them high.<ref name="The Good">{{cite book
A news report suggests that, based on renditions of sandwiches named after him, Presley ate his with [[Caramelization|caramelized]] bananas and crispy bacon on grilled [[Hawaiian bread]], and grilled by his mother or his cook in bacon fat.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} ''The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy'' describes it as consisting of half a banana and a piece of bacon per sandwich, browning the sandwiches in a frying pan with butter, cutting the sandwiches into wedges, and piling them high.<ref name="The Good">{{cite book
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==Variants==
==Variants==
The pb&b sandwich sandwich has had numerous variations, many of which were billed as "Elvis Presley's" or owing to "Elvis" himself. [[Nigella Lawson]] of the cooking show ''Nigella Bites'' featured "Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich" in a 2007 episode that was made of white bread, butter, a banana, and peanut butter.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/elvis-presleys-fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-recipe.html | title=Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich | publisher=Food Network | access-date=March 16, 2014 | author=Lawson, Nigella}}</ref>
The PB&B sandwich has had numerous variations, many of which were billed as "Elvis Presley's" or owing to "Elvis" himself. [[Hamburger]]s done Elvis style have become increasingly popular in the [[United States]] as well.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-10-29 |title=Elvis Burger - Tasty Peanut Butter & Banana Burger [Recipe] |url=https://www.burgerartist.com/recipe/elvis-burger/ |access-date=2022-06-27 |website=Burger Artist |language=en}}</ref> [[Nigella Lawson]] of the cooking show ''Nigella Bites'' featured "Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich" in a 2007 episode that was made of white bread, butter, a banana, and peanut butter.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/elvis-presleys-fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-recipe.html | title=Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich | publisher=Food Network | access-date=March 16, 2014 | author=Lawson, Nigella | archive-date=2014-03-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316182644/http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/elvis-presleys-fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-recipe.html}}</ref>


Another cooking show ''Sara's Secrets'' featured "The Elvis" with the [[Peanut Butter & Co.]]'s recipe, which includes 8 slices of bread, butter, a banana, peanut butter, 12 slices of bacon and honey.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-elvis-recipe.html | title=The Elvis Recipe | publisher=Food Network | access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref>
Another cooking show, ''Sara's Secrets'', featured the "Elvis" with the [[Peanut Butter & Co.]]'s recipe, which includes 8 slices of bread, butter, a banana, peanut butter, 12 slices of bacon and honey.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/the-elvis-recipe.html | title=The Elvis Recipe | publisher=Food Network | access-date=March 16, 2014}}</ref>


A variant on the sandwich is the peanut butter banana club sandwich, which combines the sandwich with a [[club sandwich]] by adding [[lettuce]], [[brown sugar]] and [[lemon juice]].<ref name="zest" /> Another version of the sandwich was sold under the name ''The Memphis'' at the "all peanut butter sandwich" restaurant P.B. Loco prior to the company going out of business, which added honey and substituted [[Bacon bits#Bacon bits|bacon bits]] for bacon strips.<ref name="pb loco">{{cite news|url=http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dining/articles/0112taste0112.html|title=P.B. Loco|last=Seftel|first=Howard|date=Jan 12, 2006|publisher=The Arizona Republic|access-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>
A variant on the sandwich is the peanut butter banana club sandwich, which combines the sandwich with a [[club sandwich]] by adding [[lettuce]], [[brown sugar]] and [[lemon juice]].<ref name="zest" /> Another version of the sandwich, which added honey and substituted [[Bacon bits#Bacon bits|bacon bits]] for bacon strips, was sold under the name ''The Memphis'' at the now-shuttered "all peanut butter sandwich" restaurant P.B. Loco.<ref name="pb loco">{{cite news|url=http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dining/articles/0112taste0112.html|title=P.B. Loco|last=Seftel|first=Howard|date=Jan 12, 2006|publisher=The Arizona Republic|access-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>


The sandwich has also been featured in a cookbook for canines in ''The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book''. The book suggests alternative fillings including sweet potato, carrots, pumpkin, and apples.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lisa |last=Fortunato |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qh1ymO4o1bEC&pg=PA190 |title=The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book |series=Everything series|publisher=Adams Media |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59869-431-4 |oclc=125403481 |page=190}}</ref>
The sandwich has also been featured in a cookbook for canines in ''The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book''. The book suggests alternative fillings including sweet potato, carrots, pumpkin, and apples.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lisa |last=Fortunato |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qh1ymO4o1bEC&pg=PA190 |title=The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book |series=Everything series |publisher=Adams Media |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59869-431-4 |oclc=125403481 |page=190 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/saras-secrets/the-elvis-recipe/index.html Recipe from Food Network]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130321021247/http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/saras-secrets/the-elvis-recipe/index.html Recipe from Food Network]
*{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Chillag |publisher=[[NPR]] |title=Sandwich Monday: "The (Sandwich That Helped Kill) Elvis" |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/09/27/130157016/sandwich-monday-the-sandwich-that-helped-kill-elvis |date=September 27, 2010}}
*{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Chillag |publisher=[[NPR]] |title=Sandwich Monday: "The (Sandwich That Helped Kill) Elvis" |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/waitwait/2010/09/27/130157016/sandwich-monday-the-sandwich-that-helped-kill-elvis |date=September 27, 2010}}


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[[Category:Bacon sandwiches]]
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[[Category:Banana dishes]]
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Latest revision as of 15:33, 29 January 2024

Peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich
Alternative namesElvis sandwich, the Elvis
TypeSandwich
Place of originUnited States
Created byUnknown, but associated with Elvis Presley
Main ingredientsSliced bread, peanut butter, banana, bacon

The peanut butter and banana sandwich (PB&B), or peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich (PB,B&B), sometimes referred to as an Elvis sandwich, the Velvet Elvis, or simply the Elvis, is a sandwich with toasted bread, peanut butter, sliced or mashed banana, and occasionally bacon. Honey or jelly is seen in some variations of the sandwich. The sandwich is frequently cooked in a pan or on a griddle.

The sandwich was made famous as a favorite of the American singer Elvis Presley. The recipe for the sandwich has been published in numerous cookbooks and newspaper stories.[1] It has been sold commercially in restaurants.

Elvis Presley[edit]

The peanut butter and banana sandwich has been referred to as a favorite of Elvis Presley,[2] who was renowned for his food cravings such as the Fool's Gold Loaf, a loaf of French white bread filled with a pound each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly.[3] Books on Presley's favorite foods and culinary tastes, as well as other published reports on his taste for peanut butter and banana sandwiches with or without bacon, have made the sandwich widely associated with Presley. It is often referred to using his name.[4][5][6]

Presley's fondness for peanut butter and banana sandwiches is well established; however, bacon is not mentioned in all accounts.[7] 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". Another passage describes him talking "feverishly until dawn" while "wolfing" down the sandwiches (described in this instance as being made with mashed banana).[8]

A news report suggests that, based on renditions of sandwiches named after him, Presley ate his with caramelized bananas and crispy bacon on grilled Hawaiian bread, and grilled by his mother or his cook in bacon fat.[citation needed] The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy describes it as consisting of half a banana and a piece of bacon per sandwich, browning the sandwiches in a frying pan with butter, cutting the sandwiches into wedges, and piling them high.[9]

Variants[edit]

The PB&B sandwich has had numerous variations, many of which were billed as "Elvis Presley's" or owing to "Elvis" himself. Hamburgers done Elvis style have become increasingly popular in the United States as well.[10] Nigella Lawson of the cooking show Nigella Bites featured "Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich" in a 2007 episode that was made of white bread, butter, a banana, and peanut butter.[11]

Another cooking show, Sara's Secrets, featured the "Elvis" with the Peanut Butter & Co.'s recipe, which includes 8 slices of bread, butter, a banana, peanut butter, 12 slices of bacon and honey.[12]

A variant on the sandwich is the peanut butter banana club sandwich, which combines the sandwich with a club sandwich by adding lettuce, brown sugar and lemon juice.[1] Another version of the sandwich, which added honey and substituted bacon bits for bacon strips, was sold under the name The Memphis at the now-shuttered "all peanut butter sandwich" restaurant P.B. Loco.[13]

The sandwich has also been featured in a cookbook for canines in The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book. The book suggests alternative fillings including sweet potato, carrots, pumpkin, and apples.[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Peanut Butter Sandwich Takes on a New Zest". St. Petersburg Independent. September 7, 1983. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  2. ^ Sietsema, Robert (August 14, 2007). "Hunka hunka burnin' bacon". Salon.
  3. ^ Smith, Liz (November 10, 2002). "Ain't Nothin' but a Chow Hound". New York Times. Retrieved May 30, 2009.
  4. ^ Dunn, Brad; Daniel Hood (2004). New York: The Unknown City. Arsenal Pulp Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-55152-161-9.
  5. ^ "The Elvis". Food Network. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  6. ^ Zalben, Lee; Jerry FRW Seinfeld; Theresa Raffetto (2005). The Peanut Butter & Co. cookbook: recipes from the world's nuttiest sandwich shop. Quirk Books. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-59474-056-5.
  7. ^ Examples of the sandwich sans bacon are easily found; gossip columnist Liz Smith provides one: Smith, Liz (2005). Dishing: great dish—and dishes—from America's most beloved gossip columnist. Simon and Schuster. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-7432-5156-3.
  8. ^ Dundy, Elaine (2004). Elvis and Gladys. Oxford: UP of Mississippi. pp. 227, 256. ISBN 978-1-57806-634-6.
  9. ^ Steiman, Adina (2007). The Good, the Bad, and the Yummy: Food that Suits Your Mood. Running Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-7624-2743-7.
  10. ^ "Elvis Burger - Tasty Peanut Butter & Banana Burger [Recipe]". Burger Artist. October 29, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
  11. ^ Lawson, Nigella. "Elvis Presley's Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich". Food Network. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  12. ^ "The Elvis Recipe". Food Network. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  13. ^ Seftel, Howard (January 12, 2006). "P.B. Loco". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  14. ^ Fortunato, Lisa (2007). The Everything Cooking for Dogs Book. Everything series. Adams Media. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-59869-431-4. OCLC 125403481.[permanent dead link]

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