Elvis sandwich true recipe unveiled by The King’s ex Linda Thompson

Elvis Presley famously had some unusual consuming habits. 

Aside from banning fish from Graceland and his love of munching gobs and gobs of cheeseburgers, he would typically undergo phases of consuming the identical meal over and over.

His ex-wife Priscilla Presley remembered a time when the star would eat meatloaf for dinner day by day for six months.

Of course, nothing connects meals to Elvis extra prominently than the Elvis sandwich.

The peanut butter, banana (and generally even bacon) sandwich is available in many variations at this time, however his former girlfriend Linda Thompson has now revealed the true recipe.

Linda, who lived with Elvis at Graceland from 1972-6 would generally put together meals for The King as a substitute of his maids. Appearing at Elvis Week 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee this month, the 73-year-old shared simply how The King favored his well-known sandwich.

She advised followers: “I’d like to take credit for it, but it’s really the Elvis Presley way of making a peanut butter and banana sandwich. You mash the bananas – it has to be a ripe banana – and blend peanut butter in the mashed bananas.

“Take two pieces of white bread preferably, Wonder bread, and put the mixture in the bread and then you melt a stick of butter. It’s a lot of butter! And you saturate both sides of the bread and fry it like a grilled cheese sandwich, but it’s peanut butter and banana. Honestly, I don’t think I ever saw him eat a full one. But he just wanted to have a few bites.”

Linda then went on to share a narrative of how Elvis as soon as despatched her again all the way down to the kitchen to make a much bigger meal for him.

Linda shared: “He would ask me, ‘Honey, would you go downstairs and make me some bacon and eggs?’” She’d ask which maid Elvis would really like her to ask, however he’d reply: “No I want you to do it because it tastes better when you make it.”

So the previous Miss Tennessee would head all the way down to Graceland’s kitchen, prepare dinner after which convey again up three eggs and 4 slices of bacon for her well-known boyfriend.

However, after she positioned the tray on his mattress, the star replied: “What is this? Honey, I’m rich. I used to be really poor and we didn’t have a lot of food to eat and this looks like when I was poor and didn’t have enough food to eat. I want you to go back down there and put at least six eggs together and a half a pound of bacon. I won’t eat it all, but I just want to see it in front of me, I just wanna know I can afford that.”