Elvis Fried Peanut Butter Banana Bacon appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Fried Peanut Butter, Banana and Bacon Sandwich (The Elvis) · Memphis
Memphis Graceland legend: thick-sliced white bread spread heavily with creamy peanut butter, layered with sliced bananas and crispy bacon, then griddled in butter until golden.
The Fried Peanut Butter, Banana and Bacon Sandwich is the canonical Elvis Presley snack, by reliable accounts cooked nightly at Graceland through the 1960s and 1970s by the King's cooks, particularly Mary Jenkins Langston. The recipe is documented in the 1991 cookbook Memories Beyond Graceland Gates by Pauline Nicholson and Mary Jenkins, with Elvis reportedly requesting up to a dozen at a time at his peak. The Memphis Arcade Restaurant (operating since 1919, claimed to be Elvis's regular booth) put a version on its menu in the 1980s and runs it as a tribute sandwich. The modern Memphis version often skips the bacon for the simpler peanut-butter-and-banana original.
Where to eat in Memphis:
- Arcade Restaurant
- Alcenia's