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Default Your state's sandwich

On Jun 19, 9:37*am, George M. Middius > wrote:
> Michael OConnor wrote:
> > For Colorado, I was thinking the Fool's Gold Loaf, which is a loaf of
> > Italian bread that is sliced down the middle and has a jar of peanut
> > butter, a jar of jelly and a pound of fried bacon on it.

>
> What kind of jelly? Crunchy or smooth PB? Chewy or fluffy bread?
> Sesame seeds on top? Would turkey bacon be good too? How about
> lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise? Chipotle sauce?
>
> Details, man! Details!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_Gold_Loaf

Fool's Gold Loaf is a sandwich made by the Colorado Mine Company, a
restaurant in Denver, Colorado. The sandwich consists of a single
warmed, hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with one jar of creamy
peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, and a pound of bacon. The name
of the sandwich is derived from its price of $49.95.[citation needed]
In later years, it was priced closer to $100 for the sandwich and a
bottle of Dom Pérignon.[citation needed]

On the night of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley was at his home
Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, entertaining Capt. Jerry Kennedy of
the Denver, Colorado police force, and Ron Pietrafeso of Colorado's
Strike Force Against Crime. The three men began discussing the
sandwich, and Presley decided he wanted one right then. Presley had
been to the restaurant before, while in Denver.
Kennedy and Pietrafeso were friends of the owners and hung out there
often, so they were driven to the Memphis airport and boarded
Presley's private jet, the Lisa Marie, and flew the two hours to
Denver. When they arrived in Denver at 1:40 AM, the plane taxied to a
special hangar where the passengers were greeted by Buck Scott, the
owner of the Colorado Mine Company, and his wife Cindy who had brought
22 fresh Fool's Gold Loaves for the men. They spent three hours in the
hangar eating the sandwiches, washing them down with Perrier and
champagne. Presley invited the pilots of the plane, Milo High and
Elwood Davis, to join them. When they were done, they flew back to
Memphis without ever having left the Denver airport.[1]