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Elvis Presley is at home in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, entertaining Captain Jerry Kennedy of the Denver police force, and Ron Pietrafeso, head of Colorado's Strike Force Against Crime, in the jungle room. During the evening, Elvis decides to fly to Denver to buy a sandwich.Full article:
While entertaining two Denver police officers in his Memphis mansion, Graceland, Elvis Presley recounted how he had once eaten a sandwich at the Colorado Gold Mine Company restaurant in Denver. Known as the Fool’s Gold, this was no ordinary sandwich. Intended to feed eight people, it was a hollowed-out, buttered loaf of bread, crammed with peanut butter, jelly and one pound of fried bacon. Presley, however, had pigged out on the whole thing himself.
Presley then insisted they should fly to Denver, one thousand miles away, to try it. The King’s stretch Mercedes took them to Memphis airport, where they boarded his private jet – the Lisa Marie. Two hours later, they touched down in Denver, to be met in a private hangar by the restaurateur, his wife and a waiter bearing silver platters laden with 22 of the $49.95 sandwiches, which were washed down with a bucket of Perrier water and a case of champagne.
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Presley then insisted they should fly to Denver, one thousand miles away, to try it. The King’s stretch Mercedes took them to Memphis airport, where they boarded his private jet – the Lisa Marie. Two hours later, they touched down in Denver, to be met in a private hangar by the restaurateur, his wife and a waiter bearing silver platters laden with 22 of the $49.95 sandwiches, which were washed down with a bucket of Perrier water and a case of champagne.