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Article: FOODSTYLES OF ELVIS PRESLEY AS DOWN-HOME AS HIS ROOTS.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1987
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Byline: Patricia Edmonds Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Yes, there is room service at the Heartbreak Hotel.
The menu is T-bones fried so black you'd think nothin' but a hound dog would touch 'em. It's biscuits ladled with butter until the yellow stuff runs down onto your blue suede shoes. It's a salad of macaroni all shook up with mayonnaise and sweet pickles and hard boiled eggs.
Elvis Presley may have been rock 'n' roll royalty, the King. But his tastes in food were as down-home as his poor Tupelo, Miss., upbringing, and as elemental as the throb he put in the hearts of millions of fans.
In the industry that is Elvis memorabilia - ...