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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “INTERchange,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, in Franklin.
Culinary no-no #69
By Kevin Fischer
Sunday, Aug 17 2008, 09:22 PM
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
My wife, Jennifer told the waitress at Elvis Presley’s Memphis Restaurant she wanted the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. Jennifer paired it with a chardonnay. That combo is not our culinary no-no, but if you ask a Frenchman, he might have a different opinion.
The Beale Street restaurant closed and is now the site of the EP Delta Kitchen and Bar.
The EP Delta Kitchen and Bar does not have one of the King’s favorites, the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich on its menu, and no, that’s NOT our culinary no-no, but it certainly could be. I mean, c’mon.
This past week was ELVIS WEEK. Thousands of Elvis fans make the sacred sojourn to Memphis to commemorate the anniversary of the King of Rock and Roll’s death, August 16, 1977. So it’s only fitting this week’s culinary no-no focus on this sandwich Elvis made famous.
The fact is there’s nothing wrong with a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich from a purely appetizing standpoint. If we’re talking healthy, file under culinary nightmare. A recipe for the sandwich submitted to the Chicago Sun-Times has the following nutrition information:
Nutrition facts per serving: 486 calories, 31 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 33 mg cholesterol, 45 g carbohydrates, 13 g protein, 546 mg sodium, 4 g fiber
Imagine the flaming dessert Bananas Foster. You’ve got those bananas swimming in butter and brown sugar and cinnamon and vanilla ice cream and rum. If you toss in some Skippy’s, I certainly wouldn’t complain. Fried peanut butter and bananas………..yeh, I could see it at Kopp’s next August.
It’s when you start messing with or experimenting with other alterations to the peanut butter sandwich formula that the red flag goes up.
The Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop in the heart of Greenwich Village has some rather different variations of the popular peanut butter on white:
Menu
Flavored Peanut Butter Sandwiches
The Heat Is On™ Sandwich”
Spicy Peanut Butter and chilled grilled chicken, with a little bit of pineapple jam. Like a Thai satay - only better.
Cinnamon Raisin Swirl™ Sandwich
Cinnamon-Raisin Peanut Butter and vanilla cream cheese, stuffed with crisp apple slices. Cr-runch!
White Chocolate Wonderful™ Sandwich
White Chocolate Peanut Butter and orange marmalade. Like a peanutty creamsicle.
Dark Chocolate Dreams™ Sandwich
Chocolate Peanut Butter and cherry jam, stuffed with shredded coconut. It's peanut butter meets black forest cake.
John Dreyer of the Christian Science Monitor discovered people who admitted to eating peanut butter and mayo, peanut butter and fried eggs, peanut butter, bacon, and honey on toast, peanut butter and pickle sandwiches, peanut butter and bologna, fruit and yogurt peanut butter sandwiches, and peanut butter and kimchi (the Korean pickled vegetable dish).
And people say Elvis was strange?
Here's another odd one for you. They serve it at Mo's in, where else, Burbank, California. Click here, scroll down the menu to the Burger section and read the description for Foggybottom Burger.
Suddenly the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich sounds pretty tasty. And it's fairy easy to make.
Don't be cruel. Don't disrespect the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. And by all means, no peanut butter and mayo or bologna in the kids' lunches when they head back to school!
To read previous Culinary no-no’s, please click CULINARY NO-NO under my TAGS section.
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