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Food and Elvis

Food and Elvis I had opened a can of low fat rice-pudding and was watching a food program, a big cook off in Tupelo. Elvis father, Vernon, once built a small house here, it cost him $ 250, but he could not pay the bank and lost it; now the house is a shrine . The winner, a cook who looked like a body builder, said the pork had to be so tender that a toothless man could eat it, and the sauce had to be right, not too sweet or too sharp but with a hint of lemon. When Elvis got to be famous he bought his parents a big house and filled it with junks, he never been in a fine home, how was he to know how the rich lived. Cooks have come a long way, from the backroom to where a bitter, low paid man resided and cleaned his nails with a carving knife… and now TV stars. Elvis best food was not pork, but a whole loaf, sliced long ways, with a thick layer of peanut butter, bacon and jam washed with sweet coca cola.

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Date: 2/18/2013 8:15:00 AM
I just had my morning toast; tasted very good.
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 2/18/2013 12:06:00 PM
with peanut butter?
Date: 2/9/2013 11:56:00 AM
Love food. love Elvis, so I loved this poem.
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 2/9/2013 12:34:00 PM
thank you Andrea

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