Mike the Usurper wrote:
I'm going to say, this is just plain wrong. The main item in his diet they list as providing 42,000 calories looks like a miscarried 0. It's a 30cm bacon, peanut butter and jam sandwich. That's a 10" sandwich (sizable but not enormous). A POUND of RAW bacon on that is about 2600 calories, with the calorie count going down as it gets cooked. A full cup of peanut butter is about 1500 (try opening your mouth after that!) and a full cup of strawberry jam will come in around half that, call it 750. Add the bread in and it's getting close to 1/10th the quote.
Even if you batter the sucker and deep fry it, I can't imagine how to get that close to the 42,000 quoted. To get to 100,000 a day? He's eating 100 sticks of butter a day, on top of the sandwiches, washing that down with a bottle of Wild Turkey, a case of Bud, shoving his mug directly under the spigot of a funnel coke machine (last summer's "fried coke" mess) with a gallon of ice cream and three pies and a couple dozen donuts for desert. I'm calling this Myth Busted.
As described in the UK Sunday Times, 24th December, 1995, page 3 article,
"Revealed: the Elvis Presley killer diet", a forthcoming British special on
Elvis Presley's eating habits, titled "Arena", details the Presley diet.
The Elvis Diet:
Breakfast (5 pm) - 5,000 calories
Six large eggs cooked in butter with extra salt, 1 lb of bacon, half a
pound of sausages, 12 buttermilk biscuits
Dinner (10 pm) - 84,000 calories
Two "Fool's Gold" sandwiches [a jar of peanut butter, a jar of
strawberry jam, one pound of crisp-fried bacon on a baguette x2]
Supper (4 am) - 5,000 calories
Five double-hamburgers and deep-fried peanut butter, mashed banana
sandwiches.
Misc. - other snacks as required between meals
Elvis total dietary intake in calories averaged a minimum of 94,000 *per
day*. The article highlights that an adult Asian elephant (many tons in
weight) has a normal diet of 50,000 calories per day. The article quotes
a spokesman for the British Nutrition Foundation as saying, "I do not know
how he did it... The Elvis diet would fuel a normal man for a month." The
article continues, "Eventually this condition [consuming 94,000 calories
worth of food per day] contributed to his death -- caused, as Graceland has
it, by a heart attack or, as the coroner describes it in Arena, 'a terminal
event on the commode'."
