This was about the worst possible day for a peanut butter sandwich: extremely hot, muggy, and unbearably sunny. But I'm committed to this quest, and so I trudged down to Sullivan Street right off of Washington Square Park to Peanut Butter & Co., a cute little sandwich shop, to try sandwich #100, "The Elvis." Supposedly, Elvis (Presley, not Costello) flew from Memphis to Denver just to have his favorite version of it. So what the heck would compel someone to fly all that way?
I'll give you a hint: it's not the keyboard. The sandwich, which was surprisingly hard to photograph, is a peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwich on white toast. Oh yeah, and there's BACON. Lots of it, actually. It came served with potato chips and, get ready, three carrot sticks. One thing that's hard to tell from the photograph is that it was a huge sandwich; it took some time to finish just half of it.
After the first bite, I didn't really get it. It was just a decent but not outstanding peanut butter banana and honey sandwich; the bacon didn't really seem to factor in. But then the next bite had more bacon, and I was taken aback. The bacon was very salty and strong, and it made for a surprisingly delicious sandwich. It was certainly unusual.
Overall, this wasn't quite worth the steep 9 dollar price (with tax), but it was definitely a great experience and one every sandwich lover should probably try; it is definitely unique, I'll give it that, and quite tasty too. Still, it is hard to get around the fact that you could easily recreate this sandwich for yourself for much less than 9 bucks. 2.8 out of 5.
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