I have fantasized about doing it since I first heard about it and wondered if it could actually be done, as well as if I would actually enjoy myself during the experience. Last night I got home and made two peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and then ate both of them to my tummies delight.

I first learned about this combo of foods on a sandwich at around the age of 13 from a special on TV about Elvis, the King. I remember as a child that I was disgusted at the idea of putting a perfectly good banana in a peanut butter sandwich, and then eating them together. YUCK!

Then as I grew older I decided to experiment with eating different things, king crab legs, sushi, XXX, and yet all that time I had the thought of eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich lingering in the back of my mind the entire time.

Last night was an off night of training, so I didn’t have my usual post training session food devouring session, and I didn’t feel like making anything that needed to be heated up in some fashion. As I walked in the cold from the subway to my place I pondered what to eat and decided that I would make some PB & J sandwiches, which I’m really not all that into, yet I still went through the process of getting everything out and ready to make.

As I opened the drawer to get out utensils to make one of my patented PB & J’s I spotted some ripened bananas out of the corner of my eye, then slowly but surely the proverbial light bulb went on above my head with an idea, and then my cat walked into the kitchen and looked at me as if I was crazy for imagining a lit light bulb shining above my head.

Having never had formal training in preparing such an exotic meal of PB & banana sandwiches I spread the PB first onto two slices of whole wheat bread, then proceeded to cut the banana into slices ranging from about three to eight millimeters thick, then placed them onto the laid out slices of bread with PB, then I covered both with fresh from the bag slices of whole wheat, and then cut both sandwiches into rectangles.

I sat down to eat and examined my sandwiches. To my surprise the combination of PB & Banana doesn’t look all that back together, kind of like when Jenny McCarthy & Pam Anderson had that double Playboy centerfold issue and it just kind of worked and made sense, so I went in for the taste test with the sandwiches.

BINGO!!! The King was right!!!

These sandwiches taste great, and were way better than I was expecting. For some years I thought that maybe the sandwiches were a concoction invented by a bloated, drugged up, boozed up man that had no more taste buds left inside his pallet to realize that he was eating awful tasting sandwiches. I must say that I was completely wrong, and I feel so blessed for having finally tasted such a good sandwich that if I ever get married I want my best man to be a peanut butter and banana sandwich.