Elvis Blog – Post #67 – Tuesdays at Vito’s

DATELINE: Amelia Island (near Jacksonville, Florida)
Remembering Wednesday 3 October 2012

ELVIS QUOTE:
“Some make me feel so bad I can’t hardly sleep at night. What makes me really sore is the way they try to smear the kids as delinquents who go for my stuff. What are they scared of? Why do they get so upset whenever teenagers get a chance to express how they feel?”

ELVIS TRIVIA:
What was Elvis’s thirst quencher on stage?

ELVIS HISTORY:
1955
Performing in Jacksonville, Florida, Elvis had traveled over one-hundred thousand miles and was recognized all over the south. Elvis teased the girls, saying, “I’ll see you backstage.” Fourteen thousand fans tried to get onstage and tear his clothes off. He thought it funny, but Gladys was terrified. Elvis told her she’d better not come to his shows in the future. “That stuff is going to keep on happening.” And this was just the beginning.

AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA:
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Last night some of our I’ll Remember You Elvis fan club members met at Vito’s to eat and eat and talk and talk. It’s always fun and the food is great. We plotted our trip to Inverness (the Follow That Dream tour starring Ted Torres) 26-28 April, and discussed going to Orlando in November to see the Million Dollar Quartet with Cody Slaughter, and caravanning to Daytona on 20 January to see the Ultimate Tribute Artist Tour (Bill Cherry, Victor Trevino, Jr., and Kevin Mills) and attending the Elvis Fest in Orlando 15-17 March. Closer in time is the 13 October fan club dinner at the Moose Lodge (5051 Collins Road) with fire dancers and tribute artists. I understand the show will be phenomenal. Being an Elvis fan in the 21st century is wonderful.

JOKE OF THE DAY:
Joe and Moe drove through Texas, but were pulled over by a state trooper. The cop tapped on the driver’s window. He smacked the driver with his night stick.
MOE: “Why’d you do that?”
TROOPER: “I’m psychic. You were going to say you weren’t speeding.” He walked around to the car’s passenger side and tapped on the window then smacked Joe with his night stick.
JOE: “What’d you do that for?”
TROOPER: “Just making your wish come true.”
JOE: “What the heck does that mean?”
TROOPER: “Two miles down the road, you are gonna say, “I wish that lousy so and so would’ve tried that crap with me!”

RECIPE OF THE DAY:
Applets:
You’ll need 1-1/4 C raspberry flavored applesauce & 2 envelopes of unflavored gelatin:
Combine ½ cup of applesauce & 2 envelopes gelatin
Set aside to soften
In saucepan, bring 2 C sugar & the rest of applesauce to boil
Add the set-aside mixture & boil 15 min
Stir constantly
Remove from heat
Stir in 2 tsp vanilla & 1 C coarsely chopped English walnuts
Pour into buttered 8” sq. pan
Cover & chill overnight
Cut into ½ by 1-1/2” pieces
Roll each in confectioners’ sugar
Chill several hours
Store in refrigerator
7 dozen pieces of candy

TRIVIA ANSWER:
Mountain Valley water