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A New Zealand supermarket owner has spent two months fashioning toast to mark the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death.

Reuters reports that Maurice Bennett has constructed a portrait of Elvis measuring 62 square feet and crafted out of more than 4,000 small slices of toast.

Bennett - he’s done Mona Lisa, too - says Elvis has a special place in his heart. “I’m totally into Elvis. I just fell in love with the man.”

Using a commercial oven capable of cooking up to 90 full-sized slices of toast at a time, Bennett grilled the bread to six shades, ranging from burned for Elvis’s hair to lightly warmed for his skin.

Separate ways

“The weird thing about it - and no Elvis fan would ever forgive me for this - is I didn’t get to meet Elvis and it didn’t bother me that much, because I got to meet Felton Jarvis who was his record producer. And I loved every minute of it.”

- Presley historian and reissue producer Ernst Jorgensen, 51, who got to see Elvis in concert once at a 1976 show in Johnson City, Tenn.