Everyone in this country loves a Greggs but I think most of us like the fact that their menu items are fairly cheap, filling and not overly massive – food blogger Craig Harker is a bit different to most of us though.
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35 year old Harker visited the Hardwick branch of the legendary bakery in Stockton-On-Tees last month and demanded a massive 51 rasher bacon butty. It’s believed to be the biggest bacon butty in the history of the UK and was so big that it had to be placed in a box that would normally hold six doughnuts.
The sandwich set Harker back £16.40 but he admitted that he couldn’t eat it all and had to share it with his wife and three kids. Here’s what he had to say about the experience:
I think it’s the UK’s biggest bacon bun – I know we were hitting some sort of record.
When she served it to me in the doughnut box, I thought ‘I’ve never seen a bacon butty that size before – that looks incredible’.
I was just driving past and fancied a Greggs bacon sarnie, so I went in and said ‘can I have the biggest you can make me?’
I was asking for more and more bacon and she just kept saying ‘yes’. When I reached 50 she said ‘I think we should stop here. I don’t think we’ve got a box big enough’.
It’s my local Greggs so they’re used to me ordering these big wacky meals.
As soon as I walk in they’re like ‘what do you want?’ They know I’m going to order something a bit different.
It absolutely destroyed me – I didn’t get half way down so I failed miserably, but I took it home to my family and everyone made sandwiches out of it.
Well Craig definitely sounds like a ‘character’ doesn’t he? Sure the Greggs staff absolutely love seeing him coming in and ordering his ‘out there’ meals. Sounds like a real hoot for them.
Anyway, I’m kinda into him ordering such a big bacon butty, but it’s kinda pathetic that after ordering it he barely made a dent in it. Anyone can order a load of food and then not eat it. What a loser. Get a party trick that you can actually do.
For more of the same, check out this person who says that we’ve been making bacon sandwiches wrong all our lives. What?
