Craig Harker ordered the whopping bacon butty on his way to work (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
A dad is convinced he holds the record for the UK’s biggest bacon butty, after asking for a whopping 51 rashes for his breakfast.
Food blogger Craig Harker left staff at his local Greggs baffled when he asked for the biggest breakfast bap imaginable.
The 35-year-old – who is a member of right wing party Reform UK and is standing to be a local councillor – ordered the 2,500 calorie snack on his way to work.
Footage shared on Craig’s TikTok account ‘Dad Loves Food’ shows the pub owner eagerly waiting to receive his mammoth £16.40 sandwich – that was served in a doughnut box.
Craig soon realised his eyes were much bigger than his belly, admitting the sandwich ‘absolutely destroyed me’ to the point he ‘didn’t eat one for a few days’.
Although unable to finish it, the dad-of-three shared the rest with his 28-year-old partner Rochelle Fairley and kids Isla, nine, Oscar, seven, and two-year-old Teddy.
Craig Harker, 35 and his partner, Rochelle Fairley, 28 (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
The whopping sandwich had 51 rashers of bacon (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
The peckish northerner fancied a meaty treat for breakfast (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
The dad of three was left defeated by the monster butty (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)
But despite it being against all the rules, and giving your dog bacon can be really harmful – Craig said his pooch helped with the leftovers too.
Craig said: ‘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’.
‘The box was meant to fit six doughnuts, and it ended up fitting one massive bacon sandwich.
‘It’s the biggest bacon sandwich I’ve ever seen in my life – it was absolutely huge.
Uk’s biggest bacon butty
Bacon sandwich- 329 calories
Extra bacon – 2,516 calories
Ketchup – 75 calories
Total= 2,920 calories
‘It absolutely destroyed me – I didn’t get halfway down so I failed miserably, but I took it home to my family and everyone made sandwiches out of it.
He added: ‘I love bacon sarnies, but after that I didn’t eat one for a few days.’
‘The Greggs bacon butty is definitely a national institution – everyone throughout the country knows what they serve and everyone lives within about 10 miles of one.
‘But I reckon if everyone did that Greggs would have a nationwide bacon shortage.’
Greggs has been approached for comment.
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The dad-of-three was struggled to finish the whopping 51 rasher sarnie, and ended up sharing it with his kids and dog.