The competitive food eater tried to stomach 100 bacon rashers in one sitting
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While having a meat-filled pastry a couple of times a week may satisfy your cravings, do you think you could stomach ‘the UK’s biggest bacon sarnie’?
Well, this is what Craig Harker decided to have a crack at, undertaking the near 8,000-calorie challenge to prove that he may just be the biggest Greggs lover in the world.
The 37-year-old dad is part of a competitive eating league, and wanted to test himself with the 100-piece bacon butty, which is put in a massive white bap that’s big enough to fill out a pizza box.
When asking for the unusual order, the confused server thought he was joking at first.
But before long, he was served the massive sarnie, and had to fork out £60 for the meal. Not to worry though, as it came with entire bottles of ketchup and brown sauce.
Known on social media as Dad Loves Food, the food enthusiast revealed that the treat was about nine inches tall, jokingly calling it the ‘bacon Mount Everest’.
“Look at that, that’s absolutely insane. It’s like a whole pig in a box,” he told fans.
Footage showed Craig ordering his monster meal at a Greggs branch in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, showing the camera that he was unable to hold the entire thing.
Heading home, the British Eating League founder started to chomp down on the massive butty and tower of bacon, with some Coca-Cola to wash it down.
But just 38 rashers in, he called time on the challenge as he struggled as time went on.
“As for 100 slices, I think it’s impossible,” he claimed.
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“I don’t think anyone could do it, maybe [competitive eater] Max vs Food possibly, maybe someone part of the British Eating League, but definitely not me.
“I think I’ll stick to the smaller ones next time.”
He ended up giving the rest of his rashers to his friends and family, and compared the sarnie to ‘holding a newborn baby’.
“I brought it home as it was too big to stand there holding, I had the kids round me watching and waiting for the leftovers,” Craig admitted.
Explaining that there was no waste because of the hungry mouths around him, he also stated: “I never want to look at a piece of bacon again.”
The pub owner said that the huge bacon butty would also be a tough ask for even his most seasoned champion eaters, as he barely managed to eat over a third of the rashers.
Craig has previously been in the news for putting 51 rashers into a single sandwich, but this challenge was a step too far.
Claiming that he wanted to find a challenge that was ‘different’, he explained: “As part of the British Eating League sometimes it’s quite hard to find the challenges so I have to create them for the eaters.
“It’s the biggest bacon sarnie I’ve ever seen or tried and I think even the big eaters in the world would struggle to eat something like that.”
Calorie Count
In case you were wondering how many calories would be in a sarnie so big:
-100 SLICES OF BACON – 7,600 CALORIES
-ONE STOTTIE (BREAD ROLL) – 172 CALORIES
-KETCHUP – 20 CALORIES
TOTAL CALORIES = 7,792 CALORIES
