A cafe in Bury has launched a giant full English breakfast challenge with a whopping 34 items and over 3,500 calories.
Loaded with masses of sausages, bacon rashes, fried eggs, hash browns, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms, the ginormous breakfast includes everything you’d expect to find on a proper fry-up as well as some extra surprises.
With four pieces of toast and two pieces of fried bread, four hash browns, four fried eggs, four bacon rashers, four sausages, and two pieces of spam, it’s no mean feat.
And that’s even before you add on the burger and chips.
The eye-poppingly large breakfast challenge has been created by Gusto Deli in Walshaw and must be finished within half an hour for customers to successfully complete it.
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If they do manage to clear their plate in that time, they get the whole lot for free – but so far no one has been able to manage it, including a friend of the owner’s who inspired the challenge to begin with.
Owners have said that the fry-up “doesn’t look like much on the pictures, but when it’s in front of you it’s massive.”
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Image: Gusto Deli Walshaw via Facebook
Image: Gusto Deli Walshaw via Facebook
Posting the challenge on Facebook, the cafe’s owners wrote: “Our very good friend has been asking for a food challenge.
“So yesterday we set him one.
“This had 4 sausage, 4 bacon, 4 eggs, 4 hash browns, 4 black pudding, 2 spam, 1 burger, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, chips, 4 toast and 2 fried bread.
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“Unlucky he couldn’t finish.
“Could you, if you fancy a food challenge and think you could finish it you get the meal for free, £25 if you fail.
“Must be finished within 30 minutes.”
Image: Gusto Deli Walshaw via Facebook
Image: Gusto Deli Walshaw via Facebook
Whilst customers have so far been unsuccessful in finishing it, there appear to be plenty of people in the comment section who think they could give the challenge a good go.
One person wrote: “How long have I got to smash it? Looks like a lighter version of my fry up”
One of Manchester’s much-loved restaurant bars is doing a free sausage roll giveaway next week… but there’s a catch.
The catch being you have to have a certain name in particular.
It was only last week that popular high street chain Pret A Manger announced it would be slinging out free sandwiches to any Mancs with ‘Nic’ in their name over the late May bank holiday weekend, and now Tariff & Dale is getting it on the giveaway action, and it’s all to celebrate the iconic event that is National Sausage Roll Day.
In case you didn’t know – which is very likely, let’s be real – next Thursday (5 June) is the day dedicated to all things sausage roll.
So what better way to mark the occasion than with free portions of Tariff & Dale‘s legendary meaty treat?
The popular Northern Quarter restaurant bar is known for its creative comfort food, craft beers and cocktails, and laid-back industrial vibe, with one of the cult-classic dishes on its menu having always been the honey pork sausage roll – which just so happens to be a whopping 15-inches long, by the way.
Resembling something more of a pork wellington than a sausage roll, if you will, the dish is crispy, golden, and glazed with honey on top.
But to celebrate National Sausage Roll day, instead of parting with £9.50 for a portion or £48 for the full 15-inch thing, people with one specific name can actually get a slice for completely free of charge.
Tariff & Dale is giving away FREE sausage rolls to people with this name next week / Credit: Supplied
And that name is ‘Greg’, because if we’re honest, when it comes to sausage rolls, we all tend to think of Greggs.
So whether your surname is Gregory or Gregson, or you’re simply just called Greg, then all you need to do to claim your complimentary slice of sausage roll heaven is head on down to Tariff & Dale next Thursday 5 June from 12pm up until 9pm.
A brand-new pub is set to open in Manchester city centre net month, with treats in store like complimentary bowls of crisps, an outdoor terrace, and a games parlour.
The Stables Tavern is taking shape in the St John’s district, poetically on the same site that was once home to Coronation Street’s iconic Rovers Return pub.
They’re promising this will be a ‘historic tavern reimagined for today’s lover of a proper pint’.
The pub will come from Shiko Group, which is also behind Courts Club, where you can play tennis or basketball followed by court-side pints, and Side Street, a bar-restaurant-events space with a mid-Century interior.
Neighbouring the Bonded Warehouse, The Stables Tavern will join this rapidly blossoming new creative district, just across the yard from Caravan, The Trading Route and Aviva Studios.
Inside, punters will find multiple beer taps with local beers, served with complimentary bowls of crisps as well as a menu of pub snacks like handmade sausage rolls and local pies.
The pub will be split into three sections – an outside terrace, a main bar, and a parlour area at the back of the pub for live entertainment, old school games, and rounds of whiskey.
This might be a new district but it’s a historic area for the city – the same building was a busy watering hole back in the early 19th century for workers, merchants and visitors who made use of the nearby canals and cobbled streets.
It was then the home of the Rovers Return, back when this area was the home of Granada Studios.
Hayley Sammé, Marketing Director, said: “We’re so excited to bring The Stables Tavern back to St John’s. The area’s extensive historical backdrop and burgeoning hospitality scene provides the perfect landscape for a traditional British pub.
“It’s the perfect addition to the existing scene, and we hope it’s going to become a popular spot in our new creative district.”
The Stables Tavern will open at St John’s on Friday 6 June.
Georgina Pellant -
6th July 2023 
