A devoted Greggs fan has gotten a tattoo of the bakery chain's famous sausage roll on his arm after spending over £1,600 on the treats.
A Greggs superfan who has spent £1,600 on sausage roll s has gotten a tattoo of the pastry on his arm. Matthew McCarroll has spent the last seven years visiting the bakery giant after work on a Friday and eating four sausage roll s in one go before heading home for a nap. The council groundsman, who concedes he's 'not the best eater in the world', has been enjoying the pastries since he was a kid, describing the chain's sausage roll s as his favourite food.
In tribute, the 31-year-old got a six-inch inking of the sausage roll peeking out of branded packaging with a halo-like orange glow around it on his right arm. Matthew joked he now looks like an 'advertising board' for Greggs and hoped the chain might acknowledge his body art after eating 1,456 of the snacks during his after-work visits. He had hoped he might get something out of the £200 inking such a t-shirt from the brand. The sausage roll fan originally had the £200 tattoo done in July by Amber Naomi at Celestial Tattoo in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, and had it touched up on December 14. Matthew, from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, said: 'Amber had done McDonald's designs and I said 'if you design one of those as a Greggs I'll get it'. 'I've had Greggs sausage rolls since I was a wain. I'm not the best eater in the world but I knew I liked sausage rolls so it was something I would fall back on as I got older. 'My routine on a Friday after work is I go straight to Greggs and then go for a nap, it's brilliant. It started seven years ago. My usual order is four sausage rolls, I eat them in one go after my shift. Sausage rolls are just one of my favourite foods. I know I've got a tattoo on my arm but I've never thought about it this deeply, they're just nice and I like the taste of them. 'Amber did a design I liked, the orange around it looked like a halo, and I got i
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