A Greggs superfan who forked out £1,600 on sausage rolls has got himself 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 scoffing four sausage rolls 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 chomping on the pastries since he was a kid, describing the chain’s sausage rolls as his favourite food. In tribute, the 31-year-old went under the needle to get a six-inch inking of the sausage roll peeping out of branded packaging with a halo-like orange glow around it on his right arm.
Matthew quipped he now looks like an ‘advertising board’ for Greggs and hoped the chain might acknowledge his body art after scoffing 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 it.”
After going under the needle for three hours when it was originally done, Matthew had it touched up to make the vibrant colours pop. Matthew said: “It went fine, Amber’s good at her job. We were joking that I looked like an advertising board.
“The dream is if Greggs sees it, it would be great to get something that acknowledges I’ve got it, maybe a t-shirt.”