Singaporean couple travel 13 hours to try TikTok viral Lancashire cuisine

Lancashire Post

A food-loving couple from Singapore have travelled more than 13 hours to the other side of the world just to get their hands on a Spud Bros jacket potato, a local Lancashire cuisine made famous on social media.

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00:00Hi guys, my name's Jack Marshall, I'm a digital food and drink reporter with the Lancashire Post and Blackpool Gazette newspapers

00:06and I'm just here to introduce a bit of a story, a really nice feel-good story, a global story really

00:11which is bringing home, really hitting home actually, the kind of influence which one of

00:17Lancashire's local food cuisine purveyors and social media superstars is having across the

00:24world. Like I say, this really demonstrates the power of social media and that is of course

00:28Spud Bros. Now people who have read our previous stories on Spud Bros will know about the kind of

00:34social media influence and the kind of reach they have across the world. They've got

00:39something like 3.3 million followers across numerous different platforms from Instagram,

00:44Facebook, TikTok, everything and that kind of influence really is reaching parts of the globe

00:48you never would have thought Preston would have any kind of like course of action being involved

00:53with and that has really culminated in a Singapore couple travelling 13 hours from Singapore to

00:59London and then coming up to the North West to visit Preston's flag market to get their hands

01:04on a baked potato. Now you never would have thought it was possible but this couple have been

01:09so enamoured by the spuds being served up by Jake and Harley at the hot potato tram in

01:16Preston that they just thought we're in the UK, we've got to go see them. They've come to

01:21see them and they got the potato for free as a kind of gesture of goodwill for the distance

01:26they've travelled which is absolutely incredible. Spud Bros put a bit of a video of their encounter

01:31with this intrepid couple out. I'm going to include it now, have a watch. Thanks for watching, cheers.

01:36What's on your second one?

01:41Cheese and garlic chicken. So where are you from again? Singapore. So you're our friends from

01:47Singapore. How long was the flight? 13 hours. 13 hours, wow. To London. Just for a potato.

01:58Just for a potato. You've come to the right place. Are you going back there or?

02:06From Manchester.

02:09Nice. I think we've been to Singapore before, yeah. Really? No it's Kuala Lumpur.

02:15Yeah but it's not Singapore. Singapore's like our own country isn't it? Yeah. So we've been to Malaysia, the Philippines.

02:25Yeah we had family in the Philippines.

02:29We were meant to go to Singapore.

02:39What, you get a fine for having chewing gum?

02:42Everybody's really strict over there.

02:43You get a fine for swearing? No.

02:52Right, so we have a world map for you. A world map, yeah. So you're gonna have to cross off Singapore.

03:09You can't see our country.

03:10There we go. Hold it up for camera.

03:18And these are free for you and us then.

03:24These are our friends from Singapore. You're very welcome. Safe journeys back anyway. See you later.

03:31Harley, they're still watching us.

03:45Shoot, skedaddle, scroll on, come on. Come on, scroll up, you know you want to.

03:52I need to get back to the potato cutting.

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