The first episode of the Parched Pea Podcast is all about Preston’s Food. John heads to Lune
Street chippy to talk to Fred all about his life owning a chip shop and working through Covid.

Fred has a lot of memorabilia in his chippy from Preston’s history, Guilds, old streets and
towns and even a working grandfather clock.

Fred loves his rock music and takes us through his day to day activities. He is known in Preston for his affordable chippy prices. He told John all about starting up his chip shop after being a decorator for 23 years and the struggles of working for yourself as a teenager.

Listen below to the first episode of The Parched Pea podcast or via Podfollow for your podcast app of choice

He said: “I suppose it’s because I’ve always been self employed. In your younger early days
I was always fed up with being skint because nobody ever gives you anything. It’s not like
working, you’re responsible for absolutely every single penny.”

John also head over to Preston’s famous Spud brothers at Preston Flag Market. Currently at
2million followers on TikTok, the spud brothers are viral across social media for their jacket
potatoes which people travel from all over the world to try. They do live streams, giveaways
and many charity events selling jacket potatoes, baked potatoes, hot dogs, milkshakes,
sweets and of course, parched peas.

Read more: Working a lunchtime shift with Preston’s famous Spud Brothers

The family took over the tram in 2020 with their dad Tony dad dancing on TikTok gaining 60k followers. When oldest brother Jacob took over, he carried on with TikTok and their spuds went viral.

Jacob and Harley Nelson talked through the process of taking over the spud tram which has been
on the flag market since 1955 and becoming TikTok sensations.

Jacob said: “It’s really exploded over the last four or five months that we have been doing it. We
don’t know where we are going to take it but the opportunities that are coming over have
been insane.”

The Parched Pea Podcast is a collaboration between Blog Preston and the Lancashire Post, with Gilly exploring the people and places which make the city tick and will be available on Spotify, Apple and all other major podcast apps via Podfollow with new episodes being released each Wednesday.

The podcast has been supported by Preston Markets, where a number of the interviews were recorded, and Preston’s Business Improvement District.

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