Trying BLACKPOOL'S Famous £1 BURGER | Higgitt's Ultimate CHEAP EATS !

In today's video I am in Blackpool, and looking for the Ultimate Cheap Eats.
This lead's me to Higgitt's, and to trying the famous £1 Burger (and a £1 hotdog too!)
But can food this cheap actually taste good - let's find out !
Higgitt's Las Vegas Arcade & £1 Burger Bar
6-8 Dale Street, Blackpool, United Kingdom
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[@GreenoEats]

Evening folks - another installment from my recent trip to Blackpool - yep, the famous £1 burger 🙂

[@GreenoEats]

Do you have any similarly low cost places near you? I heard there is another £1 burger place in Great Yarmouth for example...

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Nothing by me Greeno!! Fair play to Chrissy Higgitt kept it at the same price 🍔

[@GreenoEats]

Dunno how he does it, amazing really !

[@jessicanippes1730]

​@@GreenoEatsI am sure this only works because he sells a lot burger and hotdogs, and he may be in his shop for a long time and the rent is cheap.

[@GreenoEats]

@@jessicanippes1730 yeah, for sure it must be volume sales.

[@matthew6994]

It's worth spending a couple of £ just to chat to Chris - top man!

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, worth it just to have a couple of mins chat with the fella!

[@timspencer3348]

Absolute bargain! As an aficionado of dodgy football scran, I'd be more than happy with a £1 burger!

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, we’re well versed in the footie burger. Compare this to the abomination I had in Torquay for 5 times the price, no contest!

[@darrenroberts-pp9nn]

Top man Chris is. He believes in value for money and puts a shift in. When in Blackpool avoid the sea front rip offs and visit him

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, can’t knock it! Glad to support a man who clearly believes in providing value rather than being a tourist trap!

[@olliethenightowlreader]

New subscriber and wow! even up here in the North-East there's not much going for a quid. Nice no nonsense filling grub 😊 ollie

[@GreenoEats]

Welcome to the channel ! "Nice no nonsense filling grub" - sums it up perfectly!

[@joekerr6685]

The Elmer elephants are for Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool, there’s 71 scattered around the town centre and as far down the promenade as the Solaris Centre facing the glitter ball. I’ve got some friends coming over on Friday to do an Elmer safari. There is an app which shows the location of them all, each one has a code on the plinth and some of them have gifts you can claim. It’s something to do in Blackpool, it’s free and it’s fun and hopefully will raise some funds for the children’s hospice 👍

[@GreenoEats]

I sawquite a few of them around, all very elaborately decorated, really brightened the place up. And raising money for a children's hospice, well I can't think of any more worthy causes than that, so props to everyone involved, great stuff!

[@Spitefire6]

First heard of this guy from Rate my Takeaway, what a guy! He seems so genuine, and as he says himself, where else you gonna get a decent burger for a quid!

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, fair play to him. It's not just the burger for a quid either - hot dog, sausage bap, spam bap and a couple of others I don't recall.

[@geebee6737]

Blackpool ....cheap and cheerful , tacky , a little dodgy in places but exactly what you want for an inexpensive weekend break . I was born on the Fylde Coast and love the place , any chance I get I go back despite the poverty and neglect. Southerners have exactly the same issues but hide them better 😁 Family of 5 fed for a fiver , family of 5 having fish and chips at Harry Ramsdens in Bournemouth £100+ , this does sort of put things into perspective. You sir are a great ambassador breaking down the North / South divide and proving the South isn't the center of the universe , I applaud you 🤣

[@GreenoEats]

A great summation of Blackpool in your comment there! And it's true, you head to pretty much any seaside town, north or south and you will find many of the same issues around. I've always had a fondness for the North, at 18 I moved from Dorset to Manchester, and loved the experience. Friendlier folk, cheaper beer, what's not to like!

[@gurney2931]

A great little video that. Thank you.

[@GreenoEats]

Glad you enjoyed it !

[@jonfranklin4583]

You eating the whole burger says it all! Love seeing places like this and the folks who keep them going in these tough times, thanks and keep up the great work!

[@GreenoEats]

Thanks for your kind words. I must say that I had low expectations prior to trying the burger, but was pleasantly surprised 🙂

[@GaryEats]

How are you enjoying your trip Greeno?

[@GreenoEats]

I’m back now, but it was certainly interesting! Think I am gonna have to go back at some point as I have a lot of recommendations of other places to try now 🙂

[@rogerjakko]

Excellent Greeno ...... good honest grub at an incredible price - you just can't lose. What a top guy this man is - salt of the earth.

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, cheap, filling and tasty, fills the brief!!

[@QuiteSimplyMyChoice]

If you are taking the family out and need a snack meals priced like this are brilliant 👍 [Gary sent me] Liked, commented & subscribed.

[@GreenoEats]

Thanks for coming to check out the channel 🙂 Great, simple snack and a real bargain!!

[@richardwaddington2038]

Only just heard of this . Im in Blackburn and me and the kids are gonna go and have a look !

[@GreenoEats]

I hope they enjoy it!

[@PlasticGirl65]

As someone who lives in Blackpool I can totally recommend it, top bloke Chris. Watch the seagulls don't nab your burger though.

[@nigel8499]

You're a man of your word. 👌

[@GreenoEats]

As Arthur Daley would have said "My word is my bond" ! (great reference for the younger viewer there ha ha!)

[@kkrispy2009P]

Great vlog nice to see chris higgitt

[@GreenoEats]

Thanks!

[@rchippy2319]

Looks good to me for price...if you are in Andover Hampshire on a Saturday market food truck does burgers for £2 plus lots of other deals.

[@GreenoEats]

£2 isn’t bad for this end of the country that’s for sure!

[@truckerfromreno]

Chris does a grand job. I'll be trying his food when I visit Blackpol next week.

[@GreenoEats]

A few different options beyond the burger, what do you think you will go for?

[@truckerfromreno]

@@GreenoEats I'm in Blackpool for 4 days so I'll probably try the hamburger, hotdog and spam fritter.

[@GreenoEats]

@@truckerfromreno 4 days? That’s plenty of time to get through the whole menu 🙂

[@jessicanippes1730]

2 pounds, its really a fair deal! Looked not too bad and something in your tummy for 2 pounds and a walk on the beach, sun is out, could not be better ❤

[@GreenoEats]

Absolutely, just a cheap stomach filler, but tasted pretty good. You can pay a lot more money on the seaside, and not enjoy it half as much !

[@markmay4954]

My mate went up there last year just to try the gimick and said that if he hasn't got a camera in his face he is as miserable as hell lol. All an act I suppose but it works.

[@GreenoEats]

Well I guess everyone has good and bad days right, from what I understand he puts a shift in so maybe he was just knackered. Or maybe he is just grumpy ha ha! Either way, can’t knock the value he’s providing

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Looking forward to this! Going to finish off work first though!! ….Smithy 🍔

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah, don't get yourself in trouble Smithy !!

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

@@GreenoEats I think what i really mean is I’m going to finish work so I can sit down with a cold one and watch it! 😂😂

[@GreenoEats]

Now you're talking !

[@KH0RIUM]

£1 each, wow, that burger looked banging as well. If I'm ever down there, I'm heading straight there.

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, a quid for something relatively tasty and filling. Compare it to the McD hamburger which is a fraction of the size and about £1.50… it’s a no brainer!

[@Chalks38]

We went for a weekend recently for all 71 Elmer in 2 days was shattered 😂 and obvs paid Chris a visit for a burger on the way around

[@GreenoEats]

Wow, they're spread out quite a distance, so that's really something to travel between them all. I am sure the burger gave you a nice little energy boost on the way round :-)

[@kevinkeane254]

Greeno mate, you HAD to do this one!! 😂😂

[@GreenoEats]

Is there a KZbinr out there who doesn't get a £1 burger in Blackpool !!

[@kevinkeane254]

@@GreenoEats it's how they all start buddy!!! 😆😆

[@andywright3450]

Mate I had two different burgers there and got bad gut aches and shits from that place not for me

[@GreenoEats]

That’s a shame, I was perfectly fine after personally, but I understand your position if you had a worse experience!

[@markramsay6399]

New sub here - you were recommended by Mr G E ! / Really liking your videos, playing catch up now. Mark.

[@GreenoEats]

Hi Mark, welcome to the channel! Gary is a real gent isn’t he, looking forward to doing something with him soon. Thanks for your kind words about the content, I know I fall into the “enthusiastic amateur” category, so it’s always nice to hear positive feedback 🙂

[@Strawberrygardener]

Greetings from Leicestershire, this is something I must try, a £1 burger, a £1 hotdog and a £1 spam barm. It is what it is and for £3 I can't complain.

[@GreenoEats]

Leicestershire is a place I must visit more. I went to Leicester a little over a year ago and was pleasantly surprised at how nice and in parts quaint the city centre was. I was tempted by a spam barm myself it has to be said!

[@Strawberrygardener]

@@GreenoEats Fantastic, If you do visit us again please be sure to head to Melton Mowbray and try a pork pie from the Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe Dickinson & Morris.👍

[@GreenoEats]

@@Strawberrygardener now that sounds like something right up my street!

[@JessieDrury1]

So good value, I’m a young single mum, and too, my daughter to our village fete on Bank Holiday Monday, Cost £6 for 2 catering burgers. Which was expensive, especially as Chris gets his burgers burgers from a cash n carry and does them for £1

[@GreenoEats]

Just goes to show that people can make lower costs work if they are smart about it. I know it's not the finest quality, but I have paid more for burgers that taste worse, that's for sure!

[@ianmiller865]

gary sent me. i so need to try his burgers, lovely fella, plus his has a great amusement arcade

[@GreenoEats]

Welcome to the channel - glad you followed Gary's recommendation :-) As for the £1 burger - what a bargain. Sure, it's not michelin star, but can't knock it !

[@Sanderly1820]

These burgers are from bookers cash carry and they are the cheapest they do, I'm onlycaaying this has the greasy spoon I use to manage used the same ones, their cheap box of 8's sausages are the best too, it's what your local chippy uses

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah, of coure it's properly cheap and cheerful product, but still, to knock them out at a quid a pop is still incredible nowadays. Just 1 of those sausages you mention are a couple of quid from my local chippy, and as you say they are the cheapest of the cheap catering sausages.

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

I’m off to see him Greeno, for him to maintain the £1 price for a burger 🍔 what a legend! Top video again Greeno!! ….Smithy

[@GreenoEats]

It's amazing isn't it. prices on everything going up, so his margins must be squeezed (or even non-existant) but he's sticking to it regardless. Top man !

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

@@GreenoEats 💯 Greeno!!

[@L1RW]

2:45 you can see the Wikinger hot dogs in a glass jar on the shelf.... must be what he uses. I personally prefer the Aldi/Lidl Bockwurst in a glass jar, as those ones are pork. The Wikinger ones are chicken and turkey. I am still amazed that you can get a burger/hot dog with sauce and onions for £1!!!

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah I spotted that when editing the video. Still tasted pretty good mind, and for a quid, well who's complaining 🙂 Thanks for watching!

[@donfranktv]

Fair play to Chris selling these for £1 with the rise of everything these days. Enjoyed the vid mate

[@GreenoEats]

Thank you 🙂

[@robhines4537]

Recommended by Gary Eats, yes Greeno I'm hooked in...

[@GreenoEats]

Thanks for seeking me out after Gary's recommendation - I hope you will enjoy my content!

[@user-kw9ki4qp8o]

Blackpool my home town and I miss the pound burger

[@GreenoEats]

It's amazing value in the current climate isn't it - props to Chris Higgitt for sticking to the £1 cost !

[@Eatmecheap]

My only beef with this video is at the beginning where you say it would cost more than £2 to catch the bus. That's wrong, bus charges have been capped at ££2 for a couple of years now. So you can get the open top bus from Bournemouth all the way over on chain ferry to swanage for £2 - check it out 👍

[@GreenoEats]

It was just a throwaway line to demonstrate how things are more expensive down south, not to be taken literally 🙂

[@rosswillis5694]

Like fairground type

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah, it is a bit like fairground food, except at the fairground you'd have to pay a lot more money for it !

[@user-ph6ck9tz1m]

Stop waving the Burger around kamasie Gull around 😊

[@GreenoEats]

Ha ha, the gulls won’t outsmart me 🙂

[@andrewburton9643]

Havent seen the pound burger for a while, need to go 👍

[@GreenoEats]

It’s worth a visit if you’re in Blackpool that’s for sure!

[@andrewburton9643]

@@GreenoEats seen like 20 plus videos on KZbin, macmaster, rate my takeaway etc, and no one has a bad word to say about it. How he keeps his prices down I'll never know. Keep up the great videos 👍

[@GreenoEats]

@@andrewburton9643 yeah, I only knew about the place through other KZbin videos myself, that’s why I wanted to check it out 🙂

[@craiggough3272]

Micky Finns is central drive

[@GreenoEats]

Good to know, thanks !

[@jhoneyb]

I admire your optimism and positive attitude about the complete sh*thole that is Blackpool. The tourist board there should employ you to promote the town. I'm not joking.

[@GreenoEats]

Haha, pretty much all UK seaside towns have their good and bad sides - you should go to Weston-Super-Mare.... Most have plenty of deprivation and many have problems with addiction and homelessness. It's sad, but the fewer people that visit the worse these problems will become.

[@jhoneyb]

Yes I know, I live in a seaside town in the South West, but one that is doing not so bad now. But I know what you mean. Never been to Weston though, keep meaning to go whenever I pass by it on the M5.

[@geebee6737]

People that complain about Blackpool's drug addition issues need to visit Boscombe , they'd stop moaning then 🤣

[@GreenoEats]

@@geebee6737 ha ha, true enough!

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

i'm glad i don't live down there, i'd be a calorie bomb in a heartbeat with these burgers around😂

[@GreenoEats]

Ha ha, could be dangerous!

[@KENRHY]

there is or was a place like this in Greaty Yarmouth-fucking lovely 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah, I have searched it up, Grill and Grind… might have to add that to the list of places to visit!

[@DavidNolan-fi8gi]

I never go bpool without a burger 🍔 and hotdog, about £2-40with cheese

[@GreenoEats]

Bargain right 🙂

[@DavidNolan-fi8gi]

@@GreenoEats this shop should be in tourist guide of Blackpool 😊I've had people in the past ask me if I know where it is,last time was Manchester pub and a Welsh dude asked me"cos I can't go home without trying one,they're famous" yeah I laughed 👍

[@LeeJohn70]

Chris should be Knighted for the Service he is providing. On the Isle of Wight many places charge £3.75 just for chips. £4.50 for a burger or an Hotdog. Blackpool is amazing value, thanks to Chris The Daddy 👍👍😁 arise Sir Chris, any decent King would pay you a visit and try the burger for themselves and then Knight you.👍👍😁😎

[@GreenoEats]

Not sure the £1 is up King Charles’ street, but compared to other seaside towns it’s amazing value (certainly cheaper than Weymouth or Swanage closer to me)

[@nigel8499]

Knighted for Services to the NHS cardiovascular ward. Rise Sir Chris! 😂

[@GreenoEats]

@@nigel8499 ha ha

[@MrAcoustic09]

Ig he's using wikinger hot dogs they are pretty decent to be fair 👌

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, I think so, they’re tasty enough aren’t they!

[@MrAcoustic09]

@@GreenoEats definitely thanks for a great video

[@GreenoEats]

@@MrAcoustic09 Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@PlasticGirl65]

The egg barms are also very nice.

[@GreenoEats]

Great hangover cure is a fried egg sandwich :-)

[@rosswillis5694]

Old school burgers brilliant f a pound

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, for a quid can't go wrong!

[@davidsworld5837]

so we know the sausages are 6 for £1.09 so 18p. shop price. really its bulk sales and small profit from each instead of charging 3 pound or more and having less customers you just need two or even 3 and your full. instead of spending £10 or more on something

[@GreenoEats]

Yep, sell ‘em cheap and sell more of them!

[@orthodoxblue7252]

This fella looks like he hasn’t bathed since 1985

[@GreenoEats]

I am sure he has, the Environmental Health Officer would have plenty to say otherwise 😂

[@edwardharrington678]

The pound burger is to entice the punters in as he has lots of gaming machines where he earns his money.

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah, that maybe true, but it's no different to Tesco doing deals on Bailey's and Quality Street in the run up to Christmas is it? A cheap headline deal in the hope you're gonna spend a few quid more on something else 🙂

[@EdsCanineAcademy]

@@GreenoEatsyeah I’ll bet there’s many families spending all their money on those machines, to then buy garbage food for their kids 🥴. One addiction feeding another!!!

[@DuncanMcPheeHandymanSolutions]

Soilant Green mate lol

[@GreenoEats]

Soylent Green, isn’t that a really old movie?

[@museonfilm8919]

If a business can still make money on a £1 generous burger in 2024 - then it goes to show that most other food traders are ripping off the public, big-time. I've seen joke prices on portions of fish and chips for £15, and 'economy' burgers for £5. People, spend wisely.

[@GreenoEats]

I get that for most businesses there are many factors to take into account, cost of ingredients, staff, utilities, business rates, insurance etc. etc. And perhaps his costs are low, he seems to be a one man band, perhaps he owns the building or rent is cheap. But it does make you wonder about the margins some folk are making doesn't it!

[@ianmurphy9955]

Can't go wrong with that mate. Hope your stay up North didn't traumatise you that much lol, I'm joking by the way fellow Northerners

[@GreenoEats]

Ha ha, I may be a proud Dorset boy, but I am a big fan of the North - need to get back up there soon if I can !

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

@@GreenoEats you can come with me to Bradford and Fleetwood away next season Greeno! 😂⚽️

[@jessicanippes1730]

​@@GreenoEatsany plans to travel more north?

[@GreenoEats]

@@jessicanippes1730 I would like to, just got to find the right time to schedule it in, I'm heading further west at the end of this month, not north 🙂

[@GreenoEats]

I've heard worse plans than that Smithy !!

[@craiggough3272]

That's ok for £2

[@GreenoEats]

What can you get for £2 these days - not much !

[@mysteryman5826]

this has being filmed so very many times for so long bu so many people. Really old news.

[@GreenoEats]

That may be so, but still it is the most viewed video on my channel in the last month. Same for Just Deano I believe who published his video on it just this week. So people are clearly interested :-)

[@neildaniels2074]

Couldn't hear a thing in this video 😮

[@GreenoEats]

Weird, nobody else has mentioned that on this video.

[@fishypie]

fill ya belly for a quid, no brainer

[@GreenoEats]

Especially at the seaside, normally folk there try to take advantage of the captive audience and whack the prices up a bit!

[@user-zg8gn1mf6o]

£2 is extortionate ...imagine if you have 15 Kids and you live in France for instances you have the travel costs and a hotel stay for 17 people that ends up costing you around £700 pounds for one burger and you share it with 15 kids

[@GreenoEats]

Ha ha - I cannot imagine the French even considering eating the £1 burger - certainly not sophisticated enough for the French palate !

[@matthewetheridge4535]

Cow can he sell burgers for that price that is udderly brilliant, i guess your didn't have beef with him, and re the price i guess you milk-ed it?!

[@GreenoEats]

I’d steak my reputation on the fact it’s the cheapest out there. So cheap I am tempted to moove there!

[@matthewetheridge4535]

@@GreenoEats Boom boom it was annoying when my dinner was on the ceiling the steaks were to high! Hope you like my cow-medy and moove-ing there the grass is always greener?!

[@GreenoEats]

@@matthewetheridge4535 Is it the North, or just the topside of England??

[@matthewetheridge4535]

@@GreenoEats Sirloin i'm not sure?!

[@GreenoEats]

Burger me, I'm not gonna mince my words, these puns are getting worse ha ha!

[@miocene900]

Bargain! And probably no less quality meat wise than a chip shop burger. Can't go wrong

[@GreenoEats]

yep - nothing not to like about this really !

[@JohnJones-wo1bc]

£1, and cash only. Tax man...............

[@andymartin3039]

Every card transaction there is a cost to the business, this I'm sure would wipe out any profits he makes, so good on him.

[@GreenoEats]

The other part of the business is an arcade full of slot machines, I guess it doesn’t make sense to have a card machine and all the associated fees just for the food side?

[@GreenoEats]

This is true, many businesses even now still have a minimum card transaction because of those fees. Not sure I could eat 5 burgers just to meet that !

[@JohnJones-wo1bc]

@@GreenoEats The fact that you don't have a choice no matter how much you spend says it all.

[@JohnJones-wo1bc]

@@andymartin3039 It's a pound cos he pays no tax. No tax=his profit line.

[@AllanNeaves-qn3zr]

Morning, became aware of the Chris the £1 burger man through another vloger. Lee aka The Mac Master,since then he's had more customers than the Tower🏖️🎢🎡Value for the tourist trade, it may help him being attached to the amusement arcade 😉🤔but it's a service. And, I don't know about you. But sometimes you just need a down market cheap basic, pie,burger and chips you can't recreate the flavour or smell of " stewed onions". Ah happy daze😳🤗Cheers Allan&Family

[@GreenoEats]

Yeah I think this place is now a bit of a Mecca for the KZbin community! I agree, sometimes you just want something cheap and cheerful, but tasty and Chris certainly hits that brief! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@totalfc6456]

nice video

[@GreenoEats]

Thank you 🙂

[@stephenkelly3001]

it been done a million times getting very boring think of better things to vlog you sad thing

[@GreenoEats]

Have a look through my channel Stephen - you will see there is a wide range of stuff, reviews of things I have cooked at home, reviews from around Dorset, London, France etc. The fact that it is the most viewed in the first 24 hours of any video I have released in the last month though shows plenty of people are still interested. I hope you find some other stuff on the channel you enjoy. Cheers, Greeno