Barrow, Booker Wholesale and Tuk’s Thai Foods featured in a recent episode of The Hairy Bikers – Agony Uncles podcast.

It came after a fan of the Bikers wrote to Barrow-born Dave Myers and his co-star Si King to ask for advice on her ‘utterly useless’ husband.

The husband, Jeremiah, is tasked to make sure that the home is never short of essentials such as nappies and toilet roll – but his wife Josie says the essentials are always running out despite him managing to remain fully stocked with beer and nuts.

Offering up advice, Dave said: “Why don’t you just do what we do? I just buy in bulk.

“I’ve got to admit I get it online because since this cancer thing everything I want is organic and free of this, that and the other.”

The TV chef then went on to talk about his experiences of bulk buying in Barrow, mentioning Tuk’s Thai Food at Barrow Market.

He said: “In Barrow, up there we didn’t have Costco, we had Bookers but you had to be affiliated to a business.

“My friend Tuk who had the Thai Foods Stall on the market, she got me a card.

“But what happens is, when you check in it comes up on the television screen. Now obviously people knew me in the town because they’d seen me on the telly but when I walked in there I used to come up as Tuk’s Thai Food.

“It’s like the people would look at me and I’d be going, well you know.

“You know the towels that you get in Chinese restaurants to wipe your hands in the polythene bags, I bought like 500 of those, you know, you microwave them.

“When people came round (for dinner), the first couple of times I thought I was dead clever and I got my hot towels out at the end of dinner. But at the end of the third time it’s like, what am I going to do with this? It’s just crap and disastrous for the planet and everything.

“It never ticked any boxes other than a bit of a novelty. Epic.

“The moral of this tale is Josie, never let Jeremiah go to Costco, Bookers, or any of their derivatives.”