How does our very own Spudley Street compare to Staffordshire's famous Spud Man?

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Express & Star reporter - and part-time potato correspondent - Lauren Hill went to try Wolverhampton city centre's Spudley Street tatties, to see how they compare to the TikTok-famous Spud Man's.

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00:00 Hi everyone, it's Lauren here, your local Potato Correspondent. It's another day,

00:04 meaning another Potato. We're in Wolverhampton City Centre and I'm gonna

00:09 go and find our local vendor and see how it compares to Spudman of Tamworth

00:15 because we can't just send everyone flocking to him, we've got to pick up our own

00:19 don't we? So we're in Wolverhampton and I'll let you know how it goes.

00:24 So the Potato van is on Dudley Street and I can see from here the sign says

00:28 'Welcome to Spudley Street' so it looks like I'm in the right place.

00:31 Jacket potatoes, hot and cold fillings. Right, very excited for this.

00:38 I think that's the Potato van that I can see yonder so let's go and get another beans and cheese

00:42 because we've got to have a fair competition don't we? So we're gonna go

00:46 and meet the person behind the Spud. Let's go and have a look and see how it

00:49 compares to Spudman's potatoes. Two lovely ladies behind the counter.

00:57 Hello you! What are your names ladies?

01:03 My name is Leena and that's Chelsea. Everything we do apart from the beans is homemade.

01:05 Everything is homemade fresh food here, I can't wait to try it. Thank you so much.

01:11 How much is that one? £4.40. Secured the bag! I've secured the baked potato with beans and cheese.

01:17 I'm really excited to try this one because the lady said that all the

01:20 ingredients are fresh. So fresh and homemade, sorry. So I'm really excited

01:26 about this one. I'll let you know how it tastes. Another pigeon friend coming over

01:32 to inspect the potato here. Sorry pigeon, I'm the only one who's doing the judging

01:37 round here. Maybe you can have a crumb. Here she is. Let's have a look.

01:45 So the only one thing that I've noticed so far is that Spudman put his

01:51 beans on top of the cheese so that's why it was also melted but the cheese is

01:56 doing a pretty good melting job here. So wait till you see this.

02:03 Let's give it a try. Look at all that cheese, so many toppings on here.

02:11 I know that Spudman's having all the hype these days but this Dudley Street,

02:30 Spudley Street potato, I think it just about tops it. I don't know what it is

02:37 though. The ingredients do taste fresher, the potatoes are hotter actually, really hot,

02:44 nice and fluffy. Now guys I actually didn't check how many potatoes they put

02:49 in here because obviously Spudman puts one and a half but if you just look at

02:53 the size of this potato, this is a huge, this is a huge potato. Look at that

03:00 absolute unit. It's a humongous potato. Potatoes are delicious but listen you

03:08 don't have to queue for two hours for one and if you live in Wolverhampton or

03:12 close by and you're desperate for a baked potato you should try Spudley

03:17 Street because the ladies are so friendly and you can tell that their

03:21 ingredients are fresh as well.

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