'I'll wait ten hours if I have to': Cork man flying back from Denmark for last Jackie Lennox supper before closure
The lunchtime queue outside the Jackie Lennox chip shop on the Bandon Road yesterday. Picture Dan Linehan
Hundreds of people have lined the streets near Jackie Lennox to snap up their last bag of chips from the famous Cork chipper before its closure at the weekend.
One man though is travelling the extra mile to make sure he gets his last supper there before then.
Cork man David grew up just around the corner from the chipper and is now living in Bornholm, an island in Denmark.
He left his home at 5.30am this morning and will take to the seas and the sky to get home for one last bag of chips.
David told the Neil Prendeville Show on Red FM that he had to get up at 5am to get a ferry across the Baltic sea to Sweden, then drive over a 16km bridge, 4km of which is an undersea tunnel, before flying from Copenhagen Airport to Dublin, from where he is getting the Aircoach to Cork.
He aims to be in by 6pm.
When questioned on his decision to make the long journey, he said “sure it’s Jackie Lennox’s, you have to.”
Some people are reported to have waited 90 minutes in the queue for chips.
“I’ll wait ten hours if I have to, I’ll come with a tent or something,” David said adding that the weather warning for tomorrow also will not deter him from his mission.
“From tonight I’ll not eat anything until tomorrow,” he said, adding that his regular order is two battered sausages, a battered burger and chips.
Tomorrow he plans to have the Jackie Double Deluxe as well and battered mushrooms, saying, “anything that’s battered, you can’t get anything that’s battered over here so I miss the batter.”
David will join Neil tomorrow on the Bandon Road to have one last Lennox’s, and nearby bar Rosie Maddison’s are letting people eat their Lennox’s there and offering deals on pints, so they plan to go there afterwards.
He said that people from Bornholm, an island with a population of just under 40,000, are tuning into the Cork radio station to hear about his adventure, saying “when I explained the story to them they thought, sure go ahead.”
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