Dunedin students Alex Mortimer and Zoe Marshall are selling possibly NZ's most unique breakfast combo: A bacon buttie/sausage, can of soft drink and cigarette for $5.

Two "broke" Dunedin students have set up a money-making food operation that sells combos including bacon butties and cigarettes.

On Dunedin's notorious Castle St, University of Otago marketing and communication students Alex Mortimer and Zoe Marshall cook sausages and bacon outside their student flat.

"There aren't many jobs down in Dunedin so we decided to sell food outside," Mortimer said.

HAMISH McNEILLY/FAIRFAX NZ The bacon butties/sausage combos include a can of drink and even a cigarette option.

"We are broke students and we need some money."



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The pair set up on "hungover day" – Friday and Sunday – and spread the word via Facebook.

HAMISH McNEILLY/FAIRFAX NZ The marketing and communication students are saving up for an overseas trip later in the year.

And in possibly a New Zealand first the pair offer a combo with a difference – a bacon buttie/sausage, can of softdrink and cigarette for $5.

Cigarette?

"People always leave them at our flat for some reason, we don't smoke so we put them in a jar," Mortimer said.

"We decided to sell them off . . . I don't think it's legal though."

Under the Smoke-Free Environment Act 1990 it is illegal to sell a tobacco product with a non-tobacco item.

Legalities aside, the pair can sell about 100 bacon butties, which they have dubbed "bacon buddies", on a good day.

The bacon buttie/drink combo were the most popular items.

Marshall said they would branch out and sell hash browns next in a bid to under-sell the nearby McDonald's, which was a popular lunch option for students.

"We will kill their business."

The pair were saving up for an overseas trip later in the year.

Mortimer said when her father was a student he made $1000 on his first day with a sausage sizzle outside the now closed student pub the Gardens Tavern, just down the road on Castle St.

"I'm trying to catch up to that."

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