SOCCER legend Pele has a taste for Mary Rose pots after a Brazilian store started stocking her products in Sao Paulo.

"We met a customer in Frankfurt who had a store in Sao Paulo," says Mary Rose's brother James.

"A couple of weeks after shipping them quite a large order all the positive feedback started filtering back."

But whereas the big excitement for most stores is getting a movie star as a customer, in Brazil it all seems to be about football.

"First we heard that their national team coach Mano Menezes and his wife were big fans, and just last week we got a picture showing Pele and his wife buying a teapot.

"The funny thing is he's holding the teapot just like he'd hold a football, and perhaps the design is a little reminiscent of that diamond design that you see on footballs too."

Mary Rose herself is delighted.

"Pele has been such a legendary name. For him to 'buy Forest' is amazing," she said.