To absolutely nobody's surprise whatsoever, Newcastle upon Tyne has been named Greggs' sausage roll capital of the United Kingdom. The Newcastle-founded bakery has 33 outlets altogether, from the Neville Street shop which greets punters outside of the Central Station to the hustle and bustle of Shields Road in Byker.
And the outlets are also estimated to produce some 17.9million sausage rolls each and every year. When compared to the population, that equates to 60 sausage rolls per person, enough to allow every single resident of Newcastle to enjoy at least one of the staple snacks each week.
Neighbouring Gateshead, meanwhile, has the next highest rate of sausage rolls per person at 58, followed by Merthyr Tydfil of Wales (55) and Glasgow (46).
The Mirror reports that there are a total of 2,199 Greggs shops spread across the UK, from Lands End to John O Groats, and over the sea to Northern Ireland. Glasgow across the Scottish border has the most Greggs outlets overall - with 54 respectively - tailed by Birmingham (49) and Leeds (43).
Overall, Greggs says that stores produce a daily average of 1,500 sausage rolls, which amounts to 545,000 per year.
As a nation, the Welsh eat more sausage rolls from Greggs per person than any other UK country (30) with the Scots on 26, English on 17 and Northern Irish on five respectively. However, when you look at all of the regions by most sausage rolls consumed, the North East once prevails with 36 per person, per annum.
That's far higher than the next best West Midlands, who have a figure of just 21. Londoners meanwhile have it the hardest when it comes to the staple snack, with only enough made to allow punters 12 sausage rolls each - or one a month. The only exception of the capital of course comes in the form of the City of London, where the results are skewed slightly by the low population and high number of workers in the financial district.
However, if the savoury snacks produced in the Square Mile were exclusively made for residents, there would be enough to feed everyone each day of the year, and still have 77 left over.
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