Pie chart solves terrace question

Norwich munched their way through 200,000 more pies than Leeds

It is a question which has been chanted at football grounds across Britain but it now seems an answer has finally been discovered.

Who ate all the pies?... according to a supermarket chain, it was Norwich.

The Norfolk city has bought more pies than anywhere else in the UK so far this year, Tesco researchers suggest.

The city's 121,700 population are said to have munched their way through a belt-bulging 1.8m pies since January - the equivalent of 14.8 per person.

Tesco suggests the city managed to eat 200,000 pies more than its nearest rival, Leeds, where people managed just 2.2 pies each this year.

Soccer chant

The supermarket chain collated the figures after looking at sales of both own-label and branded pies at its stores nationwide.

Norwich - famed for its connection with celebrity TV cook Delia Smith - led the way through sales at four Tesco branches in the city.

Southampton finished third in the pie chart, where people have so far bought 1.4m pies this year, and was followed by Glasgow (1.35m), Cardiff (1.1m), Bristol (915,000), Birmingham (890.000), Sheffield (840,000), Manchester (790,000) and Hull (770,000).

London was looked at on a store-by-store basis.

Kate Rivett, from Tesco, said: "Football fans across Britain will be rejoicing at the news because now they have an answer to their age old soccer chant."