Santa is well looked after in UK! £5M well looked after!
GENEROUS Brits will treat Father Christmas and his reindeers to a bumper £5,081,739 festive feast this year.
As three in four folk brush aside the credit crunch in favour of sticking to good old family festive traditions, it appears Santa won't need to tighten his belt.
2,800,000 mince pies, 236,800 pork pies, and 672,000 slices of Christmas cake will be washed down with 1,044,000 pints of ale, 4,320,000 glasses of sherry, 1,466,400 cups of tea and 1,440,000 nips of whiskey. Meanwhile, Rudolf and his six reindeers will tuck into 7,920,000 carrots.
Nigel White, general manager at Pork Farms said: “It’s great to see the public offering good old British hospitality and a true taste of the nation to Santa this year; we’re busy making sure the shelves are fully stocked ahead of his arrival.
Pork pies are the perfect yuletide grub, and even better shared, so we hope he takes some back for Mrs Santa.”
Santa John, from the UK’s official Santa school in London, said: “Mince pies have gone down in my estimation since that Cromwell fellow banned them in the 17th century; I love a pork pie, oh, and my Rudolph loves the jelly!”