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Newcastle has its own bread, the stottie, a flat circle of dough baked at the bottom of the oven for supreme softness.

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After a year's absence, the stottie has returned to 52 Greggs shops in the north-east, the company confirmed.

Readers of a nervous disposition should look away now, as I link to the Chronicle story that recounts how the 33-year-old edged into a branch of the Tyneside-based bakery chain Greggs only to find he was … unable to purchase a ham and pease pudding stottie. 

You suspect it would be enough to put even the proudest Geordie off their stottie.