Jake Farrar has plans to eat around 600 Yorkshire puddings this Christmas (Picture: Jam Press/Jake Farrar)
Britain’s biggest Yorkshire Pudding addict is gearing up to feed himself 600 over Christmas
Jake Farrar, 25, from Middlesborough boasts to have eaten 146,000 of the battered bites in his life-time.
He chomps down around 20 per day –7,300 a year – and his hunger for the roast dinner trimming costs him £50 per month.
But the self-confessed lad has set himself a huge bag just for the yuletide season.
He will eat a month’s worth – about 600 – between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day.
However, he has one rule – they have to be Aunt Bessies.
He said: ‘Anyone who doesn’t eat Yorkshire Puddings on Christmas Day is just plain wrong,’
‘They always belong on a roast dinner and Christmas dinner.
‘It’s meant to be the best time of the year and how can that be so if there’s not a Yorkshire pudding in sight.
‘And for anyone who claims they are unhealthy, I’ve actually lost five stone in the past year so I beg to differ.
‘I try different Christmas puds every year.
Jake scoffs down around 20 Yorkshire Pudding’s a day (Picture: Jam Press / Jake Ferrar)
He has already got his Christmas shopping done too (Picture: Jam Press)
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‘I do try the different Christmas ones that the supermarkets come out with like Aldi sells a pig in blanket Yorkshire pudding with a massive pig in blanket coiled up inside a Yorkshire pudding.
‘We went to two shops to try and find some yesterday but Iceland was completely sold out, we had to go somewhere else.
‘Tesco’s own are very nice as well when you can’t get the likes of Aunt Bessie’s.’
Aunt Bessie’s is by far his favourite and his mother-in-law puts aside a bag for him every Christmas.
However, sometimes even that isn’t enough.
Timpson worker Jake said: ‘I have been known to trade my wife some stuffing in exchange for an extra Yorkshire or two.’
Jake also wants to one day experience having a giant Yorkshire pud on Christmas Day.
He added: ‘I already take up a lot of space on my Christmas dinner with my full pack of Aunt Bessie’s but I’d love to have it all in a giant pud one day.
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‘But as a little present last year I got my own gravy boat for my Yorkies!’
While the dish is traditionally served with roast meat, gravy, roast potatoes and veggies as part of a Christmas dinner, Jake says his Yorkshires are just as enjoyable with Nutella, jam and even ice cream.
He said: ‘I also like to make what I would call a festive toad in the hole, so instead of just putting sausage in and baking the toad in the hole I put pigs in blankets and stuffing wrapped in bacon and cooked it.
‘It is honestly delicious and my family like it too.’
As for other classic festive dishes, such as mince pies, Jake refuses to eat them unless they come with a Yorkshire pudding.
He said: ‘Now I don’t like mince pies anyway but I could see that having potential if you were to use the Yorkshire as a pastry case.’
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Jakes usually scoffs 20 Yorkshire Puds a day (around 7,000 a year).
