The parmo has been in the news today.

If you missed it earlier, the dish was cited as a contributory calorific factor to our region's obesity struggles.

Somewhat amusingly, a gentleman named Tam Fry, chair of the National Obesity Forum, was quoted as saying: "You would have to be an Olympic athlete to eat it without effect; for the rest of humanity there is an unbelievable risk of obesity."

Now parmo stories are - ahem - nothing new to Teesside Live readers, but it's been interesting to follow the reaction from elsewhere in the country

Here's a selection of what readers on The Times website made of the story.

This woman was impressed

"Sounds fantastic. Let me grab my bag and hop on a train..."

So was this chap

"Sounds incredible. Need to try one ASAP."

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Not everyone was keen

"In one sentence it is described as a delicacy; in another as a snack. I suggest it is neither. It may appear tempting but it is gross, though I have never tried one and never will."

A local offered some context

"Best served after a gallon of strong continental lager (real ale post-Brexit) and an altercation with a fellow diner, outside a kebab shop on Linthorpe Road."

And what about posh parmos?

"Are you going to go into the posh London restaurants that serve Schnitzel Cordon Bleu (which is basically the same thing) and berate them? No? Thought not. Let's tell the proles what they can eat."

What Teesside Live readers said:

"They didn’t have to tell us parmos are bad for us, everyone knows this but you can’t beat one when you're proper clamming!!!"

"£5 a parmo, you could make a meal for less than that if you want. Could feed a small family for £5 with homemade food. People are just too lazy to cook. that's why they are overweight."

"You can eat what you want as long as you do enough exercise, physical work or other activity to burn off the calories. The trouble is there are more younger people getting into the obese equation because they do a lot more sofa surfing than we did and are generally less active then we were at their age."

"Typical rubbish article from Southerners as usual. They touch my Parmo and they'll be leaving the region minus one hand - that'll help with their obsessive weight loss."

"Dunno where we'd be without our Daily Parmo Update from the Gazette."

"Cheap shot. If you eat one every day then yes but if they’re an occasional treat then there’s no problem. Same applies for curries, burgers, pizzas."

We also got one or two tweets along these lines!