They *did* have minced beef in them, there’s likely no one left alive that ate them when they were primarily beef and suet as it was apparently around the end of the Victorian era…but they were originally meat rather than fruit.
Wonder if there was a period where you had both? 😋
I want a mince pie now!
Of course I did! Imagine my disillusionment when I first tasted it
Yes
A little part of me is still worried it’s got mince in it 😅
Here’s the proof:Â https://youtu.be/CRH5DODIgE0?si=zTGDDqB6SoknY4jE
I did, I used to think why would anyone eat that
Yes, that’s what I thought for years.
It’s why I always declined to have some.
I wish it was mince meat, if that was the case I would eat them.
Yes for years.Â
They used to !
Yep
And when you were a kid you asked an adult ‘but why do they call it meat’ and they say ‘because it’s mince meat’… which just added to the confusion
Yes, because instead of a steak pie my mum would make a mince pie for dinner semi regularly growing up. It had overcooked carrots in it, she’d put an onion in it while the mince cooked, but then removed this big sweaty onion before adding the mince to the pastry. No gravy, just weird grey oniony mince water. Growing up I was wondering why anyone would want a wee one at Christmas. Foul. She wonders why we don’t ever visit for dinner.
Mince pies do have beef mince in, mince pies however do not.
Yes, I did
Yes it’s like the world is set up to piss off autistic children who grow up to realise how much energy they’ve had to give to people being non-literal their entire lives
Nah I always just took the word mince/minced at face value, and assumed there was *something* in the that was chopped up really small
It confused me alot as a kid.
I love mince pies when they have mince in them, but when they have mince in them, I can’t stand mince pies
Are you trying to tell me they don’t?
I mean move pies mince beef it has the same name
So yes I did
Yes. Until a couple of years ago. I’ve just turned 40.
Tried a mince pie with actual mince in it once, to be honest you don’t even really taste the meat
I used to think they were ‘mints pies’ containing mint.
I did. I was gutted when I first tried one and their was no mince inside.
You can imagine how disappointed I was at aged 4 when I first tried one hoping for a savoury pie only for it to be filled with fruit 😒 lesson learned 😌
Yep. To this day I feel it’s blatant false advertising
Asked to bring in mincemeat for home economics one week, I took in minced beef. My lil beef pies were pretty decent iirc.
Only the best mince pies have mince in them, and gravy.
Any other kind of mince pie can go do one.
And don’t even get me started on ordering a mince pie in the pub and it coming as a fucking bowl of soup with a pastry lid on it.
Funny enough, the first time I tried the mince pie I was very confused (and slightly disappointed) at the lack of actual meat in it. It was already at the stage where I was well acquainted with scotch egg/sausage roll/pork pie style of cousine so mince-meat based pastry wasn’t something unimaginable…
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Omg yes
Still do, and it won’t be changing.
I choose to believe.
They *did* have minced beef in them, there’s likely no one left alive that ate them when they were primarily beef and suet as it was apparently around the end of the Victorian era…but they were originally meat rather than fruit.
Wonder if there was a period where you had both? 😋
I want a mince pie now!
Of course I did! Imagine my disillusionment when I first tasted it
Yes
A little part of me is still worried it’s got mince in it 😅
Here’s the proof:Â https://youtu.be/CRH5DODIgE0?si=zTGDDqB6SoknY4jE
I did, I used to think why would anyone eat that
Yes, that’s what I thought for years.
It’s why I always declined to have some.
I wish it was mince meat, if that was the case I would eat them.
Yes for years.Â
They used to !
Yep
And when you were a kid you asked an adult ‘but why do they call it meat’ and they say ‘because it’s mince meat’… which just added to the confusion
Yes, because instead of a steak pie my mum would make a mince pie for dinner semi regularly growing up. It had overcooked carrots in it, she’d put an onion in it while the mince cooked, but then removed this big sweaty onion before adding the mince to the pastry. No gravy, just weird grey oniony mince water. Growing up I was wondering why anyone would want a wee one at Christmas. Foul. She wonders why we don’t ever visit for dinner.
Mince pies do have beef mince in, mince pies however do not.
Yes, I did
Yes it’s like the world is set up to piss off autistic children who grow up to realise how much energy they’ve had to give to people being non-literal their entire lives
Nah I always just took the word mince/minced at face value, and assumed there was *something* in the that was chopped up really small
It confused me alot as a kid.
I love mince pies when they have mince in them, but when they have mince in them, I can’t stand mince pies
Are you trying to tell me they don’t?
I mean move pies mince beef it has the same name
So yes I did
Yes. Until a couple of years ago. I’ve just turned 40.
Tried a mince pie with actual mince in it once, to be honest you don’t even really taste the meat
I used to think they were ‘mints pies’ containing mint.
I did. I was gutted when I first tried one and their was no mince inside.
You can imagine how disappointed I was at aged 4 when I first tried one hoping for a savoury pie only for it to be filled with fruit 😒 lesson learned 😌
Yep. To this day I feel it’s blatant false advertising
Asked to bring in mincemeat for home economics one week, I took in minced beef. My lil beef pies were pretty decent iirc.
Only the best mince pies have mince in them, and gravy.
Any other kind of mince pie can go do one.
And don’t even get me started on ordering a mince pie in the pub and it coming as a fucking bowl of soup with a pastry lid on it.
Funny enough, the first time I tried the mince pie I was very confused (and slightly disappointed) at the lack of actual meat in it. It was already at the stage where I was well acquainted with scotch egg/sausage roll/pork pie style of cousine so mince-meat based pastry wasn’t something unimaginable…
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