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  • BakuOPEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. It’s a mince pie.

    Don’t the poms eat a fruit pie thing they call a “mince pie”? It’s like a Christmas thing I think

    A lot of places just call basic mince pies “plain pie” or similar which I don’t mind all too much

    • TheWitchofThornburyEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      They do indeed. So do Australians - check out colesworth. The original ‘mince pie’ would have had beef or pork mince in it. It was a protein/sugar/vitamin blast reserved for celebrating the 12 days of Christmas (which go from Christmas Eve to 6th January) before the peasants went back to eating pottage only until Easter. Its a small pie that can be made in quantity and handed out to all an sundry to celebrate the holy season. Which was a thin Christian layer over a much older tradition of celebrating the darkest coldest time of the year with fire and good food and good company.