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    8 months ago

    This meme does meat pies dirty (unless “mincemeat pie” is one of those horribly deceptive terms like “mince pie”)

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        8 months ago

        Then I take it back. I have never been as disappointed as the first time I was offered a “mince” pie

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          8 months ago

          Mincemeat it is made from dried fruit and booze.

          S’far as I can tell it’s the filing in mince pie.

          But like. Ew. No way there’s enough booze in there to make that sound attractive.

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            8 months ago

            I guess, if you don’t like raisins and currants? It’s just a fruit pie, I don’t really see what’s so horrible about that. It’d be more understandable if we were talking about a fly cemetery, a similar pastry with a much more interesting name.

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              8 months ago

              It’s a texture thing, for me. and I’m particular about the booze I put in my food. it sometimes gives weird flavors.

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          8 months ago

          Where I’m from “mince pie” is dried fruit and spices, while “mince” is equivalent to the US ground beef (or less commonly other meats), and a “meat pie” is made from beef mince.

          It made for frustrating Christmasses as a child because mini meat pies (“party pies”) are delicious and available at every other celebration.

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          8 months ago

          Thankfully that’s not the case here in NZ. Otherwise the rather popular mince-n-cheese pie would be weird.

          Today, ‘mincemeat’ as a term by itself, is unusual. It’s usually either just ‘mince’ (meat) or ‘fruit-mince’ (not meat).

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      8 months ago

      The more savory a pie gets, the more I like it. Pumpkin pie is okay. Mince meat is fine. Turkey is great!

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      8 months ago

      (1/2)×θ×r^2

      is the area of a circle sector, like a slice of pie.

      (1/2)×sin(θ)×side1×side2

      is the side-angle-side formula for the area of a triangle.

      We know that the triangle encompassed by the sector has two sides that are equal to the radius, so we replace side1×side2 with r^2. Since the area of the arc segment is equal to the area of a sector minus the triangle, we can subtract triangle area from sector area to get

      (1/2)×(θ-sin(θ))×r^2

      which is the area of the arc segment, as shown with pie in the picture.

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        8 months ago

        Is theta in radians? That’s the only way I see this working