• @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    Mincemeat is not the same, at least where I’m from… Mincemeat is dried fruit and spices, no meat

    • @[email protected]
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      38 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.

    • TaldenNZ
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      28 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).