Mince Pie Appreciation

Sod the BBE dates on xmas puds, those things last for years. We usually keep a pud in the pantry and eat it the following year, they're usually better than eating a "fresh" one.

Seeing this thread pop up now is worse than seeing the Winter Gloves thread in August...

Greggs usually

Oo phew!

Greggs, Waitrose Essentials, the Morrisons ones above. Greggs by far the best.

I'm in. First of the season and bloody good too.

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Nutrition label even has seasonal colours.

Coop ones are good. Those and the Sainsbury’s ones were my faves last year.

You guys are jumping the gun. I'm annoyed to see them out there. Like only eating asparagus during the correct season, the joy of the mincer is diminished if eaten for more than two months of the year.

In our Co-op they are stacked next to the haloween stand. That bullshit is still 6 weeks away for gods sake. Put the pies back in protest at the disregard the capitalist supermarkets show to the cultural calendar!

Fuck the Judaeo-Christian culture telling me I can only eat mincers for two months of the year because that's when Jesus shared them with Barrabas or whatever. Fresh veg naturally has a season, mince pies don't.

I didn't mention the J word (although I did mention the big G). It's all about Alban Arthan for me anyway.

Part of it's ancient appeal is that it was preserved fruit, a delicacy, to be consumed when fresh fruit and even milk was scarce in the depths of winter. If you're choosing an MP when the apples are still on the trees, I say you're doing it all wrong!

Get fucking baking. I’m back in Gloucestershire next week!

Good spot!

Pleased to see this thread active again.

Damn straight. Without mincer straight-edgedom (not one bite before Advent night!), I'd be an even fatter bastard than I already am. Let seasonality substitute for self-control, I say...

Ok. Let's settle this outside...

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HB6QVTB

Responses are coming in thick and rich.......

I'll publish a pie chart (interim) at close of biz.

I know that's a joke but doughnut charts are better at conveying the correct proportion for each option

Is it pie chart season?

So far.....

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@NurseHolliday may be right, but still - No doughnuts in the mince PIE thread.

We are going to need to agree on what is "in season". 1st November at the earliest for me. Perhaps it should be done by cycles of the moon though, just you know, because it sounds cooler.

Surely the season starts with advent.

I'd agree the strict season starts Advent Sunday (or perhaps December 1st for the secular mincers), but 1st November/post-Halloween is a hard limit. OTOH, the January season lasts as long as the supermarkets are remaindering them...

Go for the Christ Countdown if you will, but some of us would like the choice. Fuming cos Asda didn't have any in yet - wasted trip earlier...

Also, I'll be out of the country all Nov and most of Dec - special dispensation for early mincing must be granted.

A humanist/rational scientific start date would be based upon the Winter Equinox. Suggesting 4 weeks before the 21st December.