Mince Pie Appreciation

Tempted to fund my efforts via justgiving if folks would donate?

Think of the poor mince pies, discarded on the landfill site, slowly decaying and under attack from gulls.

Oh fuck, Northern monk, Imperial stout, mince pies, these are a few of my favourite things.

You need to save them Mincers from landfill.

Pretty ordinary. No Bourbon at all. High chance of glitter laced turds tomorrow. Sort of win.

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Whoever else is on the Cheese+Mincer train, I salute you.
Smoked Cheddar+ local bakeries offering, good lunch right there.

Bought a box of Iceland's finest earlier & was pleasantly surprised - at 31.5p per mincer they're top value, gonna require most of my resolve not to have another one before the day is over.

I've just scoffed a deep-filled mincr of my own creation and still have half a coffee left. Two a day is alright, right?

Two a day is alright

Aren't we all ramping up towards Yule?

Two a day is alright, right?

User Quincy, you are among friends here. There is no shame in admitting you are only managing a two-a-day average. We will support you to improve and better yourself.

My friendly local provincial artisanal baker served up this today - brandy butter pastry cream and salted butter crumble. Nice, but a mincer it ain't (especially at £3 a pop)

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Redemption roasters - £3.50 for a mincer, couldn’t do it I’m afraid.

I’m blaming @dbr

Iceland LUXURY All Butter Mincer. I wasn’t going to bother with the Iceland ones, casually writing them off as being, well, Iceland, but we actually have a surprise contender here. Pastry is ok, a little under baked maybe right in the middle. The filling is tangy, slightly gooey and absolutely stacked with spice. I’m like 10 minutes after eating it and my tongue is still tingling with spice and citrus. Well worth a try. As with the ASDA ones, I’m going to have to side-by-side one of these tomorrow with a couple of others to put it in the ratings.

Have done one of these alongside an ASDA one. Iceland on the left, ASDA on the right. Shot under harsh office LED lighting. So, side by side, the Iceland pie is slightly smaller and shallower than the ASDA one. The pastry is much thicker on the ASDA one. All the Iceland ones have a bit of a soggy spot right in the middle of the pastry on the bottom. I think this is because the filling is quite gooey. The ASDA one is mostly sweet, while the Iceland one is spicier and more citrus and has little salty bursts. I'm going to rate them equal because they both have their faults but are also both quite good but different.

1. Waitrose Brown Butter with COURVOISIER VS Cognac IN SHOUTY CAPS
   
2. M&S -FOOD- COLLECTION mince pies in the gold box
   
3. M&S C L A S S I C All Butter
   
4. Waitrose 6 All Butter
   
5. Sainos TTD all butter pastry
   =6. ASDA Extra Special (6th place if you want sweet)
   =6. Iceland LUXURY All Butter (6th place if you want tangy)
   
6. Tesco finest All Butter Pastry Mince Pies with Brandy & Port
   
7. Sainsbury's 6 straight-up no bullshit deep filled
   
8. M&S festive iced topped
   
9. Waitrose 9 mini all-butter (didn't like)
   
10. Lidl Deluxe 12 All Butter Mini Mince Pies (really not great)
    
    

I know I'm going to have to repeat this with a Tesco one to check.

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I know I'm going to have to repeat this with a Tesco one to check.

Your devotion to scientific principles is appreciated

Thanks for your service.

I took 4 boxes of (top end) pies from an assortment of supermarkets into work on Monday, as well as some brandy butter.
Currently, there is only one box left.
Which is fine, as tomorrow is my last day of attendance this week.

Personal consumption,
or,
were some, (grudgingly?), shared?

No. I don't begrudge them at all. These are for people who have had to do shitty things at my bequest throughout the year. The mince pies do in no way repay them for their efforts.
Sadly I'm rationed down to one mince pie per day. Otherwise I become a fatter fuck than I already am.

Sadly I'm rationed down to one a day.

This thread is here to sustain you.

Battered mince pies from my new local vegan chippy, need to try these and the sprout fritters.

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Went in such of the fabled Choclatine mincer today - no joy sold out! But fear not as I stumbled across some freshly baked ones at Co-op in a handy two pack. And they were pretty good - quite a biscuity pastry which I can’t say I minded

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My local Coop has been out of mincers for several days. I resorted to some lattice topped puff pastry ABOMINATIONS from Tesco to sustain me. I have suffered so you need not. Avoid. Not very good at all.

My go-to pies are back in stock, Christmas has been saved, and they are on offer for £2 for two packs.

Woah, amazed. Do they deliver? To Oxfordshire? Thought not :(

Also. I have not had a mince pie yet. Feel my pain.

I almost went for a couple of those co-op ones the other day, but then went full heretic and got a couple of mince pie / fat rascal hybrid things instead. Definitely not a mince pie but pretty delicious.

I've not had a GR Eggs mincer for many a moon, last one I had I thought it wasn't as good as the glory days (2009-2012....arbitrarily decided), has anyone had one recently? Any cop?

Ha had this the other day, got to the till expecting to pay about X, cashier asks for amount X + shareholders yacht fund unless I produce a special card from my wallet. Forgot that I had it on my phone, so just left pretty much everything at the till, felt like a cunt, but also they are the cunts.