Showing posts with label mincemeat pies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mincemeat pies. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2009

Now for a quick question

If you are invited to an acquaintance's house for dinner, and the person casually remarks that Titus Andronicus is his favorite (or is it favourite) Shakespearean play, what do you do?

The Post Where I Discover What is in a Mincemeat Pie

The other day, I mentioned to my coworkers I had no idea what a mincemeat pie was.
This is a mincemeat pie
So it was decided I had to try one.

This is me eating a mincemeat pie.
It turns out that there is no actual meat in a mincemeat pie. Rather, it is a a fruit pie (with several fruits inside). Though one of my coworkers assures me that at sometime in the distant past, there actually was meat included. hence the name.
This is the inside of a mincemeat pie -- no meat is to be found

So happily, one mystery of living in London is solved.