On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:57:52PM +1100, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:46:32PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > 2) The term "meat" used to refer to food in general as opposed to > > specifically animal flesh, a usage which survives in the name > > "mincemeat" for the entirely vegetable-based filling in mince pies. So > > you can eat any old stuff, and then have some pudding. Or just eat > > some mince pies and do both in one. > > And here I thought the mince in mince pies was minced fruit rather > than fruited mince. >
Erm, not quite.
Mincemeat traditionally is meat, and is still made that way in the dark
'here be dragons' parts of the North of England (and I think in .au or
.nz too)
Recently, it's more likely made with suet, or even more common,
vegetarian suet.
Neil
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