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Old August 12th, 2004, 07:10 AM
janice
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:39:29 GMT, "Beverly"
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I loved mincemeat pie when I was a kid! I haven't had it in years.


Sorry for yet another "culture" question - but by mincemeat pie, do
you mean what we call mincemeat, which is mixed fruits and spices etc.
often with brandy too, and eaten mostly at Christmas, or do you mean
what we call minced meat - usually called just "mince" when we mean
specifically beef? Perhaps this isn't what you mean as you call it
ground meat, an expression we just don't have here.

If you mean the fruity mince, then mince pies (and to some extent
mincemeat tart) are quite popular here - available all the year but
very much part of Christmas fare. I've always adored this, even as a
child, and it's one of my favourite things even now (I try to avoid it
most of the year for obvious reasons).

janice
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Old August 12th, 2004, 07:10 AM
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:39:29 GMT, "Beverly"
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I loved mincemeat pie when I was a kid! I haven't had it in years.


Sorry for yet another "culture" question - but by mincemeat pie, do
you mean what we call mincemeat, which is mixed fruits and spices etc.
often with brandy too, and eaten mostly at Christmas, or do you mean
what we call minced meat - usually called just "mince" when we mean
specifically beef? Perhaps this isn't what you mean as you call it
ground meat, an expression we just don't have here.

If you mean the fruity mince, then mince pies (and to some extent
mincemeat tart) are quite popular here - available all the year but
very much part of Christmas fare. I've always adored this, even as a
child, and it's one of my favourite things even now (I try to avoid it
most of the year for obvious reasons).

janice
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Old August 12th, 2004, 11:12 AM
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:24:08, SnugBear
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janice wrote:

OK Laurie...here's a challenge. Show me a way of serving up black
pudding that doesn't make me puke


Ok, I've looked it up and while the *idea* doesn't thrill me, I'm curious
what it tastes like. Let me ask you - is black pudding good for you as
diet food goes? Most sausage type foods are full of things we generally
avoid. I could probably make hash out of it with lots of garlic, onions,
celery, carrots and such. Then I'd throw horseradish on it.

It isn't very good for you, but you usually only eat 1 or 2 slices,
fried, as part of a "Full English" breakfast when you go to a B&B. I
like it - but when I tried to eat a whole blood sausage in Poland, I
found I couldn't finish it.

To be honest Janice, during our two vacations to the UK (which I
absolutely loved), my least favorite aspect was the food. Perhaps it was
just the places we went but ultimately we gave up and started eating at
any Chinese restaurant or American fast food we could find. Everything
was very bland to me. There was a lot of comfort to find out the pan
pizza at Pizza Hut in London was the same as Laurel Maryland g

I don't know where you can have eaten..... after all, our national dish
is Chicken Tikka Marsala, apparently!

Seriously, though, I have American house-guests coming this weekend, and
propose giving them such food as baked trout with white wine and/or
roasted pepper sauce, with fresh potatoes, carrots and cauliflower,
followed by home-made blackberry/raspberry parfait with either
blackberry or raspberry liqueur poured over; tortilla made with
left-over vegetables, plus salad, probably followed by home-made
lavender sorbet; white fish with ratatouille and some kind of
carbohydrate to be determined, probably brown rice, followed by bought
cherry pie since there's some in the fridge; and perhaps we will go out
for Sunday lunch, we'll see. Or else I'll make something like a
vegetarian tartiflette au reblochon with salad..... I hope they don't
find it too bland!


My husband has texture problems - won't eat peanutbutter and banana.
What's wrong with him? ;-)

Daughter used to refuse mushrooms on the ground of texture, but she
loves them now.
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Old August 12th, 2004, 11:13 AM
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 21:47:08, janice wrote:

And I hate horseradish (I don't like
anything remotely spicy, can just about tolerate the very mildest of
curry flavouring).

I like most spicy foods, but horseradish is not one of them. Imagine my
horror when I picked up what I thought was cottage cheese with chopped
vegetables in Poland to find that it was cottage cheese flavoured with
horseradish. It was VILE!
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Old August 12th, 2004, 11:15 AM
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:29:36, JMA wrote:

I was once told that was the reason why elderly people tend to eat more
candy as they age but yet I hardly know any older folks who eat candy. Go
figure.

My father has just about lived on chocolate for the last ten years, as
it's one of the few things he can digest easily (he has had most of his
stomach removed). My mother eats chocolate far more now than she did
when we were younger, when she tried to teach us that a sweet tooth was
unacceptable. She doesn't eat as much as she would like, though,
because of weight gain....
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Old August 12th, 2004, 11:15 AM
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:29:36, JMA wrote:

I was once told that was the reason why elderly people tend to eat more
candy as they age but yet I hardly know any older folks who eat candy. Go
figure.

My father has just about lived on chocolate for the last ten years, as
it's one of the few things he can digest easily (he has had most of his
stomach removed). My mother eats chocolate far more now than she did
when we were younger, when she tried to teach us that a sweet tooth was
unacceptable. She doesn't eat as much as she would like, though,
because of weight gain....
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Website updated 7 August 2004 - for a limited time, be bored by my holiday
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Old August 12th, 2004, 01:27 PM
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"janice" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:39:29 GMT, "Beverly"
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I loved mincemeat pie when I was a kid! I haven't had it in years.


Sorry for yet another "culture" question - but by mincemeat pie, do
you mean what we call mincemeat, which is mixed fruits and spices etc.
often with brandy too, and eaten mostly at Christmas, or do you mean
what we call minced meat - usually called just "mince" when we mean
specifically beef? Perhaps this isn't what you mean as you call it
ground meat, an expression we just don't have here.

If you mean the fruity mince, then mince pies (and to some extent
mincemeat tart) are quite popular here - available all the year but
very much part of Christmas fare. I've always adored this, even as a
child, and it's one of my favourite things even now (I try to avoid it
most of the year for obvious reasons).

janice

It's the pie. They aren't real popular here

Beverly


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Old August 12th, 2004, 01:27 PM
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"janice" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:39:29 GMT, "Beverly"
wrote:


I loved mincemeat pie when I was a kid! I haven't had it in years.


Sorry for yet another "culture" question - but by mincemeat pie, do
you mean what we call mincemeat, which is mixed fruits and spices etc.
often with brandy too, and eaten mostly at Christmas, or do you mean
what we call minced meat - usually called just "mince" when we mean
specifically beef? Perhaps this isn't what you mean as you call it
ground meat, an expression we just don't have here.

If you mean the fruity mince, then mince pies (and to some extent
mincemeat tart) are quite popular here - available all the year but
very much part of Christmas fare. I've always adored this, even as a
child, and it's one of my favourite things even now (I try to avoid it
most of the year for obvious reasons).

janice


It's the pie. They aren't real popular here

Beverly


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Old August 13th, 2004, 02:30 AM
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Beverly wrote:

It's the pie. They aren't real popular here


Right - the fruit, raisins, spices - my mom always added extra apples -
yumm. Cross & Blackwell, Nonesuch. The jarred or dehydrated filling is
sold almost exclusively for Thanksgiving / Christmas and some stores -
even big ones - are not carrying it at all. I'm hoarding some
dehydrated. Since my husband much prefers pumpkin pie, I make a 5 inch
mincemeat pie to have all to myself for Thanksgiving. I make it last for
days. I've been known to put leftover filling in oatmeal g

Thank goodness I have a great recipe for green tomato mincemeat. Fyi, I
hear it's traditional for Mainers to make their own with deermeat.


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