People are only just realising that mince pies don’t contain meat and they’re mind-blown

People have been left flabbergasted after learning mince pies are actually filled with raisins and sultanas, not mincemeat as they’d long suspected, and now feel as though ‘the entire planet in on the same joke’

Sometimes you’ll end up eschewing certain foods based on their name alone, avoiding them no matter how many people encourage you to give them a try. This was just the case for one mince pie -dodging individual, who went their whole lives turning their nose up at the festive treat, believing it to be filled with meat.

They were recently left completely aghast after learning this wasn’t the case, as the Christmassy dessert is packed with sweet raisins and sultanas, not the savoury mince like they’d long assumed. They now don’t understand how they could have been so massively mistaken for so long, and feels completely out the loop.

Taking to Reddit, where they go by the username u/Vril_Maiden, the baffled mince pie newbie wrote: “Is the entire planet in on the same joke? Why does everybody say there is mince in them?

“Whenever you ask somebody why they’re eating that or what is in them they will all look at you with this blank stare as if you’re slow and say, ‘mince’ in the same tone as if to suggest, ‘how could you not know this moron, its mince. There’s mince in it’. Is this a collective inside joke that old people do to wind up kids or something?”

They went on to reflect: “Now that I look back, I can see that everybody seems to actively tried to avoid telling me what was in it but instead they were actively trying to lead me astray and to believe there was mince in it.

“I don’t understand how every adult in the world seems to be collectively in on this joke.

“Does something take place around 40 where the government sends everyone a letter informing you to try to trick and manipulate every child on earth into thinking there is meat in them and to actively refuse to ever tell them what is in it when they ask?

“Otherwise, I cannot understand what has taken place here.”

Thankfully, they weren’t on their own with their assumption, as one person wrote: “My wife was the same and discovered last year what they actually are, and that she really likes them.

“For ten years she thought I was putting raw meat pies in the cupboard for months and eating the cold. With custard or ice cream. Or brandy cream. And somehow not getting sick.”

Another came at it from another perspective, commenting: “Weirdly I’ve always avoided them since I first tried one at a young age because it lacked meat. I was expecting a mince meat pie all excited and that and it’s b***** awful fruit and s***. F****** pies of lies.”

According to the Walkers Shortbread website, mince pies were first served back in the early middle ages, and were said to be a particular favourite of Henry VII.

These original meaty pies were packed with actual minced meat, chopped fruit, and preserving liquid, with mincemeat having originally been invented as a means of preserving meat in a time long before fridge freezers, without having to cure, smoke, or salt it.

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