Have you swept your assembly area to confirm it’s entirely clear of icing sugar? You can’t be too careful these days to ensure compliance with accepted standards.
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Icing Sugar is banned from this facility; my Security Guard:
… carries out routine searches on the few Authorised Visitors.
In fact, we don’t understand the point of Icing Sugar!
The Surface Treatment consists Almonds with Milk and Caster Sugar. 
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Icing sugar definitely has it’s uses, but mince pies is emphatically not one of them (nor dusting on brownies.)
I’m not googling this, the thought is bad enough, images would likely pop an ulcer.
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Truthfully, my initial thought was that they can hardly be worse than some of the horrible nastiness purveyed annually in the name of ‘tradition’.
But yes, chocolate brownie in pastry is wrong - and how can it be a mince pie if it contains no mince?
Whatever they are, they are NOT MINCE PIES.
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I’ll never understand how blumenthal is still free
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Whimsical reindeer cutout does not a mince pie make.
Brownies are terrific, but they’re NOT FUCKING MINCE PIES!!!
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Fuck. Stop the planet, I need to get off….
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How civilization ends
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Was interested to learn that Heston was out of circulation for a good while with mental health issues and Gill heard him on some radio show recently sounding quite subdued & humble. Very unlike his normal way of being. I hope he makes a full recovery but keeps well away from reimagining mince pie flavours in future.
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I agree, really wish him all the best.
But I swear that if I live to be 100, I will never be able to say the words ‘snail porridge’ without being a bit sick in my mouth.
I’m sure it’s lovely and all that, but yuck.
Yuck.
Sadly it looks like that’s exactly what they’re doing 
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The perils of the ‘Post Truth’ era.
Is nothing safe?
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Lol 
Mince pies are actually pretty horrible as a concept, if you really think about it.
I’m not suggesting we abandon this opportunity to be outraged (heaven forbid), but if Christmas comes and goes without a mince pie, I’m not going to die in a ditch over it.
I have similar feelings for Christmas cake.
And bread sauce.
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Commie
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