Mince Pie Revisionist. Hypocrisy, Cognitive Dissonance and Flaked Almonds

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I went into the food distribution warehouse for a half-day shift on Dec 23rd only to find, in the largest of the chillers, some 300ml tubs of this

with a Dec 24th date on. When I say ‘some’ I mean two pallets of it, each one stacked shoulder-high with the stuff. I don’t know where it came from, or what they thought we might do with it given its very short date and the fact that it’s, well, about to be Christmas. They were asking the volunteers to take any home that they fancied, given that a good deal of it might not get allocated. I took two - one for my lot’s Christmas dinner and the other for my puds over the next week. I finished it on Dec 29th. It was still perfectly fine, of course. I must ask the warehouse manager what happened to the other ton or so.

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I’d always try freezing stuff like that - it’s very hit-and-miss and depending how it was processed it may split, but even if it does, the resulting gloop is still very nice beaten into mashed tates, for example.

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Stick them in the cupboard til next Xmas bake-off. Doubt they’ll taste any different as they would today

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May the last two items not be combined, mashed then frozen for next year?

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