The Tesco ones were called "merry" too. I wonder if that's an established nomenclature and I've just not been paying attention. Imagine the scandal.
Anyway.
The pastry on these is bland, far too soft, and quite claggy. The filling has a nice, juicy flavour but there's not a lot of it. There's nothing really actively bad about these but they are just quite disappointing. 2 out of 5. #MincePieADay #MincePieFest2024
I wonder if 'merry' is a way of saying 'brandy', or perhaps a way of implying brandy when there isn't any (or not much) brandy.
ReplyDeleteI wonder the same. Sort of lampshading the absence of booze.
DeletePlease allow me to add an extremely nerdy contribution to this speculation. Here's a journal article I came upon a while back that uses the term "merry" in a tongue-in-cheek way that may actually apply here:
Delete"Have yourself a ‘merry’ little Christmas: Alcohol adverts and alcohol content within adverts in the run-up to Christmas"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666535223000368
(As far as I've seen, that's literally the only time the word is used in the paper...)
Great content! For science!
DeleteHaha...indeed! I should have maybe also noted that there's a big "well, duh" component to the takeaway from that paper, and it's probably not the sort of research that should be highlighted to anyone you know who thinks social scientists just spend time and money finding out stuff that "everybody knows" anyway...
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