Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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19 December 2010
10:5385421#1
A friend called to see me, she said she had just been to a 'get together' with coffee and mince pies. Lots of people there.
The friends said they were very proud of the mince pies they had made and offered her one.
But when she bit into it, it was like cardboard....
Embarrassed at what to do with it, whilst everyone was busy talking, she held the mince pie behind her coffee cup and carefully slipped it, wrapped in the serviette, into her handbag on the floor by her chair.
A little while later she realised she had put it into someone else's handbag.
Even more embarrassed, she carefully went into the handbag again and took it out, putting it into her own, which was stood alongside! Relief !!
Breathing a sigh of relief, went off to the butcher's, whipped out her purse, out came the mince pie in several pieces, all over the butcher's floor.
More embarrassment.... and apologies to butcher.
By the time she and husband had got to my house they were in fits...
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
19 December 2010
11:0185424#2
Lol we have all done it havent we? ?????
19 December 2010
11:0585426#3
LOL - that reminds me - I best buy some decent ones then for visitors - any suggestions on which are the best bought Mince Pies - (I can not bake - or this story would be about me hahaha)
19 December 2010
11:0985428#4
i find tescos value lovely, lots of pastry and not much mince meat
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 December 2010
11:4885435#5
Oh Kath, thank you for that - a laugh to start my Sunday morning.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 December 2010
12:5785447#6
Should have left them in the other person's handbag - that really would have been funny - especially if you could have seen their face when they found it.
Roger
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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19 December 2010
12:5985449#7
One Christmas...way back in the 80s I treated myself to a new-fangled microwave and put a mince pie (a single small one) in for 3mins out of ignorance and the way us chaps do when we want to get the gadget out of the box and set up without reading 'instructions' - tch!
The thing exploded and a friend in the living room was shocked to find that the TV came on all by itself.
Pie was ROCK and welded to the insides of the machine and took an age of warming water up in it to clean it all off - a Merry Christmas!
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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20 December 2010
11:0085572#8
Nice one Richard. Once a temp chef we employed thought a chocolate fondant pudding wasn't quite done when he had turned it out onto the plate. So he gave it 30 secs in our 2000W microwave and it looked perfect. Out it went to the customer - when she put her spoon in it, it sent smoke signals three feet in the air! The whole interior of the pudding had burned to a cinder.
PG.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 December 2010
14:2485621#9
Still laughing at Rogers post