How many mince pies is it acceptable to eat in one day?

[ABitCrapper]

Just asking for a friend.....

12

Is this a trick question? Surely everyone, including your imaginary friend, knows the answer is: ALL of them.

How many have you got?

I feel as if mince pies should be quite filling with all that pastry, but it seems possible to eat a huge amount no problem . Maybe that's how Santa manages

I’ve had 4 today
3 warm with clotted cream

I’ll be in leggings until at least February now

1. I'm off refined sugar for my liver.

I had 6 last Christmas Day lmao 😂

Do you warm them up first?

Well you only eat them once a year, so it doesn't matter how many you have over Christmas because you won't touch one again until next Christmas.

All the mince pies you eat now have to see you out the rest of the year. So crack on.

I've only had two today. Slacking.

I made 42 on Sunday. They were gone by Wednesday. DS1 calculated that he ate 38 of them.

I’m a research scientist, and have looked into this in depth with several double-blind, crossover, placebo controlled trials.
The definitive answer is 17, unless brandy butter is brought into the question.
No Christians were hurt in the execution of this research.

SimplySteve I suspect you are correct. However I plan to start training for my first marathon from January 1st so hopefully I will run it off!

NotQuite 38?!

Wow give that boy a medal!

None if they are not gluten free 😂
Merry Christmas 👍

elephantina shall I have one for you? Pure self sacrifice of course. With brandy butter or without?

.... I'd forgotten about the brandy butter! Mmmmmm

How the hell do you placebo a mince pie? Are they the gluten free ones?

They’ve got fruit in so must count as one of your 5 a day

You are missing vital nutrients so add brandy butter or cream so you get some calcium.

Depends, I have a friend who eats millions in a single night, mind you, he is slightly tubby.. cheerful tho.

And I bet he probably burns it all off though with lots of heavy lifting?

At least 3

--Boxes

I have my own stash as I'm GF. mwah hahaha

Well you only eat them once a year

Says WHO

None. Yuk.

But half a Yule log is fair game

I would also say 6. If puff pastry. If shortcrust pastry, none (so dry and heavy). But I would want to start with one or two for breakfast to spread them out a little.

Ok so, I've made 120 homemade mince pies in the last 2 weeks. I have given away about 80 of them to friends and neighbours. But there seem to only be 5 left in the tin this evening. So hmmm those in the single figures are worrying me!

2 weeks = 14 days. 120-80=40. 5 left = 35 in 14 days. 2.25 per day. Abstemious! (Or my maths is wrong).

I rather think if it is 35 in one day - today - you are in for a very long night !