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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This meme does meat pies dirty (unless "mincemeat pie" is one of those horribly deceptive terms like "mince pie")

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A mincemeat pie is another name for a mince pie. So yeah.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Then I take it back. I have never been as disappointed as the first time I was offered a "mince" pie

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mincemeat it is made from dried fruit and booze.

S’far as I can tell it’s the filing in mince pie.

But like. Ew. No way there’s enough booze in there to make that sound attractive.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess, if you don't like raisins and currants? It's just a fruit pie, I don't really see what's so horrible about that. It'd be more understandable if we were talking about a fly cemetery, a similar pastry with a much more interesting name.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's a texture thing, for me. and I'm particular about the booze I put in my food. it sometimes gives weird flavors.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Mincemeat is not the same, at least where I'm from... Mincemeat is dried fruit and spices, no meat

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago

Where I'm from "mince pie" is dried fruit and spices, while "mince" is equivalent to the US ground beef (or less commonly other meats), and a "meat pie" is made from beef mince.

It made for frustrating Christmasses as a child because mini meat pies ("party pies") are delicious and available at every other celebration.

[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago

Thankfully that's not the case here in NZ. Otherwise the rather popular mince-n-cheese pie would be weird.

Today, 'mincemeat' as a term by itself, is unusual. It's usually either just 'mince' (meat) or 'fruit-mince' (not meat).

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I'm just going off of Wikipedia, idk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince_pie

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The more savory a pie gets, the more I like it. Pumpkin pie is okay. Mince meat is fine. Turkey is great!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pumpkin pie is the devil.

But there is something amazing about chicken/turkey pot pies or other savory pies in that vein.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Hail satan!

[–] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

French meat pie (Tourtiere) was always my favorite part of family Thanksgiving.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

They've never had a good mincemeat pie then.

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

missed opportunity to mention to volume of a pizza pie with radius z and depth a

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

How can a probability be the null set?

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

What's going on here? Mincemeat pies are delicious.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Theta minus sin theta? What does that give you

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Kepler's Equation

[–] TheOakTree@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

(1/2)×θ×r^2

is the area of a circle sector, like a slice of pie.

(1/2)×sin(θ)×side1×side2

is the side-angle-side formula for the area of a triangle.

We know that the triangle encompassed by the sector has two sides that are equal to the radius, so we replace side1×side2 with r^2. Since the area of the arc segment is equal to the area of a sector minus the triangle, we can subtract triangle area from sector area to get

(1/2)×(θ-sin(θ))×r^2

which is the area of the arc segment, as shown with pie in the picture.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is theta in radians? That's the only way I see this working

[–] TheOakTree@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's in radians. The degree version has a less clean format.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That makes way more sense, I was so confused, cheers