🥧 Is It Too Early To Sell Christmas Mince Pies In August?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't panic great outrage in a world of things to
be outraged by, well, this rates pretty lowly on my
I know.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
But some people feel that our traditions are short lived
and we don't and it's okay to acknowledge them, one
of which is Christmas. And people are saying this is
not a drill. Christmas mince pies have been spotted in coals.
As I said earlier, there's only nineteen Mondays left until
the end of until Christmas, but that is still five
months away. Is it too soon? Does it dilute the

(00:30):
Christmas season? If we string it out for too long?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It doesn't bother me.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
No, But you're not the Christmas guy.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm the Christmas guy. What are you talking about? I
love Christmas?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
How many gifts do you shop for for your kids?
How much shopping do you do for the food at
the end of the year for Christmas? And how much
preparations do you do? It all happens the day before
you say, where we doing Christmas?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
It all works, It all works out, And I love Christmas.
I love the vibe of Christmas.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Of course, everyone loves the vibe of Christmas. Does this
wreck the vibe? That's the question.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think what this does is extend that vibe.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
But can you extend the vibe and still feel the vibe?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Look, you've heard what we have to say. Let's make
this a whip pole. A whip pole is an instant
snapshot of what Australia thinks about any given subject.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
And today we're asking mince pies in August too soon?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Johnty is a Milton.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hi John t.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
You guys very well?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
How are you feeling about the early mince pie?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I love a mince pie colds pie with hot custard
any time of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
So cold fruit, hot custard, Yes, at any time of year.
If you see it in the shop tomorrow, you think,
how great is that?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
You telling me they're in coals.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm on the way now. So I like that idea
because yearsly I have hot fruit with cold custard. Now
Johnny is proposing this cold fruit hot custard. Do you
see what's happening? Leanne's Impenruth? Hello, Leanne?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
How do you feel about mince pie's already being in
the s shops?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Look?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I don't mind because you said it's only nineteen mondays
to Christmas, which means there's only nineteen tuesdays to hot
Cross buns.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's actually that is true. That's right Boxing day. There
they are.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think that's for another to duck and Teresa has
joined us in Windsor Terresa.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
How are you feeling about the hot Cross buns being
out already?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'm against because it feels like the normalcy were it's
up h Christmas?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Why would I want to have it? It's true, Yeah,
it's true. It's like those of us that have our
Christmas lights up. I leave them up all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's laziness the time.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Just put the Bengal.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, but if you had that. But the thing is
if you had the Christmas lights on all the yeah,
that would dilute from Christmas. We go, wow, we're out
there Christmas lights.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
You didn't have them as flashing. And then so during
the year non she can but the now ma infestive
time flood.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
The analogy is these mince pies are there and ready
to go.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Kylie's in d Why.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hello, Kylie, how do you feel about this?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm on team fruit min.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
There you go, cold mince pie with hot castard for you, Kylie, A.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Hot mins pie would be disgusting.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I reckon it's the best way to go. Thank you, Kylie.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Susan Warrenville, Well, Sue, how do you feel about this?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I love mince pie absolutely hot, cold with ice cream
any way you like. I used to work for a
place that you used to make them, and I loved it.
A place for quality deserts, and they made them more.
But I lots of no name one's best, and they

(03:50):
are delicious and any time of the year, it doesn't
matter what it is. If you love it, why can't
you have it at anymore?

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Would you be put would you put them out? If
you people are are now? Suit?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah? I do.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's pretty boort. I mean as soon as they came
out in the stores, I have them every day, cup
of tea, black cup of tea with a cold meat
fight knocking, beat up.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And you worked, you were at the cold face of
the fruit mints pie business. What actually is the fruit
mints quality.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Desserts used to make them for they're close now, but
they used to make them for all of the supermarkets,
all the different brands. There's some of them I don't like,
with the that's got too much alcohol in them. But
the no nang rains are the best.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
And I don't like the Maraschino cherry and anything. They
can leave that out. Okay, thank you, Sue. Well, Helen
seems to be not many people are outraged by this.
How do you feel, Helen?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Hi?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Hell yeah, it's too soon to have them out, and
especially if fruit mince pies like Christmas Day is too
soon for me. Every five years, you forget you've eaten one.
You take a bite and in the binner go.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's like those candy can no one.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Likes, says, can do people actually eat the can?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why do they bother making them?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
You see those guys.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Mate, they're for decoration. You don't eat them.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You're not meant to eat them, but you see them
making and you go, good on your mate. No one's
going to eat it.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Every five years, like Helen said, someone will eat it
and then go. That's why I don't eat that more often.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, Well, it seems that seventy eight percent of people
think that this is an outrage and.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
They know they no, they didn't. Only two people thought
it was an outrage.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, were you here?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Were you here? Just then?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
In a world of things, have you seen what's going
on in the world. There's lots of others.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Have you heard our show, Brendan, We love this.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Thank you for all your goals. Thank you until next time.