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Another day, another internet kerfuffle: on Monday, U.S.-based food website The Spruce posted a recipe for a mincemeat and apple tart as a delicious, traditional holiday treat. The original recipe, published in August by British food writer Elaine Lemm, called for 9 ounces of homemade or store bought mincemeat, a mixture usually of currants, raisins, sugar, apples, candied citrus peel, spices and suet, typically baked in a pie. For this holiday re-publish, though, the photographer confused “mincemeat” with “minced meat” and charmingly staged peeled apples, dough — and a bowl of ground beef, eventually piled (unseasoned, mind you) into the pie crust in subsequent steps. The media was aghast.