Monday 25 November, 2024

Iceland's Christmas 'minge pies' are going viral... but they're fake

Tragically.

ICELAND HAS RELEASED a line of mince pies for Christmas, at the bargain price of £1.50 for 12.

And you may have seen this picture floating around the internet today:

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Minge pies… minge pies.

The image is going viral on Twitter and Facebook, thanks in part to Caitlin Moran:

And some help from the Independent:

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Here’s the thing, though: the image is actually a doctored fake. Here’s what the real packaging looks like:

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Tragic, we know. Perhaps a rival supermarket doctored the image in anger after Iceland’s mince pies won the taste test.

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Iceland's Christmas 'minge pies' are going viral... but they're fake

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