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This is completely awesome.

It’s going to be a very regional competition - I wouldn’t even know where to find a mince pie in Seattle. Which I imagine is going to be a pretty common problem for much of the world.

As a side note - I was curious if those countries the Southern Hemisphere, (and thus a warm sunny XMas), would be as into Mince Pies, but a quick google of turned up Yes!

That's a feature I might add, location of consumption. Thanks.
Mince pie is a thing in America, they're just much larger than the British treat. From what I can tell, it's a similar filling, just, expanded to a full-size pie.

In my experience, you can find it in any supermarket around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

(Example: wal-mart http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mrs.-Smith-s-Classic-Mince-Pie-27-...)

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It's unfortunate that it apparently doesn't parse how many you eat -- you need a separate tweet for each consumption.
I did consider that, but it would be far too easy to just put #mpt #eaten 10000. So I left it as 1 per tweet.