[post_page_title]No mince pies on Christmas day[/post_page_title]
No one is going to be fined or sent to prison for eating a mince pie on Christmas Day, but this legend is based in fact. Many people, including at least one historian, claim that it is illegal to eat these treats on Christmas ever since Oliver Cromwell banned them in the 1650s.
He was trying to cut back on gluttony in England, so he prohibited people from eating mince pies and several other treats on Christmas in 1657. Needless to say, in didn’t go over so well.
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