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Show Mince Pies for Luck That's British Tradition i One of England's gay Christmas traditions centers around its delectable delec-table mince pies. It seems that each ! mince pie eaten between Christmas ! Eve and Twelfth Night will ensure , a whole month of good luck In the coming year. That works out to just about a pie a day for 12 days, to cover the calendar cal-endar year a stunt that would teem more likely to cause chronic dyspepsia than good fortune. But these aren't the pies we Americans are accustomed to the English mince pie is about the size of a doughnut. To eat a dozen In as many days is no trick at all, when two or three of them can bt gobbled with a cup of tea. |