Kate Billington

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Coffee, Cats & Conversation ☕️ Kate Billington’s 900-Day Streak in Taiwan [991] · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

But eating out is a lot cheaper here than it is in Paris or in the UK.

So people will eat out a lot more.

But I do, I have a very good friend here who has a real kitchen because she's got a family apartment that she lives in.

Her and her daughter live there.

And I actually stayed with them for a while when I first moved here.

And then I stayed with them again recently because my

lease on my last apartment ended and then in between i was looking for a new one which is the one i'm in now i was staying with them again so i did bake a little bit then i think the last thing i baked was um taiwanese mince pies which i invented i think they're the only ones in the world wait a minute you need to explain mince pies and taiwanese mince pies okay so

Mince pies are a traditional British Christmas sweet treat.

Even though they've got the name mince, so it's M-I-N-C-E.

which sounds a bit like the word mince, like M-I-N-T-S, but it's not.

It's with C-E at the end, which normally refers to meat.

So minced meat is meat that's been cut into very small pieces.

And they're called mince pies because originally they had meat in them, minced meat, and also dried fruit and spices and sugar and sometimes alcohol as well.

And they were invented a really, really long time ago.

But I think

The recipe that we kind of look at now that we call the original mince pies is maybe from the Victorian era.

So that's 250 years ago or so.

And at that point, they did put meat in them because the Victorians made some really crazy food.

And then after a while, people realized that they would be much nicer without the meat, just as like a sweet treat that's just got dried fruit.

So it's got like raisins and chopped apple and orange peel all kind of mixed together with spices and sugar.

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