Weird World christmas mince pies

‘It doesn’t say Christmas on the mince pie box’ season gets earlier every year – 19 satisfyingly festive takedowns of the latest culture warrior

David Harris. Updated November 3rd, 2025

It seems that the date for people complaining about the lack of the word ‘Christmas’ on festive products comes earlier every year. We’re barely past Halloween, and already the usual suspects are getting in a right old flap and shouting at coffee cups and mince pies.

Here’s the latest snowflake to pop up on Twitter to have a bit of a whinge over Tesco’s ‘Merry Mince Pies’. Take it away, Ben Gilroy – founder of the highly unsuccessful far-right Liberty Republic party.

Tesco can plaster tinsel all over the box, but apparently the word “Christmas” is too risky for their “Merry Mince Pies”. Welcome to the era of corporate tiptoeing so as we don’t offend the murderers and rapists flooding the country. We are doomed. Bah humbug

All so predictable and tiresome. The replies all tended to make the same obvious point, in entertainingly funny ways.

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