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Originally Posted by Fawkes

What about people who eat mince pies on Christmas day?

Ignorance of the law is no defence

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Myth-busted...

6. It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day
An Act of June 8 1647, declared that "forasmuch as the Feasts of the Nativity of Christ, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and other Festivals commonly called Holy-Days, have been heretofore superstitiously used and observed, be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that the said Holy Days be no longer observed". Mince pies were not singled out. In 1657, the diarist John Evelyn was arrested at a forbidden Holy Communion service on Christmas Day and interrogated as to why he "durst offend, & particularly be at Common prayers, which they told me was but the Masse in English". The anti-Christmas laws of the interregnum lapsed at the restoration.