Fillings include jam, custard, cream, sweet mincemeat, chocolate and apple. Mincemeat pie is similarly served with cheese. Homer and Marge set up a stall, selling Homer's tomacco and Marge's fresh-baked mincemeat pie. Chopped almonds and grapes were used as a substitute for mincemeat. Mincemeat pie was brought to New England by English settlers in the 17th century. When Melissa goes to the phone, Abel secretly puts some brandy in the mincemeat. They are also used as filler in foods such as mincemeat and Christmas cake. It expanded rapidly, buying numerous dairies, ice cream manufacturers, cheese producers, and mincemeat processors. Jam and mincemeat were soon added to the range. Preserved mincemeat may be stored for up to ten years. "Making mincemeat" of someone means defeating them easily and soundly at something. Montagu selected the code name Mincemeat from a list of centrally held available possibilities. Included in this was Operation Mincemeat. The films "Operation Mincemeat" and "The Dig" are also currently in production. I've already done the painting and they're going to work that to mincemeat.