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This mixture can be made at home, but is also available either canned or bottled. The most common use is in the Christmas Mince Pie or Mincemeat Tart , but there are many kinds of Pastry containing mincemeat (''see also'' Fruitmince ).

The term ''mincemeat'' has become a common image, even perhaps a Cliché . To ''make mincemeat'' out of one's adversary is to impose defeat in an especially complete and humiliating manner.

Operation Mincemeat was a World War II plan used by Allied forces to deceive its Axis counterparts by planting a body with false secret papers where it would be found by German spies.