Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> Back in the late 1950s or early 1960s on the tv show "I've Got a Secret",
> the secret was that the panel had been served pieces of mincemeat pie made
> from mincemeat that was over 100 years old. Apparently, the mincemeat had
> been discovered in the cellar of an 18th century building in NYC. It was
> used to bake a pie to serve for this purpose. The panelists deemed it
> quite edible.


Well of course that was back in the day when host Garry Moore would give
each contestant a carton of Winstons as a prize...

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Greg