On Thu 28 Apr 2005 10:23:26p, Gregory Morrow wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> 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...

LOL! That's probablyi true.

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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