The Elusive Mincemeat

 Once again, the search was on.  I'm pretty sure I'd seen it earlier in the year on the shelves of ShopN'Save, but there was none to be found the week before Thanksgiving.  So I traveled all the way to Price Chopper and finally found a small cache behind a display rack.  Evidently it's not a top-shelf, priority display item.  But the search reminded me of the old, and I must add unappreciated, narrative of "The Thanksgiving Story."  So one more time:
         My daughter, just out of college, was going shopping at Thanksgiving time and asked me if I needed anything. Yes, I told her, a package of mincemeat, since the local stores were out of it.  A while later, she called me from a store, some place in Clifton Park I think, and said she was unable to find mincemeat, even with the help of a store employee, so she asked me for the brand name of the product.
       "NONE SUCH,"  I told her.  Instantly she was angry;  "That's not funny, Mom.  I've spent all this time looking, and the guy here is even trying to help me. This is no time for a prank."
       Foolish children we all are.