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The dinner of minced collops mentioned in Making Money may want some explanation. This is another of those words with multiple meanings.

We do not believe that the dish involves any of the flower beetles such as Collops nigriceps (illustrated) or Collops vittatus.

A collop is also a thin steak, probably from a lean, tough portion, usually for marinating or layering in a terrine or other concoction. Minced collops sound a bit like Shawarma.

What is really puzzling is Mr Aimsbury's mention of "beccles" as an unspecified but no doubt wholesome lesser-known part of an animal. Beccles is in reality quite a nice little English country town on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, and a cursory search on the word has failed to throw up any other food-related associations...