{"id":2386,"date":"2014-03-02T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T14:53:07","slug":"operation-mincemeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"Operation mincemeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the one where you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2010\/05\/10\/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?currentPage=all\">find a corpse and drop it off the coast of Spain<\/a>. This is the one where you find a container full of gemsbok intended for <a href=\"http:\/\/goafrica.about.com\/od\/foodanddrink\/a\/biltong.htm\">biltong<\/a> at the bottom of your freezer, and realise that half of it is a bit chunky and \/ or stringy, and that mincing it would be a better idea.<\/p>\n<p>Enter a handraulic meat grinder, originally acquired to mince perlemoen in the pre-poacher days when we still had perlemoen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140301_192144s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2387\" title=\"20140301_192144s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140301_192144s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to end up with a right arm like a teenage boy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:765,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/arts\\\/critics\\\/atlarge\\\/2010\\\/05\\\/10\\\/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?currentPage=all&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140330090858\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newyorker.com\\\/arts\\\/critics\\\/atlarge\\\/2010\\\/05\\\/10\\\/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?currentPage=all&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 22:50:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18 21:37:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-18 21:37:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:766,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/goafrica.about.com\\\/od\\\/foodanddrink\\\/a\\\/biltong.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20161213160457\\\/http:\\\/\\\/goafrica.about.com\\\/od\\\/foodanddrink\\\/a\\\/biltong.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 22:50:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-08 11:28:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 08:01:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-14 08:01:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the one where you find a corpse and drop it off the coast of Spain. This is the one where you find a container full of gemsbok intended for biltong at the bottom of your freezer, and realise that half of it is a bit chunky and \/ or stringy, and that mincing it would be a better idea. Enter a handraulic meat grinder, originally acquired to mince perlemoen in the pre-poacher days when we still had perlemoen. I&#8217;m going to end up with a right arm like a teenage boy. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}