Jack Monroe #102 Stop getting Bond wrong!

[Nottonightbabe]

I think the £20 shop Jack is by a million miles the one I hate the most. Nasty manipulative little narcissist.

And then to start the whole "I'm exhausted" routine for sympathy from her followers who end up feeling like they've done something wrong. Horrid.

Here's a tip Jack, if being called out is exhausting you so much - FUCK OFF THEN.

 

[Alansbigplate]

Do you mind if I give it a miss? I’ve already nearly been poisoned this week. Mr ssw decided to do a Jack style chaos involving a sticky toffee pudding and garlic Mayo.

 

[Alansbigplate]

This one has finally got me, I am sat on my own and could not stop myself laughing (why should I?) I think it's the crepey kneck with the facetuned face, the tongue, the fork, the hair, the look to the camera.....I just love it all.

Even better with a...

 

[Harrybosch]

I'm behind and therefore someone else may have pointed this out already.

Jack NEVER talks about eating locally or seasonally. Her Hootsuite offerings never tie in with what's around at the moment. I feel this is chef cook 101 though. So many cooks post recipes saying things like 'Make the most of this season's squashes/mushrooms/cabbages/etc. with this easy recipe...' or something like that.

There are a million ways she could have been more gracious in her reply. Agreeing that eating out of season isn't great, but that it can be really hard to eat locally/seasonally all the time. Offering suggestions of pizza toppings that are in season. Saying that yes, this is an area she could improve, but she struggles because xyz, does anyone have any tips? Highlighting local, seasonal suppliers, organic farms, community gardens, etc.

I try really hard to eat and live ethically, but I get that perfection is impossible. Most people respond well if you admit you don't always get it right. There's no need to be so defensive and rude all the time.

I am sure somebody posted a vegan society thing recently which stated they had removed her from their list as she’s not vegan, but I couldn’t find it

That was Veganuary. Different organisation.

 

[traumatised sideboard]

After enforced cookery, hot lettuce, finger-splinters and foot-shards, how long do we reckon until Louisa goes out for the proverbial cigarettes? The last post to her Strava will be a mad dash down to Dover, disappearing somewhere across the Channel. Ten years later, in a desolate part of Eastern Europe, a quiet upper class lady in a provocative shroud tends her crops with a haunted look in her eyes. It will take decades to heal from her trauma, possibly even longer than it will take Jack to recover from fracturing her eye socket on a tap. For now, she is just grateful that nobody in this part of the world knows what the fuck anchoïade is.

 

[Chip1984]

I took this as a sign of narcissism/BPD. Meghan Markle had a cat called Archie. Mrs. Jack is whoever Jack's current victim is. To a narcissist, they are not individuals - just an adjunct.

It's not a trait of BPD. I'm not focusing this at just you but I've noticed a few fraus have suggested Jack may have BPD. As someone with the diagnosis, it's can be quite hurtful, as there seems to be the assumption that people with BPD have no empathy and are manipulative, which is completely untrue. I wouldn't be able to do the job I do if it was.

It is a very misunderstood and stigmatised disorder. People with BPD can infact have a strong sense of empathy; they can empathise with the suffering and also the joy of others. I would never dream of treating people the way Jack does - she is definitely leaning more towards the traits of NPD and HPD than BPD.

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

I made Mac and cheese tonight. No jack recipe required.

 

[Pocahontas]

Its shit and ageist. I think Jack used it re the shopping trolley.

She did. ‘Oh, I can’t maraud my nana trolley around Asda, I’d be a massive liability, me.’ Ageism sucks - we’ll all be old one day, and that’s if we’re lucky enough to be.

There are plenty of ‘nanas’ and grandads who’d pull that splinter out with their bare teeth and spit it into next Tuesday without batting an eyelid.

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

I'm having issues moving on from the miracle of the finger.

 

[Fruitjack]

I am making the cannelini buerre blanc and it’s all your fault.

 

[MancBee]

When will someone at charities that help those in need call her out on this £20 nonsense? She is supposed to be an ambassador for the Trussel Trust, surely they can't just stand by and let her undermine their attempts at changing attitudes and government policy.

She is playing into the hands of those that think benefits are far too generous. It is only a few weeks since she was being held up as an example by those she purports to hate. But still she persists. She is dangerous.

 

[Scarletfever]

Uh oh, asparagus-gate continues

 

[Gnomic Gnome]

It's not a trait of BPD. I'm not focusing this at just you but I've noticed a few fraus have suggested Jack may have BPD. As someone with the diagnosis, it's can be quite hurtful, as there seems to be the assumption that people with BPD have no empathy and are manipulative, which is completely untrue. I wouldn't be able to do the job I do if it was.

It is a very misunderstood and stigmatised disorder. People with BPD can infact have a strong sense of empathy; they can empathise with the suffering and also the joy of others. I would never dream of treating people the way Jack does - she is definitely leaning more towards the traits of NPD and HPD than BPD.

I'm someone who said that recently so I would like to apologise to you. My post was poorly worded.

What I meant to say was that I do think Jack has a PD (and we can only speculate from the comfort of our armchairs). I mentioned EUPD because (to me) she has an unstable self-image, has trouble in her relationships and there appears to be some (family?) trauma lurking away in the background. What I did NOT mean to imply is that EUPD would be an excuse for her willingness to hurt people or advance herself at the expense of others.

I do apologise if my views came across as ill-informed or as propping up unhelpful stereotypes. Thanks for pulling me up on this x

 

[Droosie123]

So she reckons she’s feeding three of them on £20 a week, three meals a day each? (She’s the one who included SB, though we all know he’s not there) So that’s about 32p per meal each? And she buys limes, duck eggs, pomegranate, and Brussel sprouts?
Tesco are selling packets of spaghetti for 20p, but heaven forbid she should actually help people on a real budget who don’t have a ready supply of giant haemorrhage pasta, fancy cheese and a veg box on hand.

Exactly, she’s playing at poverty, same as anyone middle class who thinks they could feed their family on £20 and that poorer people are not educated enough to do it. They ignore the fact that for many families, the minuscule food budget occurs week in and week out with no end in sight.
They can’t just splurge £2.40 on duck eggs because they like them, their budget wouldn’t allow it. Jack splurging on duck eggs shows she has no worry about where the next £2.40 is coming from.

 

[Silver Linings]

She’s actually an evil genius. The squiggles are falling over themselves to berate the haterzzz and the trolls and tell her to mute them but there’s nothing negative at all on twitter. She may as well have said tattle in every tweet. One person asked about contingency money and Jack jumped down her throat and spun the web of lies and hair shirtiness from it. Well done, Jack. You win.

 

[Duckypoo]

Honestly people like her are so bad for the reputation of those people who have ACTUAL BLOODY CHRONIC ILLNESSES

I have nerve damage, amongst the shopping list of other crap, and consequently stumble, trip, burn myself without knowing. I hardly ever tell anyone about the latest knock because it is so monotonous and dull, plus sounds attention seeking. And she's crying over a fecking splinter??!

Boils my piss.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Nice followers you got there Jack. And interesting that you specifically said it was "Some People on Twitter" who were giving you grief about it a mere 10 minutes ago.

 

[Fruitjack]

A bit quicker than the US elections, the results are in.
I used a vegan chicken style stock and vegan spread, as specified. I followed everything exactly to the timings. She includes salt in the costings but never adds it and it shows. It is neither unctuous nor subtly powerful and it most certainly does not provide a provocative shroud for pasta. It most definitely would not sit on a hifalutin restaurant menu. (Even as a very long term vegan Frau I have eaten at a few of these but rest assured I do not have a house full of carefully collected
ethnic nicnacs).
What it actually was, once salt and a sprinkle of nutritional yeast was added, and served with some wilted greens with a bit of chilli flakes, was a pleasantly moreish dish of comfort food. If the description had been ‘I make this when I want to curl up under a blanket and eat something I don’t want to chew and is a nice carby comforting hit’ then I probably would have given her the benefit of the doubt. I’d still prefer a bowl of pasta and beans with olive oil, garlic, loads of salt and chilli flakes which is quicker, uses less fuel to cook and is equally comforting and similar in cost, but it’s not her worst. Her sludgy pic looks better than mine, sorry for the lack of filthy hands.

 

[Alansbigplate]

I hope it helps to know that you make my ouchy black doggo head a bit better with your gif-ts

Your gifs are helping more people with the black dog than Jack’s Good Food for Bad Days ever did. Have some bitcoin.

It means everything!

 

[Anonymous One]

(sorry for the spam I’ve been avoiding black dog head shit by giffing)

Your gifs are helping more people with the black dog than Jack’s Good Food for Bad Days ever did. Have some bitcoin.