Jack Monroe #116 Burger and lies

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Recap of thread #115
  1. She asked what is the most thrillingly mundane thing that people have done recently. I think I might know the answer to that.
  2. Hold on to your hats: the recipe for her mince pie toasties has been revealed. Hotter than the sun.
  3. She griddles pineapple out of the window. Why tho. Also: she apparently has hands of Teflon.
  4. She looked so smart in her Nicole Farhi blazer and jazzy shoes. She’s the queen of charity shop bargain hunting.
  5. SB demanded a burger. So she made him one. Out of sausages.
  6. She has kept the receipts for eight years’ worth of shopping. It’s a huge job.
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    For new joiners to the thread, here is @Passive_Aggressive_Lemon ‘s ‘Jack for Dummies’ post (edited to include updated info):

    Thought it might be useful for new followers to have a post at the start of each thread with some info.
    Limegoss article about Jack versus Jamie Oliver : https://limegoss.com/jack-monroe-jamie-oliver/

    Thread #31 is the infamous one in which Jack turns up to talk to us directly. She makes her appearance on p. 17.

    For anyone wanting to relive the glory days of her two-week stint on Daily Kitchen Live (DKL), have a grunk a through threads 2-9.

    *** JACKISMS ***

    Jack’s most oft-used reply to questions on recipe substitutions:

    Yes, absolutely x

    Some other favourite Jack quotes:

    ‘Babe, same’
    ‘I did a chaos’
    ‘My maverick brain’
    ‘My sad little face’
    ‘I’m BUSY’
    ‘I HOOTED / I am FIZZING’
    ‘I laughed up a lung’

    ** NEW **
    ‘Literally hella embarrassed AF’ about ‘Brexit and flip-flopping Covid flippancy’ and she ‘didn’t even vote for it’.

    She likes to describe herself as ‘puppyishly honest and naively enthusiastic’

    As of late November 2020, Jack conceded she is not poor, but living to a budget as she is saving for a forever home for her and SB.

    *****

    One of Jack’s followers once referred to Tattlers as sad hausfraus and Jack herself has likened us to a cabal. Therefore we have become the Cabal of Hausfraus™️. She also recently referred to us as ‘gossip mavens’ (so, we are gossip trusted experts). ** Recent additions to her terms of endearment for Tattle: conspiracy wankers, obsessive groups of completely unhinged bullies, bullying ninnies, and malign, vicious bullies **

    To ‘GrunkaLunka’ your way through a thread means to catch up on posts. Named after a member who rather epically caught up on many threads in a short period of time (and is also a fearless pioneer of the space-time continuum. She really was here both Now and Then).

    Jack once threatened to use her Liam Neeson skills to TRIANGULATE our whereabouts in order to intimidate us, so that’s what we mean by that. * She may also threaten to take us to court - do not be afraid, this is not the first time and it won’t be the last. *

    Jack once sideboard modelled a Vivienne Westwood dress, seeming to infer that it’s what Viv would have wanted (as if she were dead), and then got snippy when corrected otherwise. There may be some ‘RIP Viv’ jokes (she is, of course, NOT dead)

    We sometimes joke about being on Vladimir Putin’s bitcoin payroll list for being evil trolls.

    During her stint on Daily Kitchen Live, Jack produced a godawful looking lasagne, with a thin white sauce that never thickened up, just disappeared. It was widely likened to ‘horse spunk’ - there may be some horse ‘spirit’ lasagne jokes.

    Her last-uttered line to Matt Tebutt on DKL was: ‘Thank you so Matt much, Matt’, which made us all HOOT.

    Jack ended a tweet that listed her (not unimpressive) four-and-a-half GCSE results (A*, A, B, B, C) with: ‘Now duck off’. We sometimes like to use this in our own posts for comedic effect. We are NOT telling other fraus to duck off, simply paying homage to Jack’s own genteel humour.

    *Back in the mists of time, one funny frau used a Jimmy Nail ‘She’s Lying’ picture to illustrate their thoughts on one of Jack’s latest tales. @Alpha Beta thought it was Novak Djokovic, the cabal hooted and Novak Nail was born. You may see reference to Jimmy Nail, Novak Djokovic, or the combination of both: Novak Nail. All demonstrate that she’s lying.*

    Also:
    • She grew up in a 5-bed (mortgaged/owned) house
    • She got a ÂŁ4.5k Omega watch for her 21st birthday
    • Her dad's a bleeping LANDLORD (an oldy, but a goody)
    • Jack and Louisa are no longer in a relationship - in Jack’s words: ‘She [Louisa] left’.
    • ** NEW ** However, during Lockdown 2 (November 2020), a bubble buddy, ‘buddle’ (BB) came to stay with Jack. BB is pescatarian, cycles 200 miles a week, and works in London. Jack is teaching her to cook, while also using her as a figure of gentle ridicule. She cannot cook, she cannot iron, she cannot clean the television properly, she left the hose out and it got eaten by a fox, and she doesn’t know the difference between wet and dry ingredients.
    • Her record for staying off Twitter since the start of these threads is 114 hours and 47 minutes.
    • She is 90% vegan. The other 10% likes to nom nom on Five Guys burger and discounted chicken slices.
    • During her appearance on DKL, she was asked why some mince has a higher fat content. ‘It just does.’
    • The information held on her by Companies House has her year of birth WRONG. She was born in 1988, not 1978.
    • She recently claimed she found her Burberry scarf in a muddy puddle.
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    Here is a link to Jack’s Tattle Wiki page, which also includes clips of Matt Tebutt muttering ‘Terrible!’ on Daily Kitchen Live, courtesy of @Yel) and @Bookweevil ‘s hilarious Glossary of Jack.

    We are terrible for going off on tangents and using too many gifs, so there is another thread where we don’t discuss JM but instead talk about biscuits and stuff. For good light relief when JM is doing too much chaos, come to the Food & Drink threads in Off Topic.

    • Lastly, but importantly, when submitting ideas for the next thread title, please use the words ‘thread title’, as it makes it easier to search. Just using the number won’t be enough. We also can’t have swears in the title, and try to hold off until around p. 40 for your suggestions, if possible. ThankYOU.
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The ‘more jam please mummy’ story really hurt my heart, I felt so so awful that any little child would have to ask and a parent would have to say no. Even thinking about it now, even though I know it was probably bullshit, still hurts me. I came here for Pip Schofield gossip and when I stumbled across the JM threads it was a real eye-opener.
 
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I've just realized why she deleted the burger photo.

The drawing: Cheese, bacon, patty, onion rings, cheese.
What she made: Cheese, patty, onion rings, bacon, cheese.

 
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I have never been able to keep up with these threads, I start one and then by the time I finish it another two have popped up. It's astonishing how fast they move!
 
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If you were to read every single recap line from every thread one after another, you’d still be nowhere near to understanding or appreciating even a smidgen of the Jack Monroe Chaos Theory. Burgers made with ropey sausages and pretend burnt pineapple, all in a day of the life of the ultimate enigma. Thanks as always Pocahontas, it was *chef’s kiss*
 
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Thank you for the new thread! Have I missed anything? Waiting for a midwife appointment at home and the toddler either spilled OR drank my urine sample...she won’t exactly tell me which. I’ve given her a chocolate coin to make up for it. Maybe she’s been looking at Jack’s insta!?
 
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Someone highlighted the unusual neck definition on the last thread. Images of a pre-teen Jack show that she has had that unique outline for 20+ years.

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The ‘more jam please mummy’ story really hurt my heart, I felt so so awful that any little child would have to ask and a parent would have to say no. Even thinking about it now, even though I know it was probably bullshit, still hurts me. I came here for Pip Schofield gossip and when I stumbled across the JM threads it was a real eye-opener.

I see that you have captured one of her many different looks over the years in your avatar. I just don't know where she gets the inspiration sometimes.


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Thank you for the new thread! Have I missed anything? Waiting for a midwife appointment at home at the toddler either spilled OR drank my urine sample...she won’t exactly tell me which. I’ve given her a chocolate coin to make up for it. Maybe she’s been looking at Jack’s insta!?
I sympathise. I have to take my toddler’s wellies off in the buggy or he picks off lumps of mud and leaves and eats them. 🤢
 
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Ah, the milk swigging photo! Highly recommended for lactose intolerants like Jack, who enjoy excruciating stomach aches, and shitting through the eye of a needle.
 
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The ‘more jam please mummy’ story really hurt my heart, I felt so so awful that any little child would have to ask and a parent would have to say no. Even thinking about it now, even though I know it was probably bullshit, still hurts me. I came here for Pip Schofield gossip and when I stumbled across the JM threads it was a real eye-opener.
Same, babe.
I remember reading that in the preface to the book . One paragraph in and it was clearly bollocks to me and I hadn’t heard of her before the book. My friend gave it to me when I was on my uppers and thought it might be helpful.
Manipulative from the start. She finds SB very useful 🙁
 
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I'm still not over the state of that burger and the fact she posted it, all proud of it: frozen onion rings, processed cheese slices, shop bought bun, cooking bacon and a squashed sausage. Dear God! I mean there's nothing wrong with eating tit like that as often as you want, but to post it on SM like she'd made the equivalent of a Meat Liquor Dead Hippie makes me cringe so hard.
 
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We need to be careful Frauen and Herren. Finished burger has been posted on Instagram stories complete with little bursting cartoon hearts that look suspiciously like the ones on our beloved thread.....

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Just seen this and it reminded me of Jack's recipes.

Have put behind spoiler because I think my sense of humour is very warped and potentially sensitive content re alcohol/suicide/death.

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It's so freaky to me that these are all within the same year! It's like a conference of jacks from alternate realities.
I don’t think you quite understand the process! When you’re a husk, then you get the light back in your eyes and some extra Patreons, you become a twelve year old boy. Obvs 🙄
 
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