Jack Monroe #116 Burger and lies

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Flash123

Flash123

Readingismyhobby said:
As a keen observer of pineapple prices, this is not well timed. Delmonte pineapples are £1.10 a tin. Before lockdown they were 2 tins for £1.00.
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That’s a shocking price for tinned pineapple.

I remember growing up we had tuned fruit cocktail and pineapple and I always thought pineapple was fancy. Then when I was about 10 my older brother brought home a fresh pineapple one day and it was genuinely a taste sensation. Thankfully my family and I have a good financial situation now compared to the 90’s.
I’ve just looked at Tesco website and they have a fresh pineapple for 75p and a mango for the same.


obviously if you get the fruit in a food bank box is one thing but for the price fresh would always beat tinned if you were out for a shop???
 
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Switchstreetz

Switchstreetz

Ladderedtights said:


How is she going to decorate the house for filming... THE TAMPON PINEAPPLE!?
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This was my first thought too!

Maybe, if Tampax chip into the tip jar fund, Jack can bung the tampon wrappers in a del Monte peach curry for our viewing pleasure!

MrsMappFlint said:
Fuckinell
Edit apols for swearing, gut reaction
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Are we not supposed to swear on these forums??? Oops...
err not that I have but...

No one check my post history THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW etc etc

NoseyParkour said:
Pineapple & peas macaroni cheese? I’m a poet and I didn’t know it.

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Are we being trolled? The Del Monte Instagram looks like one of the worst things to happen to humanity this year.
(Narrowly beaten only by the global pandemic, alien invasion, near collapse of democracy in several countries etc etc...the usual 2020 things tbh)
 
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Candytuft

Candytuft

This is going to be good. Sausnapple casserole with fat cloves of garlic and plenty of black pepper, anyone? Yum !
Gold.
 
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queenfeline

MancBee said:
That is it on the nose.

She was born into the middle classes, and expected to go up the social scale rather than down. It is why when she had a brief period in relative poverty (she never lived in absolute poverty) she was ill equipped to deal with it.

Anyone else would have just got on with it and when things improved be thankful they got through it. Many get stuck in poverty with no escape. She was lucky and had opportunities very few get. She squandered them and will forever blame others for her failure to capitalise on them.

She has mixed with the very rich and famous. She has lived with a millionaire. She has lived amongst the London elite. She has had friends in influential positions in the media. She has had time in the spotlight and been the darling of the Guardian. She has had a taste of high life and can not understand why she no longer rubbs shoulders with the great and good.

She thinks she deserves better......she doesn't.
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I have been a lurker for a while, but I just wanted to say that this is the best description I have ever seen of why Jack annoys me to no end. Thank you!

(Also hi)
 
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queenfeline

Flash123 said:
That’s a shocking price for tinned pineapple.

I remember growing up we had tuned fruit cocktail and pineapple and I always thought pineapple was fancy. Then when I was about 10 my older brother brought home a fresh pineapple one day and it was genuinely a taste sensation. Thankfully my family and I have a good financial situation now compared to the 90’s.
I’ve just looked at Tesco website and they have a fresh pineapple for 75p and a mango for the same.


obviously if you get the fruit in a food bank box is one thing but for the price fresh would always beat tinned if you were out for a shop???
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I think a lot of people find cutting up a fresh pineapple cumbersome, so that may be why they go for tinned over fresh - you pay for the convenience
 
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heretoreaditall2019

heretoreaditall2019

Adding tinned fruit to her usual blended slop will make the whole thing taste like morning sickness / your own stomach bile
 
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encore

encore

I'm on a night shift and #CanYouNot has absolutely done me in, bravo!
 
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Tabitha D

Tabitha D

This Del Monte thing is just a glorified ad campaign, isn’t it. Their SM following is low so they are hoping to capitalise on Jack’s large following (they may not have appreciated how low her engagement is though). It looks like the deal is to do SM posts and some media interviews, but probably not any live Hellmann’s-style shitshows (unfortunately 😂). If that’s the case, I wonder if they’ve asked her to keep her SM “clean” for the duration of the contract - i.e. no chaoses, no titty pics, no pile-ons, no fake black eye type stuff, possibly no £20 shop, etc. It might explain why she’s changed her conduct lately, but she’ll find it challenging to keep that up!
Oh, and it’s about two months since she mentioned the poverty book now isn’t it. I think we can conclude it’s not going to happen.
 
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waffle maker

waffle maker

Narc ahoy said:
Jack's letter to Edwina is appalling. She was clearly rattled and knew that Edwina had got the better of her, hence the ranting and suicide baiting.



I hate the way how she uses it as a trump card. "I'll show you!! See? That was REAL. I attempted suicide!! How dare you even mention my rich family, you heartless Tory!". It's also completely irresponsible to pretend that she survived an attempt by puking up the pills. People can die several days after an overdose, even if they have no symptoms for a while, as sometimes the liver damage takes time to appear. Even if you vomit up pills, you absolutely MIUST go to A&E. I think Jack is lying though, as per usual.



She goes on about how Edwina never stopped to think how Jack's family would feel regarding merely mentioning her (rich) grandfather. It's funny how Jack never stops to think for a split second how her family feel when she lies about about overdosing in the bathroom, while totally alone, with no one to pretend to.
Except her rich and supportive family round the corner, not to mention the dutiful father of her child. How does she think her family feel, when she talks of being all alone, starving, cold and in grinding poverty? Everyone who knows her family must be thinking how evil they are for not helping, when they can so clearly afford to.

Jack's mother has confirmed that help was offered, and Jack declined, wanting to stand on her own two feet. I think that's why Jack makes such a fuss of how she hid her "poverty" from everyone due to "shame". I think that's part of the narrative she feeds her family, when they inevitably ask why didn't she just call them.

Back to the letter, it shows how snobby she is. Saying "drinking Aldi lemonade in my grandfather's guesthouse" is hilarious. Only Hyacinth Bucket would give a tit about the brand of lemonade. As though the cheap brand of lemonade makes her a real pov, and negates the fact that her grandfather had a guesthouse that she was swanning about in. (Jack scholars, is there any evidence that he actually had multiple guesthouses by the way?)

Also when she said crying with her baby, wondering how it had all come to this. "This" being on benefits - the way that many working class people have lived all their lives. She obviously thinks that that was a terrible, terrible fate for someone of her standing to fall to.

She came tremendously close to admitting that her family where middle class when she said, they weren't poor but they weren't rich.

I think she's been insecure about being middle class her whole life, and her life's ambition was to be poor and working class.

A final aside, if what she claimed in thread 31 about being diagnosed with autism, aged 11, by an educational psychologist who came to her house is true (it's not - educational psychologists are not qualified to assess autism), then how comes she wasn't already on Disablity Living Allowance? It's not/wasn't means tested, so even when she was earning $27000 a year thanks to Daddy, she should have already been on it. Even if she had never felt the need to go on DLA, when the poverty came, a diagnosis should have made it a lot easier to get a larger amount of benefits. But obviously, none of it is true anyway.

Edit: just to be clear I'm not saying that getting benefits is ever easy, or that a disability is a benefits passport. But this was 8/9 years ago when things where different, it was quite a bit easier before PIP, and not being means tested, DLA is quite a stable benefit to have for a life-long condition. A confirmed disability would have given her access to ESA etc and combined with DLA, that's a decent amount.
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Very good points about DLA. Some EPs are definitely qualified to diagnose ASD, but I think the LEA/ School ones refer to a specialist team instead. The young people I know who have a diagnostic report from an EP have paid privately. I don't think she was diagnosed aged 11 though- it was virtually unheard of for high functioning girls in state schools at the time she says it happened.
 
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Captainmouse

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traumatised sideboard said:
So that's why she's been quiet. Trying not to upset Del Monte before they've even started. Are we running a sweepstake for how long this six-month collaboration is actually going to last? I'm taking four weeks. Nice brand-friendly Jack takes far more restraint and self-discipline than she can muster for any period of time before, like the cockroach man in Men In Black, the veil slips to reveal vituperative Twitter Jack.

Del Monte, you could have just asked me to program a special tinned fruit version of Slopbot. Not that I'd have done it for you (I have a sense of morality and ethics) but I'm just saying, it would have been far better value for money. Comes with a no chaos guarantee and all.
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so how long was Hellman’s scheduled for? And how long did it actually last?🤔
I predict 6 months good behaviour is unsustainable for our smol ickle mackie

jenny2603 said:
Alas the £20 shop is still with us. Just checked her Insta. Perhaps she has a vast tax bill looming.

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I think one of the fraus recently viewed her company accounts, and she’s taken out more than she should, so Hmrc will be keeping an eye.
autocarrot 🥕 doesn’t like hmrc, prefers Hercules 😄
 
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waffle maker

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I think the picture of her for the ad is OK, she has normal eye lines etc and looks about 35, and also agree that it's better for her to have a good source of income for 6 months. TURN OFF THE TIP JAR NOW M8!

I hope they have a 'don't be a dick on twitter'/ 'no grifting' clause in her contract.
 
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Droosie123

Droosie123

[/QUOTE]Hello all, this is not a thread I have any background in so I’m sorry if this has been mentioned. Does anyone else remember jack hanging around in a large makeup and beauty Facebook group? She developed quite a large following on the group then people turned on her for pleading poverty while spending a lot of mone
I wonder if anyone else was around for this? It was about 5/6 years ago and when she first decided she was non binary.
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She was a member of Gloss and Mrs Gloss for a while I think and then had a strop about something or other but I’m vague about what it was. Don’t think I was a member at the time.
 
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