Jack Monroe #119 She says lots of things, many of which are false

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triangulateme

I haven't posted for a while (are you not aware of my work? I'M BUSY) but these threads are priceless.

The food looks completely revolting. While I can (and do) laugh at just how awful it is, I feel genuinely sad that this is what Jack thinks of people who are struggling.

Yet again, it isn't about trying to come up with recipes which embrace the joy of food, instead, it's all about creating inedible slop - the message being, if you're not well off, it's the best you can possibly hope for. Honestly, making a vegan 'meal' from vegetable peelings?

There are loads of ways to have nice food that doesn't cost a lot. It doesn't mean being miserable. She actually reinforces poverty with the kind of 'recipes' she advocates.

She just makes me angry and sad.
 
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FeelingGroovy

MancBee said:
I love to mop gravy up with bread, it's my guilty pleasure. When I visit my partner's (upper) middle class parents, it's all I can do to stop myself nipping to the kitchen mid meal for a slice. I could just imagine their faces.
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When clearing away after dinner, I can frequently be found drinking the gravy out of the jug* (if any remains after dinner) like complete greedy goblin.

god I love gravy.
* actual gravy boat only used on Xmas and if we have guests. Otherwise it’s a Pyrex jug.
 
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Smeghead

I’ve wanted to laugh, love and agree with every post for about 20 pages
 
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Narc ahoy

Cabal, what does lard actually taste like? I have never consumed it, and only heard of it used in reference to bad things. I didn't know anyone seriously ate it this century.
 
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HotesTilaire

Slopbot Mel Donte has told me “try my citrus it’s really delitchious” and I can’t breathe for fizzing and laughing

Edit the little shite
 
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DandyLion

colouredlines said:
I'm still amazed that blending raw onions then boiling them was the result of two full weeks of work.

Imagine what her first drafts were like...
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I’ve a sneaking suspicion that this was one of Jack’s famous “one and done” recipes - like her lasagne white sauce. Which we all know to be a complete waste of time, effort, food and money - and the people who are cooking Jack’s recipes cannot afford that kind of food waste, nor do they have the well stocked fridges, freezers and store cupboards to rustle up an alternative meal when the family are complaining of hunger later in the day. I can barely imagine a more depressing Christmas.

The thought of people actually using their limited budget to follow this “meal plan” for it to go uneaten, or else reluctantly swallowed down... brought to you by a poverty cosplayer, dining out on a few months on benefits from almost 10 years ago... honestly Fraus, I cannot find the words.

I never understood why people take a break from the threads until now, she can really get to you, can’t she?
 
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NP

Under each individual recipe she’ll need to force in her “origin story”, relive the moment she thought up the idea for beige Marie Rose sauce while under a train, and how she kicked a man in the shins while wrestling for the wrinkly yellow-sticker chicken. Jack isn’t capable of typing up a simple list of ingredients plus method.
 
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Cookiecookie

I'm very happy I ate my breakfast before my Grunka, because that would've totally put me off my toast!

Honestly, no words for that Christmas dinner, except it will forever haunt my soul.
 
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FrumpyCat

We have been doing this for the last three christmases.
It is awesome. No cooking, minimal washing up , tastes delicious. And breakfast for boxing day.
 
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Jelly Bean

Just caught up and wtaf was that 'meal'?
Why were the sausages nearly as long as the poor wizened elderly jaundiced chicken? Why were the accompanying vegetables so sad and flaccid and greasy? What the fuck was that thing in a glass? It appeared to be lumpy sick nestled against greasy fish fingers.
Literally nothing celebratory or joyous about that whole miserable affair. Is that the point though? Is poor people's food meant to look vile and unappetising?

(I laughed and laughed at @zeedoubleu finding here through searching 'Jack Monroe attention seeker'. Reminds me of a newby to Sali Hughes threads saying they found it by googling 'is Sali Hughes a wanker?' )
 
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TurnedUpInTipp

MancBee said:
I love to mop gravy up with bread, it's my guilty pleasure. When I visit my partner's (upper) middle class parents, it's all I can do to stop myself nipping to the kitchen mid meal for a slice. I could just imagine their faces.
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It's the bread or licking the plate!
 
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Incywincy

Ladderedtights said:
That bird looks like it’s gone through a disastrous turmeric treatment at a spa.
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This made me laugh out loud!!

Minky McMoneypenny said:
OMG, she's lost a bit of eye too
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And this made me run for the bathroom



Does anyone else think the way Louisa worded her tweet was strange? She didn't say she tested positive or that she had corona. She simply said "a positive corona test result".

Maybe Louisa isn't positive. Jack may or may not be. Maybe it's SB since the story started with him/his teacher. So Louisa is just saying "oh great, sharing a house with corona. Happy Birthday to me", kinda..
 
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bazzam

does anyone know how much the thirfty shades postcard victims have paid yet?
 
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hydeist

Has she deleted that tweet or am I just inept and can't see it?
Edit: am just inept
 
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Lanie

colouredlines said:
I'm still amazed that blending raw onions then boiling them was the result of two full weeks of work.

Imagine what her first drafts were like...
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ThiS is now I think it went. Day one
Get onion

Day 2 start peeling onion
Day 3 look at onion
Start chopping onion ( get distracted by floofs)

Start again

Day 1 get onion......
 
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Scarletfever

DandyLion said:
I never understood why people take a break from the threads until now, she can really get to you, can’t she?
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Yes. Luckily the razor sharp wit of these threads has me hooting up lungs right left and centre - keeps the despair at bay.
 
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