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

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But it also makes me feel so sad that her middle class and blue tick supporters think it is OK to even suggest poor people eat waste products.
It is really sad. The state of the food is funny until you remember people will try to cook it and why.

Sorry @triangulateme I posted before reading everything and saw I've just paraphrased you here
 
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The reason why her cake has burnt is because it has too much sugar in from the mincemeat and ginger ale.

As frauen and herren know, baking is a science and ingredients cannot be messed around with like her other “recipes”. There is a reason why cooks and chefs test, retest and test again recipes for cakes. It is because you need to be so precise with the flour/sugar/egg/ flavour combinations. She has just done her “one and done” thing with egg, flour, ginger ale and mincemeat without thinking (because she doesn’t know) that 2 of those ingredients are sugar-laden.

I know you know this.

I know she doesn’t care about this.

We shouldn’t care about this.

Does she mention it’s vegan ?
 
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I know some people who save vegetable peels for making stock from and I also know a few die-hard zero-wasters (from who I once got a really nice banana peel curry) that would love the idea of re-using carrot peels in a nut roast.

But I totally agree on how awful it is to normalise the idea that poor people should eat scraps. Zero-waste cooking can be a fun challenge when you can afford otherwise. It's depressing if not dehumanising when you are forced to basically eat out of the bin.

She has just done her “one and done” thing with egg, flour, ginger ale and mincemeat without thinking (because she doesn’t know) that 2 of those ingredients are sugar-laden.
But she's a maverick! Her superpower means that testing is not neccesary.
 
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#thread title slop savant
just to say autocarrot not only inserts themselves, but if I type # they insert thread title
 
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Just a thought:

* Jack initially is working for the express to show the right wing how.... you can indeed “have a Christmas dinner” for £20. According to her this benefitted poor families?
* Jack subsequently acknowledges poor families won’t have read her stuff in the express? So is lucky the editor is allowing her to cross publish to her site

What was the point in working for the express then? Was it just to prove right wing narratives correct? The express will know that after years of readership decline the ones left certainly aren’t the ones rationing out 100g of prawns between a family of 4, so they’ve done it to “prove” how “easy” eating on the cheap is?

Also lol precise and whatever else, yes sweetie the rest of us are sat chain smoking at our desks giving out any old shite! She really does think it’s a national tragedy she’s got to do any work at all doesn’t she
 
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It is really sad. The state of the food is funny until you remember people will try to cook it and why.

Sorry @triangulateme I posted before reading everything and saw I've just paraphrased you here
This is such a horrible message that poor people should just eat any old crap. Buying all the sticker products like she does is much more wasteful as they often work out more expensive than if you just bought your normal meal things that you had planned. If you are sticking to a budget chucking in random cheap processed food just because it’s on sale is a false economy- buy some butter!

peelings can go in the compost bin.
 
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is that what it actually is? I thought it was veg peelings, rice pudding, left hanging around to discolour, and some sort of grub, from the garden well I never

whispers rate my plate
 
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Maybe, somebody she has been working with has a positive test? And she now has to isolate? Maybe JM/bb haven’t had results yet?
 
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Make the Yuletide graaaayyyyy
From now on air bubbles will be on displayyyyyyy
 
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Also by not cutting them, one end will be cooked more than the other, hence you cut things uniform size so they all cook! Not some semi raw some total mush.

santa needs to deliver cooking for dummies to mackie, she has no clue of even the basics, let alone anything verging on complex.
 
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It's funny how she simultaneously work SO HARD all the time, but also doens't need to test anything because she's got her lil maverick brain with some sort of Midas touch (I don't mean that thing where all she does is turning things into slop). What's the hard work then?.
 
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Why would you not even cut them up?! I doubt that she has actually peeled them as they're not even topped and tailed. Who the hell puts an entire carrot on their plate if their name's not Bugs Bunny?
Also the tops and tails are excellent for stock. If she's a peel-saver, one would think she'd be a top and tail saver as well. A lot of my peel ends up in compost because there's only so much you need for stock but actual vege ends are a different story. If she hadn't only just jumped on the zero waste bandwagon she would know this. All she's doing is shifting the waste to post-plate as no one's going to eat those ends.
 
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Bib no ones going to eat any of it surely?
 
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Do you think ( of course it isn't) that she's actually just winding us up. I fail too see how she can plate that up as a real meal. I honestly don't know a single person who eat it. I sent a picture to my mum and Said planning on making this, this year and she actually said where did you find that recipie and I am glad youre not cooking for me this year ( rude but true)



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Does anyone follow Elly Pear on Insta? She’s very much about zero waste, her recipes are often vegan and are tasty.

24 hours later I can’t get the thought of gravy made from blended raw onions, lard and “baking spread” out of my head it’s proper sent me under
 
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i feel really sad about people making this christmas dinner and having a horrible meal on a day that is supposed to bring the much needed happiness that so many people need this year! Even if some of the components are salvageable it'll all be ruined once you pour that absolutely foul gravy all over it
 
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24 hours later I can’t get the thought of gravy made from blended raw onions, lard and “baking spread” out of my head it’s proper sent me under
What actually *is* 'baking spread'?
* I was about to ask this and then I thought 'for the love of god, just google it!'
** Then I thought wait! I can pointlessly up my engagement by asking the whole world on Twitter!
*** Then I just googled it.
****And left this here for the lolz.

And since this is now a kind of pointless post, I'll add: I'm occasionally bamboozled here by things you guys reference that are foreign to me. Alan? Some guy called Brian BakingSpreadPaddock? Constantly going to Iceland? idk.

But many threads ago, back in the mists of slime, someone mentioned a little thing called Taskmaster, and I don't know what made me google it but I did and oh my giddy aunt, thank you! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
 
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