The poor can use their butter knives to help open ring pull tins though. If they don’t have butter knives, could they use a fish knife instead?
Jack Monroe #126 Dangling her fl*ps over a Cotswold sideboard like none of it matters
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I do struggle a bit - I'm left-handed and I feel wrong and awkward trying to use one.
Surely a can opener is one of those ‘store cupboard basics’. Like a measuring jug and a spoon and an expensive blender/ food pocessor.
She won’t need to spend with all that donated fish ...I would bet she also has numerous tins of del Monte stuff.
I'm really glad JM has the guts to speak out about the tyranny of Big Tin Opener.
It's brilliant because she would never produce a recipe that included, for example, an expensive bullet blender, or a mere seven slow cookers. She's very consistent you see.
It's brilliant because she would never produce a recipe that included, for example, an expensive bullet blender, or a mere seven slow cookers. She's very consistent you see.
She reminds me of someone I know who has learning difficulties. This person is generous but when she gives or buys you anything she as to remind you and tell everyone that she gave) bought you it.
For the most part I don't mind as it's her way, but i never say anything other then here you go when I buy/ stuff give stuff to people. I don't need the fanfare.
duck me the party never stops with her.
I use a cheap £1.50 from all supermarkets and I'm left handed.
My elderly neighbour uses an electric one.
Why is she soooooo boring?!
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Why would you ever in your life need to purchase (or be gifted, or find - it's all the same thing) FOURTEEN tin openers? As a freshly independent student I bought a Tesco Value one that broke on the first tin I tried to open so I bought a different one that was still under a fiver. That's two. It was a tin of Princes mandarins by the way, a very important detail if we're going to be forensic about it.
In my adult life I have had 2 tin openers. I am way older than her. The current one must be about 15 years old.
But she’s TIN CAN COOK don’t ya know?
I’m a lefty...... it’s the potato peelers that I can’t deal with!!I do struggle a bit - I'm left-handed and I feel wrong and awkward trying to use one.
I’m going to mentally add the cost of a tin opener to all her recipes from this day forward.
Surely the ring pull on a tin makes it more expensive, thus making non-ring pull tins cheaper and better for the poors?
And if someone is that poor, they absolutely deserve better than someone’s grubby second hand kitchen utensils. You would think Jack would remember that but she was so keen to get her campaign for Great British Poverty Champion 2021 off the ground, she overlooked it
You have to have the extra 50p in the first place makes a mockery of every costing she does where she includes a teaspoonful of something not sold by the teaspoon and why am I even arsed mate she is dreary
Opening cans is her one of her JOBS! probably schedules an hour in her workday for it
None of her makes sense.
It’s cos she has to have a bladdy answer for everything. She can’t just concede graciously and say, ‘Yep, thanks for pointing that out.’ The only time she does that is when people tell her how hard she has it. 🤍🤍🤍
Honestly the artist formerly and still currently known as @Silver Linings really outdid themself with that masterpiece of a Photoshop. I smile every time I post now when I see it
As if Jack's sharing some TED talk about being yourself even if it costs you work. YOU WRITE FOR THE DAILY EXPRESS...are you sure you want to imply that's the real you?!?
ETA: if I win the lottery I'm commissioning a (hopefully less violent) remake of the Shia lebouef song with "brexit tin thief Bubble Buddy" telling the tale from the perspective of a tin of del monte peaches
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Sorry for going back in time, but isn't it WILD (to borrow a Jackism) that someone who claims to be a dedicated behind the scenes grassroots anti poverty campaigner has to put out a tweet begging for someone to take her manky old cutlery? And she phrases it like she is doing them such a damn favour, rather than just offloading her old shite on to them.
Don't forget the Smeg fridge. Another essential.
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