Jack Monroe #136 We lived in a house, it had a roof

[squiffle]

And that’s just the people who have tried to follow her bleeping awful recipes.

 

[lalalanded]

And they didn't need some Twitter Tosspot to pay five figure sums to - they just did it as normal.

(Qualifier for that statement: yes, they do use some slebs in their food advertising, but at least they're ones known for actually achieving something other than wailing about being poor on the internet).

It's blatantly obvious that they have strict criteria for any celebrities they work with............... having said that didn't they hire MOD? Well, we all have to live with our mistakes.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

I still like my earlier suggestion of Bootstrap Crook...

Me too! Did someone say that wasn’t long enough? Maybe we could merge both suggestions and have “NarcLife by Bootstrap Crook”

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

Can we not just use ‘has anyone seen Jack and Rose West in the same room?’ As a thread title?

 

[kachoochoo]

Are they trolling her??

with fresh vegetables going into a hot pan? yes, absolutely x

 

[Aeiouabc]

Can we not just use ‘has anyone seen Jack and Rose West in the same room?’ As a thread title?

DEAD!

 

[LyraBalaqua]

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And that’s just the people who have tried to follow her bleeping awful recipes.

Has her hair been toned down for this picture?

 

[Minky McMoneypenny]

I'm in my mid 50s, and as far as I know there's never been any stigma around tinned tomatoes, but I've been working class all my life, as have all the generations before me. Maybe it's just in Jack's world that they were stigmatised, as she was used to softly, lovingly, peeling fresh plum tomatoes, bought fresh from the farmers market, and carried home carefully so as not to bruise their delicate flesh. Me? I bought the cheapest tinned ones I could find, and still do.

Late to the party, but tinned toms are an ingredient in their own right. A fresh tomato on its own brings nothing to a ragu. The snobbery around tinned toms is not fresh vs tinned, it's value brand vs napolina vs San Marzano specialist

 

[Jelly Bean]

Off topic - Before we get a new thread - just to say to @Captainmouse I find Picuki (Pikuki? Can't remember) more reliable than Gramho.
Back on topic - Jack can't cook.

 

[HotesTilaire]

All the squiggles, so many squiggles....narclife!
I had been trying to see what her earring looked like for ages. It’s always strangely blurred and poorly defined in her usual selfies

 

[Blurp]

just watched Mackie on Iplayer, at the start you can see how nervous she is with her hands and the coffee mug to be fair she didnt do too badly but one point I genuinely didnt get her bit about there once being a stigma to tinned tomatoes and now it being acceptable, was this ever thus ? new to me ?

Bollocks. I went to a genuinely posh boarding school and one of the favourite meals was meatballs with tinned tomatoes. We'd have killed for meals like the ones shown earlier for private schools as ours were terrible, greasy spam fritters, lumpy mash and all.

She's talking through her arse again.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

Apols to all - I’m guilty of saying JM not Jack and acronyms are confusing!

I think JM is fine as we all know it's Jack. But now we've got a string of other cast members, maybe we should get in the habit of using proper names, to avoid confusion?

 

[Tabitha D]

So the curry recipe still looks like this:

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I'm going to guess that this collaboration was not dreamed up on the 1st of January. In fact, I know it wasn't, because she was tweeting nonsense about the pastitsio in December. Nevertheless, she's left it to the last minute, hasn't finished, and has made excuses.

So Linda McCartney have spent god knows how much for tit recipes, a slapdash job that she hasn't bothered finishing because she's too busy, work that has not been proofread and is riddled with errors (bechemal, mozarella, pasta/passata, chickpeas)...and to top it all they've enraged their key audience of angry vegans.

Money well spent!

That “curry” really does look foul - just grey/brown and claggy looking. It doesn’t exactly show off the sausages either. As another poster pointed out, the portion is teeny (look at the size of the kidney beans relative to the bowl). And I can’t believe a single person would look at that and think “yum, I must try that!”.
And the recipe itself is a cack-handed cut & paste job from an existing recipe which she’s then not bothered to proofread.
Linda McC must be delighted!

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

I think JM is fine as we all know it's Jack. But now we've got a string of other cast members, maybe we should get in the habit of using proper names, to avoid confusion?

I've always said JM cos it feels weird calling her Jack. Almost too familiar or something.

 

[Oofadoofa]

I've always said JM cos it feels weird calling her Jack. Almost too familiar or something.

Totally agree, and is why Monroe seems to be the sweet spot for me..

 

[Tabitha D]

Who is so weird that they'd take a photo of someone sleeping rather than covering them with a blanket, closing the curtains, and shutting the door to give them peace?

Exactly. And photographing someone while they’re sleeping is without their consent, for a start. Straying into creepy territory.

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

Totally agree, and is why Monroe seems to be the sweet spot for me..

Good idea. I'll try it! Let's see what that grifter Monroe gets up to next...

 

[Pixieboots]

New thread!

Jack Monroe #137 NarcLife by Bootstrap Crook

Thanks to @colouredlines, @SoulRebel and @jenny2603 for the title components! Edit: And now @CabalofBolorneaise too! Mods changed the thread title 🤷‍♀️ In our last thread... - Jack told the Guardian that The Letter was a bit tit really - Letter-writing campaigns are only good when Jack...

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