I wonder if they Wikipedia-ed her and caught sight of “MBE” on the page (her Dad’s)?
Either way, can’t imagine she’ll be rushing to correct them. She prob won’t feel as strongly about as she does when she gets called a “chef”.
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Either way, can’t imagine she’ll be rushing to correct them. She prob won’t feel as strongly about as she does when she gets called a “chef”.
Oi i had to google quick to see if this fool actually had an MBE. I swear she'd get it tattooed on her head if she did. Loves a claim to fame.
Also, robots lot need to grow tf up.
Also, robots lot need to grow tf up.
I hadn't even seen your post when I typed it so it wasn't a dig!
Tonnes of the East ones are in her columns online. I've made absolutely loads from it or the ones online that aren't in the book. I really recommend her.
She's eked out her origin story into about six books, a tv series and a film so far without even a flimsy pretext like cooking to conceal it - she must be Jack's hero.
Yes.With Jack I don't think it's the fact she's not vegan or veggie that's making people angry but it's the way she jumped on veganism when it was having a bit of a moment only to dump it later. If she's been upfront from the start and said she wasn't vegan but enjoyed vegan cooking or was looking to cut back on meat there might be have been a bit of grumbling from the more purist online vegans but it wouldn't have gained any traction. It's partly the dishonesty and being taken for mugs by a bandwagon jumper that's the issue. That the recipes themselves look foul and almost no effort has been made just adds insult to injury.
I actually have a quote from a Tattle member on the Caitlin Moran thread saved in my phone
"I think of Caitlin Moran as my gateway drug to feminism, like BodyPump is to powerlifting. The minute you read any actual feminist theory you realise what a daft cow she actually is."
As someone active in both those topics it made me hoot but also think about the fact that about 10 years ago I was a complete Moran fangirl.
But yes, total parallels of rehashing background between Monroe and Moran are just hilarious, but don't give Jack ideas...soon her dad will also have bred border collies.
The floofle might be someone else’s IP, Jack and the robot bloke need to be careful. My kid has a lot of “how to draw cute cartoon characters” type books, they basically teach you how to copy the pictures in them. The style of the thing and the way SB drew it, pencil first then gone over in pen, look exactly like the pictures my kid produces using those books. Fine for a child’s drawing you stick on the fridge, not so great if an adult is claiming it as an original design.
I wonder if it is a tactic with Jack re sponsorship with companies. Do the bare minimum at the beginning of the campaign, and do even that in a half arsed fashion, then sort of by mutual consent the project is very quietly dropped and forgotten. Meanwhile emails from the company consistently ignored while Jack on twitter does a performative 'illness'. Company feels they can't pursue it.
Not to turn this into a Caitlin Moran thread but, my Christ, does she get on my nerves. Wheels out and recycles the same origin story time and time again. Talks about being working class and over-romanticises eating cheese off of a stick as a child from the comfort of her massive house in Crouch End knowing that living in poverty (for her and her immediate family) is a reality which exists in a parallel universe.
Definitely. Plus Jack repeatedly telling them that because she's such a loud mouth leftie tattooed working class lezzer (her words but not verbatim) they will get criticism and negative comments. But such messages are only from trolls. It has nothing to do with the quality of her work. And the fact that a watery floating brown sausage stew with glistening kidney beans is boke worthy.
I was poking about Linda McCarney's socials and I noticed there seems to be a lot of love for her duck substitute, even from meat eaters. I haven't tried it or actual duck so I can't comment on that but I do think that if Jack sloppifies it, there will be real world consequences from enraged faux duck fans. I am therefore praying that Jack tackles duck next and calls it something abysmal like Softy Softy No Quacko Tacos but it's just a big bowl of brown slop.
I’ll add my bit of Caitlin Moran derail then shut up. I’m about the same age as her, I remember reading her first newspaper columns which were written when she was in her teens and thinking what an interesting life she’d had compared to mine, and feeling both a bit dull and a bit jealous of her success. I never religiously followed her stuff, but came across it every so often and I swear every single thing I’ve read or seen by her is a rehash of her origin story. Every. Single. Thing. All that’s missing is the musical and the theme park ride version, and I’m sure she’s working on that.
Hmmm. I would probably put Caitlin Moran’s origin story half way between Jade Goody and Jack Monroe. She’s no SlumDog Millionaire.
Pahahahaha I think this was me
Not necessarily a Caitlin Moran fan but I do like her writing and she does make me laugh. So even if her 'origin story' is exaggerated like Jack's, at least she actually has a talent and some personality.
Jack has no redeeming features which is why she's chasing the kind of success that people like Caitlin have had.
Jack has no redeeming features which is why she's chasing the kind of success that people like Caitlin have had.
I think that is what has happened with Del Monte.
Only 3 posts, very few likes. Latest pic doesn't even mention Jack.
I can absolutely verify the loveliness of the LM fake duck!!! Her hoisin pancake kit is a favourite in our house of carnivores!
Caitlin can definitely write. And I think her particular brand of feminism is fine if you read it as though you’re a 15 year old. And nothing wrong with that.
She does come across a tad smug though.
CM and her egregious dickheadedness is a hill I've been dying on for 28 years now. Two cheeks of the same arse, her and Monroe.
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