Jack Monroe #140 This is not what Linda would have wanted

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Congratulations to @PoorPatrol for the words and @waffle maker for the nomination! 🎉 Your joint prize: you’ve got to eat those balls.

Recap of thread #139

1. She knitted herself a shredded wheat big enough to feed everyone.
2. Welcome to Jack’s spa, where you will be treated to a bath full of table salt and any kind of herb.
3. Another Linda McCartney meal - those balls are a sight for sore eyes.
4. She had an article in Vogue. I couldn’t help but wonder ... why.
5. Jack’s thrifty tip: save your ring pulls so you can hang your clothes on them. Far better than broom handles.
6. ‘I have ADHD, a self destruct button and a short attention span.’
7. More thrifty tips from Take-A-Break Jack.
8. Deadline looming for Cookbook 7 and is Jack working hard or hardly working?
9. Oh so Vegan Jack discovered rice milk.
10. Sunday vibes with a cat and unruly curtains.
For new joiners to the thread, here is @Passive_Aggressive_Lemon ‘s ‘Jack for Dummies’ post (edited to include updated info):

Thought it might be useful for new followers to have a post at the start of each thread with some info.
Limegoss article about Jack versus Jamie Oliver : https://limegoss.com/jack-monroe-jamie-oliver/

Thread #31 is the infamous one in which Jack turns up to talk to us directly. She makes her appearance on p. 17.

For anyone wanting to relive the glory days of her two-week stint on Daily Kitchen Live (DKL), have a grunk a through threads 2-9.

*** JACKISMS ***

Jack’s most oft-used reply to questions on recipe substitutions:

Yes, absolutely x

Some other favourite Jack quotes:

‘Babe, same’
‘I did a chaos’
‘My maverick brain’
‘My sad little face’
‘I’m BUSY’
‘I HOOTED / I am FIZZING’
‘I laughed up a lung’

** NEW **
‘Literally hella embarrassed AF’ about ‘Brexit and flip-flopping Covid flippancy’ and she ‘didn’t even vote for it’.

She likes to describe herself as ‘puppyishly honest and naively enthusiastic’

As of late November 2020, Jack conceded she is not poor, but living to a budget as she is saving for a forever home for her and SB.

*****

One of Jack’s followers once referred to Tattlers as sad hausfraus and Jack herself has likened us to a cabal. Therefore we have become the Cabal of Hausfraus™️. She also recently referred to us as ‘gossip mavens’ (so, we are gossip trusted experts). ** Recent additions to her terms of endearment for Tattle: conspiracy wankers, obsessive groups of completely unhinged bullies, bullying ninnies, and malign, vicious bullies **

To ‘GrunkaLunka’ your way through a thread means to catch up on posts. Named after a member who rather epically caught up on many threads in a short period of time (and is also a fearless pioneer of the space-time continuum. She really was here both Now and Then).

Jack once threatened to use her Liam Neeson skills to TRIANGULATE our whereabouts in order to intimidate us, so that’s what we mean by that. * She may also threaten to take us to court - do not be afraid, this is not the first time and it won’t be the last. *

Jack once sideboard modelled a Vivienne Westwood dress, seeming to infer that it’s what Viv would have wanted (as if she were dead), and then got snippy when corrected otherwise. There may be some ‘RIP Viv’ jokes (she is, of course, NOT dead)

We sometimes joke about being on Vladimir Putin’s bitcoin payroll list for being evil trolls.

During her stint on Daily Kitchen Live, Jack produced a godawful looking lasagne, with a thin white sauce that never thickened up, just disappeared. It was widely likened to ‘horse spunk’ - there may be some horse ‘spirit’ lasagne jokes.

Her last-uttered line to Matt Tebutt on DKL was: ‘Thank you so Matt much, Matt’, which made us all HOOT.

Jack ended a tweet that listed her (not unimpressive) four-and-a-half GCSE results (A*, A, B, B, C) with: ‘Now duck off’. We sometimes like to use this in our own posts for comedic effect. We are NOT telling other fraus to duck off, simply paying homage to Jack’s own genteel humour.

*Back in the mists of time, one funny frau used a Jimmy Nail ‘She’s Lying’ picture to illustrate their thoughts on one of Jack’s latest tales. @Alpha Beta thought it was Novak Djokovic, the cabal hooted and Novak Nail was born. You may see reference to Jimmy Nail, Novak Djokovic, or the combination of both: Novak Nail. All demonstrate that she’s lying.*

Also:
  • She grew up in a 5-bed (mortgaged/owned) house
  • She got a £4.5k Omega watch for her 21st birthday
  • Her dad's a bleeping LANDLORD (an oldy, but a goody)
  • Jack and Louisa are no longer in a relationship - in Jack’s words: ‘She [Louisa] left’.
  • ** NEW ** However, during Lockdown 2 (November 2020), a bubble buddy, ‘buddle’ (BB) came to stay with Jack. BB is pescatarian, cycles 200 miles a week, and works in London. Jack is teaching her to cook, while also using her as a figure of gentle ridicule. She cannot cook, she cannot iron, she cannot clean the television properly, she left the hose out and it got eaten by a fox, and she doesn’t know the difference between wet and dry ingredients.
  • Her record for staying off Twitter since the start of these threads is 114 hours and 47 minutes.
  • She is 90% vegan. The other 10% likes to nom nom on Five Guys burger and discounted chicken slices.
  • During her appearance on DKL, she was asked why some mince has a higher fat content. ‘It just does.’
  • The information held on her by Companies House has her year of birth WRONG. She was born in 1988, not 1978.
  • She recently claimed she found her Burberry scarf in a muddy puddle.

Use the pink link tab at the top of the thread to find Jack’s Tattle Wiki page, where you will find all episodes of Daily Kitchen Live.

We are terrible for going off on tangents and using too many gifs, so there is another thread where we don’t discuss JM but instead talk about biscuits and stuff. For good light relief when JM is doing too much chaos, come to the Food & Drink threads in Off Topic.

  • Lastly, but importantly, when submitting ideas for the next thread title, please use the words ‘thread title’, as it makes it easier to search. Just using the number won’t be enough. We also can’t have swears in the title, and try to hold off until around p. 40 for your suggestions, if possible. ThankYOU.
 
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I’m thankfully away from my copy of Veganish at the moment but I’m fairly sure she mentions rice milk in there. I can have a look tomorrow but if it’s there she was lying then or now
 
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Why does it bleeping bother me about how long that duvet cover has been on 🤢. Unless there's 3 of them 😳
 
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Has she noticed it's snowing yet?

Would have thought those achey Victorian bones would have given her a clue before she picked up her Kindle and phone to photograph the view of the pile of soul-suckingly worthy books she pulled out from under the bed to photograph last night.
 
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Has she noticed it's snowing yet?

Would have thought those achey Victorian bones would have given her a clue before she picked up her Kindle and phone to photograph the view of the pile of soul-suckingly worthy books she pulled out from under the bed to photograph last night.
The boy definitely not there then. He'd have informed her of snow, for sure!
 
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I can’t find a Jack recipe with rice milk with moderate googling. It’s not exactly a budget ingredient I guess. I hope she has paid her rent before buying milk alternatives in addition to the milkman milk....
 
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I can’t find a Jack recipe with rice milk with moderate googling. It’s not exactly a budget ingredient I guess. I hope she has paid her rent before buying milk alternatives in addition to the milkman milk....
Only thing I think it's fit for is Rice pudding. It's pleasant enough in itself, but it's incredibly sweet even when unsweetened and just tastes of, well - rice. Same way oat milk tastes of porridge (and chocolate oat milk tastes of chocolate Ready Brek). Pretty sure the cheapest (and Vegan) way to make chocolate porridge is to cook it in the pan with a wooden spoon handle (because I'm too cheap to buy a Spurtle) using water & stirring it to make it creamy, along with some Cocoa powder.
 
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I hope that this is not the run up to her 'discovering' how much cheaper it is to make your own plant milk. . Home made plant milks have been thin and liable to separate for me. Would prefer not to see blending rice and water to create a 'thick, creamy milk' presented as a recipe. Same for oats.
 
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I was looking at reviews of Veganish and it doesn't look as if Jack has learned anything since. Poor Adele 🙁
All I want now is for that guy Lubalin who sings Internet Dramas to sing this review in the style of “the” Adele!

 
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Garages get really bloody cold 🙁.

Regarding the savoury bread and butter pudding, a quick search brings up 100s. Maverick it ain't 🙄.

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My least favourite squiggles are the ones who will act like jack is some sort of prophet for doing something that is quite common in terms of food trends.
It’s reminding me of the carrot cake overnight oats which is a blatant slimming world rip off.

remind me fraus, what was the use for the leftover carrot water?
 
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