Jack Monroe #145 Mamapapa, why is all the food brown?

[EllaEm87]

I also have LEFT () and have to buy my soup vegetables separate and chop them up like some kind of animal instead of just buying a bag of them done already. I actually just make shitey insta-mash for mine because it's not like it matters when it's in a soup



This actually reminds me that at some point back in these threads (maybe during a letdown larder?) Jack didn't know what to do with a packet of the dried soup mix you use in this soup.

NI veg soup (soup barley, soup celery and the rest) is such basic cooking. Pretty sure I learnt the recipe off my mum at a young age as I’ve been bunging it all together for years. Even go so far as to use the left over chicken bones from a Sunday roast to make my own stock. The potato lump is definitely an NI thing. But HOW can she not know how to use soup mix? It’s like.... on the packet?! Did her NORTHERN IRISH BAPTIST IMMIGRANT MOTHER TEACH HER NOTHING??

 

[Duckypoo]

NI veg soup (soup barley, soup celery and the rest) is such basic cooking. Pretty sure I learnt the recipe off my mum at a young age as I’ve been bunging it all together for years. Even go so far as to use the left over chicken bones from a Sunday roast to make my own stock. The potato lump is definitely an NI thing. But HOW can she not know how to use soup mix? It’s like.... on the packet?! Did her NORTHERN IRISH BAPTIST IMMIGRANT MOTHER TEACH HER NOTHING??

Even I know, and use, soup mix. I'm a home counties lefty lib too... Without the benefits of her immigrant lineage.

 

[Sideboard Bob]

@Sideboard Bob if you don't buy oldchiefquotes.coven.de I'm going to riot. Do you want me to end up in onion prison?

I’m only half joking when I say I don‘t think I could handle the power and responsibility that comes with owning a whole website so... I guess you better work on your a-peel? 🧅

 

[Emmapism]

I've been pondering the Ruby Rose thing for a while and was thinking about it again when everyone was sharing their favourite Jack lies a few threads back. Whilst it's not the funniest or most outrageous lie she's told the whole "I once stood in on set for Ruby Rose"* is probably one of my favourite examples of a Jack lie. I think it's because a lot of the lies she tells we don't have evidence of what actually happened. It could have been a long time ago or a private incident that she is retelling. We rightly presume that they are small truths that have been massively embellished. With this one we have the evidence of what actually happened. So "I once stood in for Ruby Rose on set" turns out, in truth, to be that Jack was actually a background artist in a pretty low key music video, which was set in a prison, loosely based on a television show that Ruby Rose starred in. It's just ridiculous how she managed to spin that out so much. And unashamedly tweet that when the evidence is available for all to see.

I've been doubting the origin story even more since Christmas. There are so many inconsistencies and things that just sound wrong. I don't believe anything she says. I think if you read everything she says through the "Ruby Rose lens" you start to get a clearer picture of how she can take something inconsequential and spin it out of all proportion.

*The tweet has long since been deleted so I can't find the exact wording she used but I'm pretty sure this was it. I think the tweet was linked into the threads rather than screenshot so can't find it now.

Yesssssss! She lies so much we suspect she's lying about everything. But the lies always have enough truth in them that its something she could backpedal on if she was really cornered. Then again, tweet and delete. Tweet and delete.

 

[ChickenPorridge]

'Out of office' made me hoot as well. She always tries to make herself sound so professional, like when her site went down and she assured everyone she had her 'IT guy on it', when in reality it was her shakily trying to fix it while receiving a few texts from some random guy off Twitter

 

[hollowhusk]

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I absolutely loved maths at school but can't see how anyone needs PT in their everyday life. I mean I can use long division in my head to work out how much things cost or something but I have never needed to know how to work out the angle of a triangle.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

Here's one of those posts from the future.

I think I can see pineapple so she might be editing a Del Monte photo?

 

[Cookiecookie]

Here's one of those posts from the future.

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I think I can see pineapple, so she might be editing a Del Monte photo.

Looks gross. Guessing some type of curried monstrosity. Looks like black beans, but the rest looks, well, unpleasant to say the least (or rather I'd prefer not to think about it in case it puts me off my food for the rest of the day!)

 

[Missmopps]

Jack's a bit quiet today so here from the archives:

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Top to bottom:

Slop with exploded cherry tomato (that looks like unruly labia)
Classic slop
A bowl of black pepper with a slop garnish

Which one would YOU choose?

It’s late and I’ve had wine but I read that as I was swilling mouthwash and I almost choked on it! So funny yet tragic.

 

[Scarletfever]

Here's one of those posts from the future.

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I think I can see pineapple so she might be editing a Del Monte photo?

But but but pineapple wasn't a poll option?

How undemocratic of her.

It's almost as if the poll was nothing other than a desperate bid to buy time.

 

[xoxo]

Who the duck is nicking her recipes and passing off as their own? The onion?

Or was she on BBC good food forgetting she nicked from there in the first place!

Del Monte apparently nicked her peach curry recipe ages ago, and that’s part of the reason we were surprised by them partnering with her. Obvs her tweets about it have gone but there’s plenty of trails left behind.

check out the comments on here... I’m so shocked they worked with her after this

 

[Marj24]

"A peach chickpea curry is minging but I hope you get your due from them" haha! Wise words

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Del Monte apparently nicked her peach curry recipe ages ago, and that’s part of the reason we were surprised by them partnering with her. Obvs her tweets about it have gone but there’s plenty of trails left behind.


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check out the comments on here... I’m so shocked they worked with her after this

“The man from Del Monte can duck off” has made me laugh way more than it should. Anyone else think the Del Monte people hear that a LOT?

 

[Pixieboots]

Here's one of those posts from the future.

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I think I can see pineapple so she might be editing a Del Monte photo?

Well it's not all brown, I'll give her that.

 

[Marj24]

Just to add am a lover of the chick pea curry. Have made veg and chick pea curries, hummus, roasted chick peas, veg tagine etc. Tinned peaches, ok with Greek yogurt and black grapes!

 

[BlendedSlop]

Here's one of those posts from the future.

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I think I can see pineapple so she might be editing a Del Monte photo?

At first glance I thought this looked unusually textured (yet still unappetising)...then I noticed the image is cropped and whatever grotesque concoction she's made from tinned pineapple is sitting (gently, softly, mindfully) in the usual mire of slop.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

 

[xoxo]

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again, she’s made out like he’s there 24/7 by using her weasel words.

I think ‘marginally over deadline,’ as featured in one of her tweets from earlier, needs to be in the next thread name.

 

[Flash123]

NI veg soup (soup barley, soup celery and the rest) is such basic cooking. Pretty sure I learnt the recipe off my mum at a young age as I’ve been bunging it all together for years. Even go so far as to use the left over chicken bones from a Sunday roast to make my own stock. The potato lump is definitely an NI thing. But HOW can she not know how to use soup mix? It’s like.... on the packet?! Did her NORTHERN IRISH BAPTIST IMMIGRANT MOTHER TEACH HER NOTHING??

I love how the immigrant thing finally gives us white NI girls the special status we were waiting for jack needs to catch a bleeping grip!

 

[PoorPatrol]

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Hi Jack! Thanks for reading, hun