Jack Monroe #151 A morally destitute and blatantly mendacious fraud?

[Silver Linings]

Doubt it.

 

[Veronicaaa]

In Jack's 'likes' #theirony

 

[emmer_moans]

I know some people work with paper spread out to help visualise something but the way those sheets of paper are pinned up covering the whole wall really looks more like a procrastination thing than anything else.

All that paperwork on the wall would make me feel claustrophobic in that room, as if the words are ready to shout out and leap at me. What's wrong with one checklist or a flip chart?

 

[Emmapism]

She seems to think that she's a mad creative who works best under the pressure of a looming deadline. If Robert Louis Stevenson could write Jekyll & Hyde in 2 weeks, why not R Jackie?

But...Jack, you're not producing art, you're creating a slop manual. There's obviously a market for overblown descriptions of food (Nigella), but people buy her books because they like the recipes first and foremost.

Your recipes should be reliable, well-written and well-tested, not "one and done, autism for the win" and then 10.000 words of What Tattle Got Wrong.

This book is going to be bleeping terrible. Jack, you're not a maverick, you're not an artist, you're just a bad cookbook writer with terrible organisation skills.

Now I've got 'bad cookbook writeerrrr' to the tune of Smooth Operator circling around my head.

Whhyyyyyy

 

[Cookiecookie]

She fair likes to trowel her make up on doesn't she?

 

[kachoochoo]

when isn't she going through personal hell?

 

[Emmapism]

Also the last couple of pages.....come on roll eyes post response. We need you now more than ever!

 

[Harrybosch]

when isn't she going through personal hell?

Hope you have added 'story about maple syrup' to the list.

 

[Pocahontas]

She fair likes to trowel her make up on doesn't she?

She’s got a lot to use up

 

[Veronicaaa]

She’s got a lot to use up

Yeah, not all at once though, Jack!

 

[holliebollie]

I think she makes a song and dance about being disorganised on purpose. Those potential employers DO see it, swear they’ll never work with her, then she can blame her severe ADHD on not being offered work. “No one wants to hire ME, a severely autistic, ADHD addled tattooed lesbian, look how I’m being discriminated against! They see how my maverick brain works and they don’t want to know...” type bollocks. This only works for companies who don’t have a work experience child in doing the collab deals.

Her red carpet gumpf. Oh my god. David Brent is back. That snarl... that hair! I’m a tiny bit older than Jack and would have sued the hairdresser if I had come out looking like that. Actually looks like my Nanny’s hair. She is SEVERELY old though.

 

[kachoochoo]

Hope you have added 'story about maple syrup' to the list.

of course

 

[Lanie]

Yeah, she’d claim Northern Irish is her first: it’s definitely not Greek.

Erm, northern Irish isn't a language. My 5 year old asked me to do I speak that when I am at home. I had to explain we speak the queens English. She really Is a trumpet.

 

[Tittykitty]

Bbc breakfast are running a piece about the effects of long COVID, how many days until she remembers........?

 

[hollowhusk]

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My mum was friends with an ageing hippy once and when he came round for dinner he would make himself lentil and egg curry, I seem to remember it was pretty nice!

 

[Fruitjack]

Cinnamon granola does sounds delicious but if it’s the same as her other granolas it will be oats in cheap oil which don’t get crunchy and suggests 2 tbsps is a suitable portion size.

 

[Cookiecookie]

Cinnamon granola does sounds delicious but if it’s the same as her other granolas it will be oats in cheap oil which don’t get crunchy and suggests 2 tbsps is a suitable portion size.

Yeah, I've found that with her granola recipes. It's not that they taste unpleasant, but they're definitely not granola.

 

[MooBelle]

@Marmalade Atkins It’s a relief to us all you figured out where the War Room is!

This is what her writing space looked like in September 2018, via instagram....


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That's her old place. She moved into the crappy bungalow Feb/March 2019.
(apologies if already mentioned)

 

[I steal names]

when isn't she going through personal hell?

It's constant, isn't it? Her family and friends must get totally fed up with her. I've known people like it, and they end up pissing off everyone around them.

 

[Fruitjack]

Yeah, I've found that with her granola recipes. It's not that they taste unpleasant, but they're definitely not granola.

I’ve made the peanut butter and jam one a few times because people keep giving me jam and I never really know what to do with it. It ends up tasting like a cheap flapjack, as you say, not unpleasant but nothing like granola.