Jack Monroe #155 What a sad little life, Jack

[Joan of Narc]

Sorry, I know this isn’t F&D, but what is the definitive butter pie thing recipe? I need to just see something.

I make my kids something I call cheese pie, but it’s basically just mash with a well in the middle, filled with baked beans, then the whole top covered in grated cheddar. I don’t think it’s a real thing, or am I accidentally doing a cultural chaos?

"Cultural chaos" I think butter pie is potato, onion and err butter? I don't know the recipe, just bung it all in, innit. Fact about butter pie.. they were invented for Catholic families who don't eat red meat on a Friday therefore wouldn't buy the usual meat and potato pie. My family is from a town where both butter and meat and potato pies are popular 🔺️. Anyway, hurry up Jack and do something.. anyone know when the next full moon is?

 

[ChickenPorridge]

Liking the 'English teacher' tweet is purely Jack trying to be down with the kids. That person whose tweets she keeps liking and responding to recently is 19. A teenager. Perhaps the up and coming Twitter-famous?

 

[cheapwetham]

If its reflective of my girls school/grammar days, they are just 3 of the many many reasons that may influence your (lack of) popularity and therefore be more likely to eat your lunch away from your peers. Apologies as this sounds like a sweeping statement and I'm sure that's not the case, just my personal experience!

Speaks the person who spent 5 years of her secondary school life being best mates with the librarian and eating lunch hiding in the library most days

 

[MaineCoonMama]

@cheapwetham I had the same thought!

 

[Fruitjack]

@traumatised sideboard from the last thread, but I grew up with butter pies , I’ve tried to do vegan versions and they’ve been ok but not entirely satisfactory. At some point when travel was allowed I saw there was a vegan place in Bolton that does them but Mr F said it was too far to go there just to get a butter pie and I’ve not forgiven him, but I have hope post lockdown that I can go.

 

[Cookiecookie]

My brother used to hang out in the staff room at Senior College. They had a bowl of lollies for the teachers and he'd help himself to daily. He wasn't bullied or anything, just enjoyed a ready supply of free sweets

 

[StringyMango]

One thing I'm surprised I haven't seen from Jack is synaesthesia. Right up her alley.

There are so many forms of it, it would be easy for her to fake, I have it and I can usually tell if someone is lying about it.

I taste some words and associate smells with words, eg. cat poo smells smart and Alan is a really oniony name.

I stopped talking about it pretty early on because I just got blank stares from everyone.

FFS Don't give her any ideas!!

 

[Harrybosch]

Actually, thinking back there was a module on who to eat lunch with when I was training.

And I always saw myself as Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds

Your earlier post makes me think you need to go on a refresher course.

#badteacher

 

[bladiesla]

You have to stop with this! You cannot simply take on the mantle of your father's career. My Dad is a doctor and I'm sure none of you ninnies want me examining any of your nooks and crannies...or rashes or ouchies or splinters. How many fires did you actually put out? Oh, that'll be a big fat zero. Grenfell and the repercussions should not be an opportunity for you to wave your "expert" flag to impress the squiggles. This definitely definitely isn't about you!

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Sorry, feeling quite vexed at the moment. Ate two boiled eggs - they weren't pie.

Also, everything about Grenfell is shocking and awfull. How unsafe cladding ended up on those buildings, the treatment of the victims (and the dispicable remarks from ghouls like Rees-Mogg), the delay in treating buildings with that cladding still on. Etc*. You really don't have to be an ex fire service person or the daughter of a fire fighter to despair at this.

(* In short, it's awfull because this government and the previous one really don't give a f*ck about people)

 

[Eurgh]

She’s gone full c1994 your mate meets someone out of the back of the paper lonely hearts, used to be in the SAS and or MI6 consequently they never go out any more, also they are broke as they appear to have acquired a freeloading fantasist. Camouflage items provided by the TA, whole thing turns out to be a load of tit (who’d have thought!?)

Oh you’ve met my ex?

 

[bladiesla]

I worked on an organic farm for three weeks when I was 15 and can't believe I've not put 'eco-agricultural specialist' in my Twitter bio yet

I mean, if she can claim to be an ex-foodbank user in her bio with just one visit (implied), I'm also an ex-roadie (helped a friend with the PA for a gig once), and ex-beautician (did my mum's eyebrows) and former event-coordinator (organised a charity concert few years back).

 

[DisgruntledGoat]

Urgh, what an opportunistic ghoul.

Imagine those cold, dead eyes on BBC Breakfast as she talks about the trauma she endured as a fire service worker, skilfully avoiding mention that she never left the call centre. It’s actually sickening. People died horribly and in the ham-fisted aftermath of government response people have lost everything, yet here she is pretending she can talk with authority about building regulations

 

[Cunderthunt]

Did Jack actually directly say that she only went to the food bank once? I was under the impression that this admission was inferred from Jack saying The Destitution ended when her parents discovered that she’d been at a food bank, and her wording implied that this was her first time there?

 

[waffle maker]

Did Jack actually directly say that she only went to the food bank once? I was under the impression that this admission was inferred from Jack saying The Destitution ended when her parents discovered that she’d been at a food bank, and her wording implied that this was her first time there?

Strongly implied in recent SEB podcast.

 

[bladiesla]

There is just no growth, right? I remember when I lived in Amsterdam, a local policitian who used to be a sex worker used those experiences in her political work. When she had to stop the latter for health reasons she became an author (she had already written a boook about her youth, but her later works were children's books). Particularly when she had stopped her politial work, she never let herself define by her (sex work) past, only when it informed her work directly. I did not always agree with her polictics and am not even a fan, but so different to JM who keeps defining herself by this one story from almost 10 years ago.

 

[waffle maker]

I worked on an organic farm for three weeks when I was 15 and can't believe I've not put 'eco-agricultural specialist' in my Twitter bio yet

I mean, if she can claim to be an ex-foodbank user in her bio with just one visit, I'm also an ex-roadie (helped a friend with the PA for a gig once), and ex-beautician (did my mum's eye brows) and former event-coordinator (organised a charity concert few years back).

I worked in a Wimpy while I was at school and a couple of summers while I was studying. Do I put cook or chef?

 

[Lanie]

I remember grenfell i was going through a stage of getting up stupidly early to watch the BBC news and it was on.

I think she's better leaving off to be honest. I'm sure there is plenty of current or more up to date fire department people working on it, never mind the surviving victims. I don't think her input is needed or what she could add to it

 

[MaineCoonMama]

I find her fascinating. That ex fire service in her bio is just bizarre. She knows that's not what she was doing. Another day, another grossly exaggerated story or event, not a clue how disrespectful it is.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

I worked in a Wimpy while I was at school and a couple of summers while I was studying. Do I put cook or chef?

I used to clean in a hospice. Am I Mrs Hinch?

 

[waffle maker]

I used to clean in a hospice. Am I Mrs Hinch?

Mate, if you worked in a hospice you are at the very least a nurse, if not a doctor.