Jack Monroe #16 Queen of the freezer, bathtime teaser & blue tick pleaser

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Thats because JM is a beggy leech and what shes doing is leaching off food banks, not supporting them with her profit orientated books filled with digusting, wasteful recipes. And heres a shot of my gorgeous dog for her printer. Edited to take out all the other pictures i added by accident
 

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My husband finds it interesting that Quack doesn't provide any nutritional information for her recipes. Had a look thru a few of my cook books just now and they all have it.
 
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Ouch I hope you can get it sorted!

You have my sympathy, as a fellow tooth grinder. I have a very sexy mouthguard thing to wear at night, because I'd worn them to the point of needing fillings.
 
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yehthe only time ive seen her mention food banks was a bragging tweet to the food bank in question stating how much she'd given with a receipt
There is a very old picture (before the receipt one) kicking around of bags and bags of Sainsburys bags at a food bank with the name Monroe on it. It was a tasteless thing to do, even more, tasteless to see.
 
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While I don't doubt that she's telling some porkies, I have a really long and varied CV at 26 that includes working in taxation, finance, international relations, data analysis, legal and retail. The difference is,nearly all my jobs were short term contracts of between 3 months to a year and I worked full time while I was in uni. I've sat in interviews and I have them ask was my CV out of date (because I was working full time while studying for an undergraduate degree) or that my experience didn't match my age. So it does happen that someone can have a lot of different jobs but that requires a little more grit than what Jack has
 
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I'm confused... Where's the narky sense of entitlement? The contempt and disregard for her followers? Not even a hard done by speech?? Most strange. Are you quite sure she's got this Patreon lark right?
 
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MFK Fisher’s food writing is lovely. She was an American who lived in France.

Podcasts - have been enjoying the Louis Theroux lockdown one, and Attaboy Clarence which looks at old Hollywood movies.

@Breakdance Badass - so sorry about your tooth.
 
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Oh I know, I had quite a few short term temp jobs in my early twenties! It's just that I think she's... let's say embellishing her CV somewhat.
 
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This is amazing! It made me a little bit emotional
 
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You're a bit of a superstar, you know that, right?
 
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Jack is so ridiculous. She preaches a middle class idea of what she thinks poor people should be grateful to eat - joyless, tasteless slop in other words
This is so true! The only reason she hasn’t been rumbled for this over the years is because the liberal elite in the media who gave her a platform did so not because they actually rated her as a cook but because they subconsciously agreed that poor people should be grateful for joyless slop.

I think championing a “poor person” like Jack made them (The Guardian, Nigella, Fortnum & Mason etc) feel good about themselves. Look at us! Being all inclusive and shit!

And she was the acceptable face of poverty too - a lefty lesbian single mother of one, not one of those stupid feckless underclass single mother types. There’s no way someone with that profile would have got themselves a platform like Jack did.
 
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I have woken in a foul mood, after realising I was grinding my teeth so badly I have chipped a huge piece off my front tooth.

Oh Badass, sorry for your trouble. But if it helps and you need bowls of slop to reduce any more impact on your teeth, I can recommend some books. Possibly a website. You will be expected to tip the “chef”, though x
 
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And she was the acceptable face of poverty too - a lefty lesbian single mother of one, not one of those stupid feckless underclass single mother types. There’s no way someone with that profile would have got themselves a platform like Jack did.
this is super interesting and tbh a dissertation could be written on it. Agreed completely. I actually think the fact she is MC and fell upon hard times and it could happen to any one of us!!! Is a huge part of her schtick. This is why I’d also love for her to open up her platform to feature the “unacceptable” faces of poverty - first gen immigrants, BAME individuals, women with regional accents tbh , disabled women, older women, etc etc.

Tbh even women from up north not that that’s a marginalised identity - but London/wider SE benefits from the disproportionate investment in infrastructure & particularly the arts. I grew up poor but still had access to the best museums and galleries in the country for free, and my travel to get there was free. Our school always got free trips to plays. We had talks and workshop days hosted by authors and poets just cos they lived local? We got to go to these mad science talks in a posh old building in Greenwich park too. Lived in bus distance of 3 good libraries I could study for my GCSEs in & use computers at. If you’re poor in Birmingham you don’t have any of that shit at all??

It’s like because she dipped her toe into poverty in adulthood she misses so much of the bigger picture and isn’t opening her eyes to it... I’m sure I’ll get done in court for this blasphemy x
 
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Wow this is wonderful. Don’t worry about not having been in education for a while. You’ll soon get the hang. Don’t doubt yourself. There are plenty of people pretending their way in jobs they aren’t up to so don’t have any worries. Small steps and you’ll soon be in the swing I’m sure. Good luck
 
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wanksplat would be a great user name.
 
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Thank you for all you’re lovely words. It’s a shame we won’t get our day in court to meet and eat some food with texture.
 
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Jack Monroe #17 - The toe bone's connected to the 47 foot bones - The 47 foot bones connected to the ankle bone …..
 
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