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

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Agreed, I’m surprised no vegans have called her out. Some can be a brutal lot online and attack YouTubers who just attempted veganism and didn’t try to profit from it

Vegan(ish) was released less than 5 months ago and her new non-vegan cookbook is due for release next week. She really did not give a tit about veganism
Oddly enough I think how vocal vegans can be helped her because it fired up her followers to be just as if not more vociferous in return. She seems to do very well under extreme pressure like that - she goes into keyboard warrior defence mode and loves angrily talking about herself. If that fails revert to something something mental health something trolls something privilege. She knows the buttons the press.

It’s also why these threads confound her - her shadiness being exposed brick by brick is not anything she can counter with angry word salad.
 
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I genuinely think about her overflowing bin on DKL every time her kitchen is mentioned. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

(oops this was supposed to be a reply to a post about her scarf being in the shot of food) Monday morning fail.
 
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I personally think her books will start tanking. More people are bored. She lost a big opportunity in lockdown, when people were adapting, making lock down food - even bloody doing tins, just miles and miles better she was doing what? Having a tantrum weeks in because JO was employed by his employer??

She had a weird presenting 2 weeks where she had no distinguishable feature, she can guard the comments but its quite obvious she (allegedly) hasn't been asked back.

There is only so many times you can put various different pensioner foods out there for people to give a tit. These people on twitter - might buy her book I guess, but I'm not sure she will be getting the old levels of success.
I think Jacks people are twigging onto the fact after watching DK there is a plethora of good decent chefs who provide good, tantalising recipes, for not a lot of money. Don't sue me but I think this book will flop, if only for the word depressipes. Hence a fundraiser will magically appear encouraging people to buy her book for a MH agency, charity, or for the food bank. Just my opinion, nothing more.

Although this one did make me laugh. Louis, sweetheart, you might as well chuck in chopped burnt tyre rubber and spit on it; it won't make a difference at this stage.
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We must hope that associating herself with deceased chefs who can't sue doesn't become a trend. What next 'My nod to Michel Roux's Soufflé Suissesse'?
Maybe this will be the theme of her next book? Just recipes dedicated to deceased chefs?
 
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Maybe this will be the theme of her next book? Just recipes dedicated to deceased chefs?
I'm worried that the theme is going to be food which doubles as hats. Pancake Panama. Tartiflette Trilby. Cheesy Mash Cloche à la Robuchon.
And the flagship recipe - THE GREASY PHILIP TREACY! This could be a giant rubbery poached egg atop a Portobello mushroom.
All can be made in advance and put on your head so that if you suddenly feel depressipied and need to take to your bed, you can just reach up et voilà - handy self-love snack right there!
 
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and here:

Oddly alike no?
 
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I grow weary now. Bring on the apocalypse.

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Although this one did make me laugh. Louis, sweetheart, you might as well chuck in chopped burnt tyre rubber and spit on it; it won't make a difference at this stage.

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As others have said, the Bourdain thing - wow. A bad-taste insult to his talent and his memory. If she dares to frame this monstrosity in her book as a depressipe tribute to him, I will be writing to her publisher.
I don’t get what these people are seeing. It looks utterly disgusting, the eggs look rock solid, and is that mashed potato underneath?
 
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The spaghetti hoops would be mush.... Just buy a bag of dried pasta and save the hoops for something else (and actually use the sauce on them!"
It's basically 'heat up a tin of spaghetti hoops in the microwave. Add cheese and black pepper'. I've got the giggles so bad.

Meanwhile, with this one - wouldn't it be a whole lot less hassle just to do it in a pan, rather than hauling it in and out of the microwave every couple of minutes?? https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/...k-monroe-cooking-on-a-bootstrap-recipe-chilli
 
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Grrrrr

Reading this has made me mad. She spends paragraphs talking about how therapy has changed her life, and improved her relationship with herself. Then offers to the poor people (the non-multi-deal-cookbook-authors like us!) the sage advice of here, eat this, it does something. Eat that, it does something else!

Seriously, duck you Jack Monroe.

I've desperately Googled years ago all of the foods I could eat that could nip away at the endless black hole of depression I had fallen into. The fundamental issue when you have depression however is the complete and overwhelming apathy to absolutely everything... Including your own health, mental or otherwise. If it were so easy to change or improve our depression or episodes with changing diet, then I am sure many of us would have happily already jumped on to that bandwagon.

The truth is, this is something *she* can sell to us, because food is her thing. The truth is, the vast majority of people in the UK cannot get free access to counselling via the NHS, and therefore the real thing that has helped her, is out of reach for many of us.

Eating a bit of spinach and a banana a day hasn't helped with her mental health. It's having her (THREE!) therapists on hand when she's having a wobbly moment. It's having somewhere, and someone to talk to, and guide you through those moments.

It's entirely deceitful for her to pretend otherwise.
 
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Fellow Bourdain lovers. Parts unknown is coming to Netflix in June
All of them. Rejoice, rejoice.
I’m here for crisps on things. I’ve done Cheetos and Doritos as breadcrumbs in chicken. Spicy Cheetos on Mac and cheese. Mainly ‘dirty’ food. (Hate that expression but you know what I mean). And you cannot beat a roll and crisps. Yummmmmy. Don’t think I’d have them with eggs mind.

Back to the task at hand. Those potatoes are actually Joël Robochon’s. Anthony done a take of them for food and wine magazine.
This is the useless information I retain.

Tony hated celebrity chefs. He hated the commercialism if the food industry and was quite scathing of people like Rachel Ray. Doubt he would have taken to someone with no kitchen experience and a bullshit persona championing themselves as cook of the people. He’d of seen through her in a min.
That’s not to say he was a twit to everyone. Tony was a real champion of chefs and spoke regularly of those he admired.

It’s like she’s plucked his name out because of his battles with addiction (he went from heroin to work. He was definitely addicted to work) and ultimately his death by suicide. It’s crass and insulting to his memory to tie him to her new book.
I can confirm that the only place for crisps in cooking is in a white bread roll .
Butter both halves then cheap cheese slice, crisps, coleslaw and a bit of black pepper if you want to be fancy. Has to be in that order, you get the soggyness of the coleslaw followed by crunchiness of the crisps and then the chewyiness of the cheese.
Yesterday my husband made me one in the wrong order, so I had to eat it upside down (the roll, not me).

Free recipe ,- you're welcome!
 
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