Jack Monroe #170 Outrageous grifting dirtbag

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Hugh FW, Anna Jones, Meera Sodha, Rukmini Iyer all come to mind instantly as omni food writers who would do an excellent job.

ETA although I can imagine they might all say no to the LM tie in.
Even the Hairy Bikers have done a couple of veggie books (a diet one and a regular one) which are much more appealing than Jack's stuff. They don't claim to be veggie, just that they like food, and appreciate a lot of folk like meat free options etc
 
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I think the Hairy Bikers would have been great in a Linda McCartney collab. They could have used the meat subs in many of their traditional dishes. They have a vegetarian book out with many vegan recipes, without claiming to be vegan themselves. I see that Richmond are branching out from sausages, and introducing mince and meatballs. Maybe they will ask the Hairy Bikers next year.
 
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Having meat free meals is a great idea, I want to learn more veggie recipes - if nothing else because high welfare meat and fish is very expensive. I feel like veganism is a way of life, not just a way of eating and she doesn’t get that. (Vegans may disagree - I’m not a vegan but very interested in expanding my cooking to include vegan recipes) I have a fussy eater at home anyway.
 
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I do too. They are just nice blokes who love food.

Jack is the complete opposite, she seems to despise cooking, she gets no joy out of it. If she took just half the energy she uses on her Twitter chaoses and focussed that into making TikTok style quick makes and budget cheats, and actually built a brand for herself, she could have been a success. The success she really seems to think she is now.
 
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Stacey was working in Luton Airport, in a bar I think? I saw her do a talk a few years back where she said she never had any qualifications, thought she'd just work in the airport forever. She got approached to do a tv show for the BBC when she was 18 or 19, that took young women who were super into fast fashion and took them to see sweat shops in India. She told the interviewer that the BBC just liked how interested she was and how she was a natural at just asking a question well and letting the other people open up to her.
 
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Veganism can be a way of life more than just a diet, but, that's down to the person. Jack was just outright offensive with her LM collab. It felt like she was sneering at the community.
 
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Yes, she could of if she had, as you say, any talent or interest. I don't think she is capable of producing interesting and useful quick makes and budget cheats, based on what I have seen her produce. I cringed when on the show with Grace Dent she was boasting about the fact that she did not know what she was doing and her books consisted of her sending info on her dinners to her publishers who then packaged them as books because they were SO BRILLIANT.(implication).
 
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This is the thing. Vegan is absolutely a way of life. Plant based eating is what the majority of people dip in and out of first.
Is your oil vegan? May not be extracted from an animal but did the production of it adversely effect an animal's habitat? May be a bad example but I think you get the idea.
Vegan vs plant based is very different.
 
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I know it's all gone quiet on the legal front...but I'll be buying my court outfit just in case.

 
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Veganism can be a way of life more than just a diet, but, that's down to the person. Jack was just outright offensive with her LM collab. It felt like she was sneering at the community.
I am still surprised LM accepted that weid curry with sausages dish. What the actual frig was that supposed to be? (Loved how people in the thread asked about the dumplings in the dish, haha).
 
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You forgot the bowls
 
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Every word out of that smol pixie's mouth is just a contradiction of words said before!!! I've seen the receipts on here of her rushing out and buying all the cookbooks in Waterstones, she's 'worked' in her ex's professional kitchen, and she has the Pepe Silva wall just FULL of recipes!!!

(I can't face sitting through the book talk video, I just can't )
 
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A friend of mine has worked with Stacey Dooley in the past.

She's more of a presenter than a journalist I guess (as a lot of the ground work has already been done by producers on her shows) but obviously she's talented enough to front said shows.

I imagine that's the bit that grinds Jack's gears, as she has no discernable talent to speak of and no warmth about her whatsoever.
 
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