Jack Monroe #182 Extraneous brine

[MancBee]

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That's my question answered. Back in treatment it is then.

 

[bladiesla]

I don't like cereal at all, but I would enjoy honey nut icecream I think (I used to like the Ritter bar with cornflakes)

Jack's receipes weren't the worst when she had Alegra helping her, or when there is a proper team that edits/adapts the recipes. Post-Alegra it has gone downhill as she doesn;t graps basic cooking chemistry, and the combinations she presents us with are often just bizarre, like LM sausages in a curry, don't work, or miss ingredients to give it flavour.

Jack cannot be involved in anything without talking about how much work it is. “3am wake up call”, “14 hour days”, “100 hour working weeks” FFS. Honestly these opportunities are so wasted on her.

Ricky Gervais is not my favourite brand of strawberry jam, but I do like how when people say he works so hard he's like 'nah, my dad was a larborer, he worked hard and for little money, we should not complain about our hard work, it's embarassing' (I am paraphrasing as I'm too lazy to look for the exact quotes). It's embarassing how much she moans about having to do work, and it's embarassing that she calls tweeting about her shit (literally) work.

 

[Rosalillyrags]

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Took her longer to tweet that than RT Markus and Tom

 

[waffle maker]

 

[Whaa?]

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I think there is a middle class demographic who have picked up on her from the Guardian.
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I think that these are mainly the people who think Jacks recipes are wonderful for other people

 

[bowiethesdmn]

Jack, if you're reading this (you are), the constant references to 'treatment' are scummy as fuck because you know full well what it implies.

Waiting for a squiggle or two to go full on 'oh god I hope you don't have anything terminal please let me send you my wages' publicly for her to finally have to back down, back-pedal, and stop cosplaying serious illness. In fact, did this not happen with someone she knows IRL when the allusions to serious treatment started and she had to be like 'oh not that bad actually'?

Anyway she's made an absolute cunt of herself in a public forum and I can't imagine anyone wanting to work with her on poverty-porn for a while now, or anyone wanting her to find out about their own work lest she adhere herself to it in that limpet-like way she does. Although I'm not entirely sure stuff like that doesn't have some advantage to its host, so I'll go with 'shit on a shoe' instead

 

[Emmapism]

Tom Kerridge 'consulted' with Jack in the same way she's 'developing ideas' with the webisode/TV company she worked with recently.

'Yeah be great to work with you again'
'Thanks for reaching out Jack, sure shoot me over an email with any thoughts you have'

 

[HotesTilaire]

So far in the Squigiverse we have -

BLM Squiggle
Today’s hero Squiggle (needs a nickname I feel)
This is in addition to
ICO squiggle
Trifle defender
27k viggle
21k viggle
NotJack of Insta
Fedorabot/ M’ladybot
GoHenry Squiggle (thanks to @LavaFlake for reminding me!!!)

 

[Orphan_Black]

Honesty, major phew moment with other Fraus getting the same creepy copying!!!

Spoiler: Me Again

Sort of doing a Jack by using my Schizophrenia as an excuse, but, it can make me think people are reading my thoughts and 'stealing my soul', so that the more someone copies the less real I am. I mean, it's bizarre, and that's why it's a MH issue lol! The christ on a bike comment just jarred me and I had a funny moment mentally. Thank you dear cabal for reassuring my mental nonsense as nonsense

 

[Legionnairess]

Today whilst walking the dog I happened again upon a DEAD little baby bird. Fallen from its nest and turned inside out. Mendacious fraus i shed a salty (any old salt will do, even the bath ones) tear at the sight of it. Alone.

 

[discokebab]

Same here, large extended working class families. Homes clean inside and out and woe betide anyone on the landing who didn’t take their turn cleaning the communal landing and stairs. Jack seems equate clutter with some sort of upper class vibe and eccentricity. Can you imagine the cobwebs dangling from the grease.

I had no idea people had kitchens like Allegra (and Jack's knock off) until I ventured into an upper class person's house for the first time when I was a student volunteer on a historic and v. prestigious project
Dear cabal, I was SHOOK. The Volvo was full of crap ("But darling you will need an estate car when you are older for your tools, your dogs and your children) and she had NO CUPBOARDS. Everything in her house was piled upon shelving. Trying to help her cook for the evening gave me such fear that I would cause the Jenga construction to topple at any moment. If I recall correctly I drank too much wine and sat on a dog that was under a pile of cushions too. A couple of years later I helped house sit in a sort of fancy farm (I think they were also in the film industry) and woke up to a peacock squawking in my face. That cottage was full of random stuff too like animal skins, empty picture frames and musical instruments including in every bathroom.

In other news I feel a bit Jack-esque as I decorated part of mine and Mr. Kebab's house with pictures of us through the years (Half my bloody life)

 

[LavaFlake]

Really hate this kind of rhetoric. It’s so divisive and reductive. So what if Tom Kerridge doesn’t have the lived experience of food poverty? He’s using his resource, know how and influence to help others who do.

The thing is... he does when compared to Mx Range Rover! He grew up in a single parent family cooking for his siblings when his Mum was at work.

 

[bladiesla]

I see Captain Salty is back on board!

It's way too early for a thread title, but 'Captain Salty, back on board' should be a good one.

 

[Powershower]

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YOU ARE NOTASINGLEMUM

 

[Veronicaaa]

I think that these are mainly the people who think Jacks recipes are wonderful for other people

Yeah, remember that Guardian journalist telling the story about how his editor was looking at Jack's recipes and said "but no one actually eats this stuff, do they" (paraphrasing). The journo posted it on twitter to make a point about how out of touch the editor was, but obviously the editor was spitting truth!

 

[blurstoftimes]

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'I'm having treatment/i'm going through something serious i can't talk about' in 3...2...1...

 

[Purplepeopleeater]

It's like jack monroe has had their moment and is behaving like a pub bore who people humour and forget what their real glory days were as the "I coulda been a contender" vibe has obscured it. Marcus and Tom are doing real cooking and activism, Jamie had a lockdown how to programme, Nadia is doing the people stuff. Jack monroe is fast becoming irrelevant and past their sell by date. You can bet there's a good reason that the Marcus PR machine is keeping him well away from JM.

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

Serial killer vibes. I bet the new tennants negotiated a complete redo. It's so claustrophobic and that's before you get to the rusty knifes hanging on the wall.

That’s exactly it, claustrophobic! Alright it was a basic no frills kitchen before but it looked pretty light and spacious. Those horrid black shelves and the weird tile notes make it look so dingy and small. I think she put the “caution, hot” sticker on as well as I can’t see it in the first picture, was she trying to make it look like a restaurant kitchen?! She’s such a weirdo, like a child playing at being a grownup but they don’t actually know what that looks like.

 

[Eurgh]

He’s definitely got a log in so he can see screenshots. It’s a slippery slope m’ladybot. Go and doff your cap elsewhere.

 

[Veronicaaa]

LOL this is funny re. Jack's proposed outfit ....

..... especially when you read the poster's bio ....