Jack Monroe #199 Just mind-bogglingly, gobsmackingly stupid

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Me too I'm afraid. I'm 45 and didn't have pasta until I was about 13 or 14. I was probably a bit of a nightmare because I became vegetarian in a staunchly meat and two veg lower middle class household.
I became vegetarian at age 11 just because I didn't want to eat another bloody Sunday roast.

Most days we would have some kind of lump of meat with potatoes or chips but my mum would still occasionally make pasta. She was also very adventurous because some weeks she would make sweet and sour pork balls with leftover roast pork or bright yellow curry with rice with sultanas in it!

My sister's first taste of solids was a bit of bread dipped in bolognese sauce, this was the 80s too. I seem to remember she was 6 weeks old, a normal time for weaning back then.

Health visitors these days would have a fit if a mum told them that now.
 
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has mom acknowledged her grandson's amazing chocolatier ability yet?
 
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I’m really being a pasta truther here but if that other girl was that working class then she would have been on free school meals and I would imagine pasta is a popular option from years back?
Nope, I had FSM for a while in the late 80s and there was never pasta on the menu.

They had a main meal with a scoop of mash, a potato waffle or chips on a Friday. They also added a salad bar where you could get a baked potato with fillings.

You could get a Scotch pie with chips and beans which was my favourite!
 
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Fair enough, though I would have thought by the mid/late 90’s it would more likely be on the menu, but obviously I could be wrong or else bith Jack and her mate are being disingenuous
 
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I had school dinners in the late 80s and remember lasagne (sans horse spunk but still pretty awful), plus spaghetti occasionally making it to the menu. There would be cold pasta on the salad bar, but I don’t think anyone ever ate that. This was a very unfancy school full of feral children.

(I miss those balls of mash potato served with an ice cream scoop and feel strongly that Tottenham cake needs to make a comeback. OK that’s enough Peter Kaye style posting for now.)
 
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Yep it definitely looks like Nigella has still not responded to Jack’s tweet about the chocolate salame. Which must be disappointing because, let’s face it, that was the only purpose of the tweet.
 
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I thought it was a bit strange Jack had a recipe a few weeks ago (risotto? I think?) that called for white wine so she used non alcoholic. I do not know tbh if this is OK for people in recovery - but it struck me as an odd choice.
 
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It’s probably outsold mackies piss poor effort already
 
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Agree completely, but no one would be confronted at a meeting it’s not a confessional format or a gang Wouldn’t want anyone to ever be fearful about meetings or slips! However it would definitely be something you’d speak to your sponsor about and you would very likely come to the conclusion to reset your days. It depends on the context though, trying something and discovering you taste booze or eating the whole thing and finding out after from the person that made it is a very different behaviour to willingly putting it in to impress Mom or staying on the 0.8% ABV beers. Jack repeatedly flaunts behaviours that would really worry me about a sponsee & would trigger a convo re: resetting days. She was claiming 5 years at one point, so these types of continuous slips/inaccuracies do really matter and is why most people choose to take advantage of the tradition of anonymity… But most ppl don’t feel inclined to write trash for cash about the fellowship/a specific meeting and person down the Guardian
 
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"one of these things is not like the others and two of them don't belong"

Alas, as yet no like from bootstrapcock... sad times
 
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Do you guys not do that? At every meeting we ask someone to do the main share but rather than listening to their experience, strength and hope we all fire questions at them until they crack and admit they ate something that had alcohol in it. And then we ask about the mouthwash…

Obviously I’m jesting and agree whole heartedly with HTRIA, who always put things so brilliantly. Jack chooses to mention it when it suits her narrative, as the Squiggle says she uses the hashtags so people will come to expect her to make honest, sensible decisions about things that are important in AA if she’s promoting them.

Everyone has early days of sobriety and they’re really important. Some people will feel better seeing a public figure in sobriety and when your head is still like a burst football, you will take in what people say even if it is a random on Twitter so they might thing “oh, I can make my own Kamboucha because Jack’s in AA and she does it”.

The minute she opened the door to AA she took on a responsibility and like with everything else, she just doesn’t give a shiny shit about anyone but herself
 
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mom has just replied. It’s a shame Jack is now on a break so won’t be able to post a pic of the finished article!
 
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Yep it definitely looks like Nigella has still not responded to Jack’s tweet about the chocolate salame. Which must be disappointing because, let’s face it, that was the only purpose of the tweet.
Just noting in passing that last week Nigella asked people to let her know what they were cooking for Eid on Twitter and then gave individual replies clearly indicating that she had read and thought about the comments. There were a lot of them. It was almost as if Twitter could be used as a medium for communication?
 
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That Squiggle is interesting. Only joined in June. Following just mental health/addiction accounts, oh and a footballer.
Doesn't follow Jack.
Pops up conveniently to give Jack opportunity to say she's not drinking (or putting booze in food).
Also gives Jack another opportunity to interact nicely with a dissenting Squiggle without having tantrum.
Could be innocent, but Jack's got previous for deploying Socks to back her up in a time of need.
 
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Further shot across the bow from our friend, the recovery squig.

I absolutely love it when a squig pulls her up on her shit and it’s clear that it’s not come from here.

I can’t be the only one that wants to reply - don’t worry, it’s ALL bullshit, my friend - but, of course he has a point that 300k followers, public account and using addiction/recovery terminology for engagement should be called out. I just wish HE had a big platform to do it from.
 

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