Jack Monroe #244 Why has she turned this into supermarket sweep?

[People-huv-tae-know]

Fuxache

Brits will 'starve to death' as food and energy prices soar, campaigner warns

Poverty campaigner Jack Monroe says the cost of living crisis is worse than ever for vulnerable families across the UK - and warns people will die as a result of it

www.mirror.co.uk

That's right Jack, scare vulnerable and already stressed people shitless she is so bleeping dangerous.

 

[freya]

I hope I’m allowed to do this as it’s from the last thread and is quoting a Tattle user…

But yes actually I know Hunger by Knut Hamsun quite well. I studied him when I was at university doing Scandinavian Studies, I still have my copy from yonks ago and the comparison is hilarious I would take photos but my possessions are currently with a domestically violent ex partner. He thinks it’s “sad” that Tattle is my hobby, I think it’s fun and a bit of a distraction until you get so pissed off you actually post!

Please mods don’t ban me for not quite knowing all the rules yet. If this post is not allowed please feel free to delete.

Also quoting myself, the bone. Of a chicken if I recall correctly. He kept gnawing and gnawing. Like our smol pixie on a stock cube

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Any chance the Spectator is going to run its own version Jack? To reach non Mirror and Observer readers?

 

[sioc]

I'm too lazy to go find the exact post, but one of the things that irritates me most about the recent chaos was in her original thread lamenting the disproportionate effect of inflation on the poorest (not untrue to be fair to her!) a squig replied to one of the pricings saying something like "You can get that cheaper in lidl". Was her response to retweet that in order to help people find the cheapest food? Nope, she just replied to the squig saying (something like) "Lidl is too far from me".

Even in her big polemic about helping the poorest she just can't get away from that "me me me" mentality.

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

She completely missed the trick by steering clear of Aldi and Lidl. Unless of course, they did their homework and wouldn't touch her with a barge pole (and told her so too!). Hence her ignoring them.

Imagine her tales if she went in Aldi or Lidl? The nasty stereotyping quips she’d come out with, then they’d of course be the inevitable drama of some sorts. A tutting man saying “if she can afford Lacura moisturiser she should put the Choco break biscuits back for the genuinely poor” or how the shifty hooded jacket wearing person bumped into her and she didn’t realise until she’d gotten home but now her purse has disappeared.
Followed by the squigs praising her for being such a brave lamb for venturing into a shop that serves “those sorts”.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Further light relief because I think we've collectively reached our limit, a very cheap shot from my painfully hipster self but if you're going to be all waaaaah about food prices don't use a example like this?

My friends don’t do this sort of thing. And at least one of them is a journo, several involved in local politics etc.
who does this? Who are these people?

 

[HansThatDoDishes]

Oh Vlad, suggesting something for the VBPI are we?

 

[Raydog]

I do wonder if j1g increased at the same rate , also go to bleeping Aldi £4 bus fare or not it’s the cheapest

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

My friends don’t do this sort of thing. And at least one of them is a journo, several involved in local politics etc.
who does this? Who are these people?

I won’t swear dear Hotes but it rhymes with bankers.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

My friends don’t do this sort of thing. And at least one of them is a journo, several involved in local politics etc.
who does this? Who are these people?

Tunnel dog is my only friend and at the moment she isn’t talking to me because of ~guardian rant~ so I can’t comment.

 

[HotesTilaire]

I won’t swear dear Hotes but it rhymes with bankers.

Tankers! Gotcha.

Tunnel dog is my only friend and at the moment she isn’t talking to me because of ~guardian rant~ so I can’t comment.

We’re your friends (but we’re not helping)

 

[Emmapism]

I think I've said before that my local Morrisons is about 30 mins from where I live. Thankfully my Aldi is closer but if it wasn't....... I'd just walk. Lots of people don't mind a 45 minute walk if it means the weekly shop is tonnes cheaper.

Fraus, she's everywhere. Researching extensively

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Tankers! Gotcha.


We’re your friends (but we’re not helping)

No, we are spiralling into a major rant!

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[Pavlova]

She's written for the Graun... sorry if it's already been posted
The Guardian: We’re pricing the poor out of food in the UK – that’s why I’m launching my own price index.

We’re pricing the poor out of food in the UK – that’s why I’m launching my own price index | Jack Monroe

A whole section of society is being cut adrift by the rising cost of supermarket shopping

www.theguardian.com

Oh god noooo. I check in, to have a lil grunk on page 11, it's half ten and there's 27 pages.
Edit to add: Jack and the Graun are ideally suited tbh, always on the bloody beg and both are miles richer than me!!

 

[lozzaxo]

I mean what even are her top tips for low budget cooking? Aside from buying loads of yellow sticker produce you don't need and blending it all into slop? And making swaps like mince beef for corned beef which is actually more expensive per gram.

Genuinely I cannot think of a single budgeting tip. Am I being dense?

She once suggested salad bag pesto i.e chopping sad/wilting salad leaves up with raw garlic and putting in a jar with olive oil then putting it over pasta like you could pesto. Spaghetti with bits of lettuce doesn’t sound appetising or like pesto. Lettuce is not interchangeable with basil and the pesto flavour is also from the pine nuts and Parmesan. I thought that was a waste of olive oil tbh.

 

[NomDeGuerre]

duck me she's the front page of the People tomorrow!

 

[TriviaNewtonJohn]

I haven't read the Jack pages for a long long time but I've just been served her article on Facebook and it's the same old tit. She's still an insufferable hypocrite.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Also let’s play this forward - I’m not sure if I’ve turned dumb reading her tit or if this makes any sense so pls correct me -

If her index continues to cite that the basics have gone up 334% across the board from food to rents to utilities, surely this means she has to advocate for a 334% increase to minimum wage / all wages really? So just using the example from this gov site (can’t embed link neatly annoyingly sorry but source: https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-different-types-work/paid-an-annual-salary) of someone on min wage earning £1,421 pcm - this now needs to be £6,167 to buy the same basket of goods/lifestyle they could *last year*?

 

[Flash123]

She’ll be posting about how creme eggs are smaller in no time

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

Sorry for going OT but for anyone finding Jack too much. there’s always the Food and Drink thread. Which is a mixture of all sorts of food chat, pet photos and a panda vs koala discussion

Food and Drink #22 Off-topic Jacktivities

Tazs need to make a comeback come on Cadbury’s make it happen. if cadburys need to make anything happen it is cherry ripe bars in the UK! Tehre used to be a couple of Antipodean shops that sold them but seemingnly none exist anymore (in london anyway)

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