Jack Monroe #248 Let's face it, she's the Rachel Dolezal of poverty

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Yeah Cotswolds and urban decay, all imported
 
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Surely you mean, ‘That’ll do ’.

I’ll see myself out.
 
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Just looking at her list, it's full of shit like tinned chicken in white sauce, tinned Irish stew etc. Is this genuinely what she thinks poor people consider weekly essentials? They're poor, they're not preppers ffs!
Grunkaing, so may have been mentioned. It looks more like she's doing a cupboard inventory to me. There's no prices or anything that her silly index would need, and it's the sort of stuff she buys to rinse the sauce off and cook for four hours.
 
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I thought the reason she wrote the first book was in order to educate food bank users about how to cook with the items in the food bank? Otherwise what was the point?
THERE WAS NEVER A POINT!
 
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That’s an excellent point - I live in an area with high % of working class people from South Asia & Africa and in Iceland I generally see many people just buying just eggs, milk and bread. I think rice and fresh ingredients they can get cheaply elsewhere but Iceland has the largest milk bottles & big cartons of eggs v cheap. I can’t imagine they buy many fray bentos. So if she wanted to take in the real experience of some of the poor and most vulnerable she would have to look into small butchers and grocers that serve those communities. I’d imagine their prices are less elastic.
 
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Has Jack's biro ran out of ink after listing the contents of a supermarket? No update on the vimto boobs index yet?
 
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I went tooth searching.
Early Jack with the same teeth.


Willem Dafoe Jack which I can't unsee (how the fuck does she do the chameleon impersonation so well)?


Scary teeth from a previous thread.


I would have thought that with having so much money, Jack would have done her teeth before fillers.
 
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Just out of interest, did anyone spot the £300 coffee machine when Jack was doing the kitchen (I had a break so may have missed it)? The pods for these things are expensive-I do find it annoying that Jack asks for PayPal, patreon & donations & drops hints about not being able to turn on the heating/needing to pay rent when she’s clearly well off. Why can’t she just earn money with her books & be honest about all the high end goods she has? It’s so sly-preying on the gullible.
 

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I've mentioned a couple of times on these threads about my friend who is a chef and has her own pub-restaurant. (Mostly mention her when Jack says she's going to open her own restaurant)
She (my friend) often works 20 hour days, especially at peak times like Christmas.
She doesn't mind because the pub is her life dream and she wouldn't have it any other way. Lockdown just about broke her financially and emotionally. Jack just couldn't imagine, especially with her income skyrocketing during Lockdown.
My friend went to catering college, which wasn't just cooking. She learnt how to clean a toilet properly and make a bed to a high standard. She learnt how to stock take and all about profit margins. She also learned about the history of cooking.
Same thing with people like JO and James Martin.
JO worked in the kitchen of his dad's pub from childhood.
JM helped his dad as head of catering at Castle Howard from age 12. Both spent decades being screamed at and working all hours in kitchens to learn their trade.
Clodagh Mckenna jokes she knows all about soup because she spent a year on the 'soup spot' in her first job. Can you imagine Jack doing any of that?
She is just insufferable.
 
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