I’m pretty sure her whole argument has now become: “every supermarket in the world should have 20p pasta on the shelves at all times. And don’t forget other staple foods such as anchoiade.”
Jack Monroe #248 Let's face it, she's the Rachel Dolezal of poverty
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It is all so easy to debunk. I'm on my lunch hour and this has taken 5mins using her 2015 figures as comparison:
Asda
Lettuce 50p now 42p
Lemons (5) 22p now 20p
Lard 250g 45p now 39p
Lemon curd 250g 25p now 65p
Lasagne sheets 500g 35p now 375g 79p but pasta 500g available at 70p
Lemon juice 250ml 55p now 39p
Tesco
Lettuce now 42p
Lemons now 54p for 4 so 13.5p
Lard now 39p
Lemon curd now 65p for 400g
Lasagne sheets now 500g 70p but pasta 500g available at 29p
Lemon juice now 60p
So apart from lemon curd they have mostly gone down. I never understood her lemon curd obsession anyway. Stirring it into rice does not a Chinese sweet and sour make.
God she is so annoying
Asda
Lettuce 50p now 42p
Lemons (5) 22p now 20p
Lard 250g 45p now 39p
Lemon curd 250g 25p now 65p
Lasagne sheets 500g 35p now 375g 79p but pasta 500g available at 70p
Lemon juice 250ml 55p now 39p
Tesco
Lettuce now 42p
Lemons now 54p for 4 so 13.5p
Lard now 39p
Lemon curd now 65p for 400g
Lasagne sheets now 500g 70p but pasta 500g available at 29p
Lemon juice now 60p
So apart from lemon curd they have mostly gone down. I never understood her lemon curd obsession anyway. Stirring it into rice does not a Chinese sweet and sour make.
God she is so annoying
I'm enjoying this grunker after being stressed by the Jack smugness.
The food bank discussion - I donate with a large portion of passive aggression. Donate great pile of undesirable tins , tell everyone about it on social media and also say I have no money.
The food bank discussion - I donate with a large portion of passive aggression. Donate great pile of undesirable tins , tell everyone about it on social media and also say I have no money.
She's annoyed me so much today, she's sent me into the arms of my downfall (Dairy Milk with popping candy out the vending machine at work). I can't tell you what the price increase is because I scoff it and then pretend it didn't happen. No forensic brain over here.
she truly is.
perhaps controversial, but i'd rather keep foodbanks open, where decent people can donate decent quality food, rather than closing foodbanks and expecting every poor person to eat smart-price food forever.
What also pisses me off is all the talking about the poor (often weirdly stereotyped as well) rather then asking them. Not just Jack Monroe but all her defenders that come flying in if you dare disagreeing with her.
Will you please try to remember Thorpe Bay last Wednesday at 4pm!
she can, she just chooses not toHere's where Jack demonstrates she can't even do a basic google search. Sticking it to da man
i don't think we need to fear. i read steve's "happy to share..." tweet as being a bit snarky and, until i saw the follow-up, "steve's listening", i thought jack was being snarky and pass agg back. i was clearly giving her too much credit!
i can't wait for him to ping over his Facts and Data!
he can ping me anytime etc...
i can't wait for him to ping over his Facts and Data!
he can ping me anytime etc...
We've had an odd lack of pinging from Ms Monroe recently. Perhaps it's only in her vocabularly when she's not got herself into an unbridled narcissistic froth.
So 35% of her local community live in poverty & Asda stock goods according to that (meaning they won’t have 100% of the cheaper ranges as 65% aren’t necessarily demanding them?)
Groundbreaking.
Since when did Jack decide supermarkets are charities & that poor people supplying/picking/packing food should be squeezed so that she can buy 1p lemon curd?
Weird she never has a go at retailers like Cotswold or John Lewis selling £300 coffee machines when cheaper ones are available & they’re preying on her ‘shiny shiny magpie’ tendencies?
Charlatan.
Groundbreaking.
Since when did Jack decide supermarkets are charities & that poor people supplying/picking/packing food should be squeezed so that she can buy 1p lemon curd?
Weird she never has a go at retailers like Cotswold or John Lewis selling £300 coffee machines when cheaper ones are available & they’re preying on her ‘shiny shiny magpie’ tendencies?
Charlatan.
Can somebody please go check her local Asda so this non sense can end 
Out of her entire stupid Smartprice list I might have bought peanut butter and possibly flour when I was very poor for a while. I lived off what I now realise is where she copied lingreenie from...
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/world-s-most-elegant-winter-pasta/
A Savoy cabbage was 50p and pasta was 20p or something like that (I don't keep LITERAL RECEIPTS!) and they always always had reduced fancy cheese in the deli for like 30p. It's almost as if she has no bleeping idea.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/world-s-most-elegant-winter-pasta/
A Savoy cabbage was 50p and pasta was 20p or something like that (I don't keep LITERAL RECEIPTS!) and they always always had reduced fancy cheese in the deli for like 30p. It's almost as if she has no bleeping idea.
She's so creative and adaptable she could make her own with bramley mouse skin
babe, same
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I thought I had imagined it in some kind of fugue state but yes she did:
It was live below the line challenge to be fair but still. Was from this article:
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I thought I had imagined it in some kind of fugue state but yes she did:
It was live below the line challenge to be fair but still. Was from this article:
Jack Monroe cooks on £1 a day for Live Below the Line 2014 | Food | The Guardian
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Coming out of lurking because I’m so confused by this. I work with large amounts of numbers daily (more tax return adjacent than CPI admittedly) and I have no idea what the point of this project is? Why are so many people buying into this and retweeting without any critical thought?
The fact that things are going to get much worse for people definitely is worth talking about. But not this s1 maths group homework. It’s no surprise that supermarkets in different areas carry different products, often at different prices. This is basic supply and demand economics.
The fact that things are going to get much worse for people definitely is worth talking about. But not this s1 maths group homework. It’s no surprise that supermarkets in different areas carry different products, often at different prices. This is basic supply and demand economics.
@StringyMango
I thought I had imagined it in some kind of fugue state but yes she did:
It was live below the line challenge to be fair but still. Was from this article:
Jack Monroe cooks on £1 a day for Live Below the Line 2014 | Food | The Guardian
Tee hee. 
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