Jack Monroe #29

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MancBee

Can't get Monty Python out of my ear.... paraphrased of course.... She is not the messiah, she's a very naughty (self obsessed, fame hungry, white saviour, etc etc) girl.
 
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Harrybosch

I also think there were about 6 pictures she retweeted and at least 2 didn't really look that bad to me. Several teachers commented on what their schools are sending out (very good quality stuff) and explained why the vouchers don't work in all situations. So of all the hundreds of thousands of food parcels and vouchers that have gone out in the middle of a pandemic, a few were substandard. I genuinely feel for the families who were given crap, but unfortunately hardly any initiative is ever perfect.

The people going on about how it would last their kid for one or two days - I don't think they realise this is meant to be lunch only. Most pictures I saw would be a sandwich/jacket potato/rice with some cheese/beans/sauce, a piece of fruit or veg and a biscuit. Maybe not hugely exciting, but that's what my kids eat at lunchtime.

Outrage is so easy. I know that the food parcels from my primary are amazing (my neighbour gets them). They are prepared by the usual caterers on site and delivered by teachers/TAs/office staff. A really great way to stay in touch with a very vulnerable family over this difficult time. All I see around me a people caring a lot for their community. I don't deny that this isn't always the case and some people are fobbed off, but it's really unfair and unrepresentative to create some anger and rage online about this issue.

Do something, Jack, if you are so angry. Or, perhaps better in this case, sit down, have a cup of tea, stay away from Twitter and let Marcus Rashford get on with it.

Ellabella said:
I heard about this on the news (not specifically about Aldi strawberries ), but the fact supermarkets are getting restaurant quality produce at the moment as the suppliers can't sell it to restaurants.
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As an Aldi shopper and strawberry fanatic, I've got all the important facts here.
 
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Silver Linings

Great post. It’s BLM all over again. Her followers read her outraged tweets, retweeted them, tsked to themselves about the poor little unwashed hungry children and then got on with their evening never to mention it or think about it again.

But in a few months when things will hopefully be better and Marcus Rashford is getting honoured then they’ll be outraged on her behalf that as the co-campaigner she isn’t being credited for her work. I’m annoyed already!
 
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lipsticktaser

The charity I’m volunteering with are having to get government funding to provide laptops and internet for high school aged children. This is an attempt to keep them involved in school work. But think of what they have already missed.
they won’t have the capability to be online for the voucher system.
That’s just the children this charity helps. Think of the thousands between the cracks. She is being ridiculously naive to the situation at hand.
 
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heretoreaditall2019

It’s the sort of shit a sixth form student who watches the mighty boosh would come out with thinking it’s ~edgy? This is a grown woman.

I know this is about twitter but I follow Nat Geo on insta and love it, I end up following a lot of photographers who are working on long term projects like... elephant conservation, or in hospitals etc, so it’s like you get to check in on them all and how they’re doing! It’s such a nicer way to use insta than following influencers & shops.
 
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blurstoftimes

Oh she was sooooo the type of person who quirkily quoted The Mighty Boosh constantly
 
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J4n0Z

Silver Linings said:
‘Roasting’

She did my fucking head in earlier, I needed a time out. HOOTED when I saw she’d obv. been shamed into tweeting about Marcus Rashford. Dipstick.
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Ah, but did you laugh up a lung? Cos you're not doing it properly otherwise!
 
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LavaFlake

It's just a load of hot air isn't it? That's all she can seemingly offer. Shouting about stuff on Twitter or writing articles in the Guardian, whether that's free school meals, Jamie Oliver, veganism, whatever. She loves the idea of a good crusade but actually actioning it is a different matter. Think of the all the political lobbying, networking, petitions, TV appearances not talking about themselves etc that was done by Marcus or JO - it wasn't just a few shouty Tweets.

I think he earlier books did offer a better and creative (not weird) use of cheap ingredients, so to me - that was something good. But her Tin Can one for example, didn't she say to chuck 3 different cans of tomato soup, tinned tomatoes and something else (maybe sundried tomatoes?) to make a soup? Sure it would be better to split them out and make two or three separate, and more nutritious, meals? Judging from the recipes in that book, and her deprissipes, I don't think she can talk about nutrition (my opinion, as ever). Especially when all the meat she now seems to eat is hot dog sausages and the like.
 
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LittleBitAlexis

Thoughts of Dog is one of my very favourites. It's so wholesome, it's the first place I go when I need a cheer up! I would also recommend @TheCatReviewer, @Flumps .

@Fesshole sometimes has me howling but can take a darker turn now and then.

Yep, this.

We had a tough few years when I was kid - first, the miner's strike when we lost our home and then again a few years later when my dad had re-trained as a social worker but then had a nervous breakdown and a heart attack. Looking back, I know there were times my mum didn't eat to make sure that we did. She'd just tell us that she was on a diet. I remember our meals being really carb-heavy during those times because she knew she could fill us up for pennies. A cheap tin of meatballs for example, would feed 3 kids amply when accompanied by white rice or pasta. Giant, homemade Yorkshire puds filled with mash, carrots and gravy was one of our favourites, as was a stew made with cheap mince bulked out with loads of potatoes and pearl barley. Boiled pasta tossed in a sauce made from a tin of chopped tomatoes and dried mixed herbs. Eggs, beans or tinned tomatoes on toast. Homemade curries full of lentils and veg on the turn. Not a rinsed bean in sight and it was all good, enjoyable food.

My mum wouldn't have been able to feed us as well as she did though without having basic cooking skills, and she made sure that she passed those skills on to us. I feel that's where the gap is these days - so many people don't know the basics of putting a meal together. Jack's USP of combining tins of slop to make inedible waste isn't cooking, not by a long shot. Again, this is something that Jamie Oliver has already done really well with Ministry of Food, which probably boil's Jack's piss to the point of evaporation!

EDIT - just a quick add-on to say that yes, I appreciate that there are other factors in play such as lack of time due to work and access to / affordability of cooking facilities etc.
 
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emm

It’s because she never sticks with anything, remember the blm thing last week? That’s gone, she constantly mentions projects she’s working on and nothing ever happens
 
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Nottonightbabe

Yes, this is exactly what will happen! I can picture the outraged tweets from her bunch already
 
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CottageWitch

I tell you what, I'm only on thread 8 and it seems like every time I move to the next one you lot have filled up three more! I'm going to have to take a week's holiday from work just to catch up so we're on the same page at this rate
 
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emm

Yes I haven’t seen broccoli in weeks in any of the 4 places I shop at!
 
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TruffleTrifle

Couldn’t get asparagus anywhere last I tried. Maybe picking is slowing down!
 
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colouredlines



I keep seeing posts like this.

a) Admittedly I'm not in the UK, but does any country on earth recommend that children eat five pieces of fruit for lunch each day? No wonder you have a toilet paper shortage.

b) Why is everyone asking Jack for nutritous food? Jack has never been about nutrition; she's always been about eating as cheaply as possible. In fact, she frequently scoffs at people who want the poor to get nutrients (see: lemons). This is a woman who rinses spaghetti hoops FFS. Are they thinking of someone else, maybe someone who has run a few campaigns about healthy school meals...? The name's on the tip of my tongue...
 
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Hunty

She wants to eat herself as her last meal? Because she thinks she tastes good? Well I've bloody heard it all now Jack you won't taste good, you've spent years filling your body with disgusting slop poorly cooked by you.... Sure you can eat your own leg but you have to cook it yourself

Morning folks
 
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emm

I really wish she’d gone on a That Man style rant against Marcus, could you imagine? It’d have been hilarious and all the tweets would’ve been deleted even quicker than usual
 
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Flumps

Thank you for @TheCatReviewer (and for all the Twitter recommendations, my feed is immeasurably improved already).

I've said it before, but what really bugs me about some of JM's slop recipes (I know some work, but it seems a vast proportion are hugely unappetising) is that I got, like you, a very solid grounding in food from a very young age. I helped my mum cook for as long as I can remember. I could cook edible meals by myself at 11/12 and I've never been in a position where I've doubted my ability to cook, or thought of it as an inaccessible or difficult thing to do. So, if I made one of JM's recipes and it was shit, I would automatically assume it was the recipe, not me. Actually, more likely, I wouldn't cook it at all, because I'd read the ingredients list and method and have a reasonable idea of what the finished product would be like. If I didn't have that grounding and experience, I suspect I would assume it was me that was the problem, and if I was working on a limited budget feel (a) shit about my inability to cook and (b) guilty for wasting money. This doesn't open doors to cooking, it slams them shut in people's faces and that really pisses me off.
 
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Cookiecookie

emm said:
Yes I haven’t seen broccoli in weeks in any of the 4 places I shop at!
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Is frozen broccoli still available? It's quite nice in a cheese sauce, with or without cauli. Budget Bytes roasts it too, which I've not tried, but her recipes are usually really good.
 
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