Jack Monroe #296 Over cooked, under cooked, pumbling free

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Agreed, it would make sense. She's done pretty well financially out of lockdown and the cost of living crisis in terms of work and TV appearances and she's in her mid to late 30s, which is the average age these days for a UK person to be able to buy their first place if they don't have access to the Bank of Mum n Dad. And we know she potentially has access to Bank of Mum n Dad anyway, so...

TBH I'd be happy for her if that was the case, she clearly is a 'my home is my castle' kinda person and having her own place to truly do up and personalise will likely be really good for her mental health and emotional wellbeing. It would be good to see her acknowledging that home ownership is increasingly a privilege in the UK when really a safe and stable home is a human right. Will she have the humility to do that? Whaddya think Fraus?
I might be a terrible person but I wouldn't be happy for her if she did buy a house having spent the last two years constantly moaning about having £34 in her bank account, not being able to turn her heating on and having to RENT for the rest of her days. Anything she does buy will have been at least partly funded by the well-meaning but naive squigs she's manipulated into thinking she's a hair's width away from destitution.
 
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1. the slow mo stirring the contents of a child’s nappy
2. the shaking like a shitting dog. again.
3. the substitutions 😂😂😂
4. the grotty t-shirt that looks like it needs throwing away
5. the stupid gelatine in the middle of the cake. no wait, it’s pear 😂
I'm stuck on the vase, is that a regular feature?! it looks like it's mooning the cookery
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Ya know Jack likes to LARP as an outsider to the media elite bubble ("too tattooed", "too Essex", "Too non binary" etc) but I literally cannot think of anyone else who has been given so many second chances at a TV career as she has, after demonstrating her incompetence every single time. Same goes for her books and social media / current affairs platforms. She honestly fails upwards harder than a cis white straight rich blonde handsome dude lol.
My theoretical explanation is that her two famous exes have a lot of media clout in the small, posh, exclusive circles of programme commissioners and media movers and shakers. So people still want to do Jack favours for that reason.

ETA I can't watch her Lorraine slots because the shaking would trigger me too much. Would take me back to my active addiction days, I used to get terrible shakes and do the stupidest most far fetched things to try ad cover it up. I am NOT spositing addiction as the reason for Jack's shakes, not at all, your Honour! Just for me, it brings back horrible memories.
I reckon she is cheap as chips to book. Jack is so desperate and biting at the bit to get any high profile gig. I honestly think she is probably super cheap as a booking and that's the reason she keeps getting the gigs.

Any researchers/bookers would look at her Twitter numbers, the lies the main media peddles and think they've got a right bargain. She's the Easy Jet of TV cooking! You get what you pay for and are left wholly disappointed.
 
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OT why is his girlfriend called Grimes? That doesn't exactly make you think oh yes I will date this person unless your our little pixie. She seems to like grimey sounding things.

Also the pear cake I just can't. What's wrong with a basci Vicky sponge. Cheap and chips and neatly everyone loves it.
“According to the timestamps on her original Myspace page,[non-primary source needed]Boucher began writing music under the name Grimes in 2007. Her performer name was chosen because at the time, MySpace allowed artists to list three musical genres. She listed "grime" for all three, without knowing what the grime music genre was.[21][22]Grimes is self-taught in music and visual art.”

This is what Wikipedia says.
 
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I'm spending quite a lot of time of hold this morning so to help pass the time I've invented a game. I send a photo of a Jack creation to the group chat and people guess what it is. Hilarity has ensued.

Episode one: Chocolate and pear cake (the Sloppy Saver screenshot was found in a puddle stolen from here, soz)
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Feel free to pop something in my tip jar if you're impressed with my game invention, it took me 100 hours to perfect.

ETA: one of the reactions to the big reveal that it was actually a cake.
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Why indeed friend, why indeed.

Please say there are more rounds of this game I LOVE it!!!!



I’m still not over the cake. Like a previous post says why not a Victoria sponge - most likely have some type of marg and sugar and eggs and flour is much cheaper than apple sauce and coconut milk and can be used for other things. Or maybe a tea loaf - there’s a fab recipe that uses weetabix and tea again things your more likely to have in the house. And I’m sure you can make a cake mix up with a can of pop - again cheaper and tastes nicer.
 
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Please say there are more rounds of this game I LOVE it!!!!



I’m still not over the cake. Like a previous post says why not a Victoria sponge - most likely have some type of marg and sugar and eggs and flour is much cheaper than apple sauce and coconut milk and can be used for other things. Or maybe a tea loaf - there’s a fab recipe that uses weetabix and tea again things your more likely to have in the house. And I’m sure you can make a cake mix up with a can of pop - again cheaper and tastes nicer.
I'm currently waiting for them to guess the secret ingredient in Jack's pancakes. I'm having far too much fun 🦉🍾
 
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Guten tag frauen!

I’ve been lurking from the beginning pretty much… drawn in on another thread and then stayed for Jack Monroe.

I’m neither poor or much of a cook (am I Jack?) it’s mostly the comedy of the canal that keeps me here.

On many occasions, I’ve been close to leaving my dark, lurkers cave, drawn out by the hilarity of (in no particular order) the kumquat salon, DKL, Go Henry, Novak Nail, Shimmery Black Eye, Vintage Spoons, The Chairs, the brave fraus who have followed a recipe with the most hilarious commentary and results (mince pie sandwich anyone?), the wonderful poetry (Why you sad? Geography bad), The Vaginal Boils Index, Pet Slop Bots Landslide (thankspaceyou) The Onion Police...

I could go on, the laughs have been endless.

However lads, today is the day... I finally cracked.

The Power of the Pumble has overcome me.

I’m also eagerly awaiting thread 300. I’m sure the Cable will have something spectacular planned and I’m (finally) here for it.

This is without doubt, the funniest place on the internet.
Now duck off!
WE KNEW YOU WOULD BECOME SENTIENT, PUMBLE!

Please don't eat any of us, we're not sloppy enough.
 
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I might be a terrible person but I wouldn't be happy for her if she did buy a house having spent the last two years constantly moaning about having £34 in her bank account, not being able to turn her heating on and having to RENT for the rest of her days. Anything she does buy will have been at least partly funded by the well-meaning but naive squigs she's manipulated into thinking she's a hair's width away from destitution.
No I get it, I would be outraged for that reason, especially if she tries to play it down or hide the fact that she's bought? But tbh in my mind, Jack's grifting and lying is already firmly baked into my perception of everything she does, so I can feel that outrage but also more objectively recognise that owning her own place would probably improve her mental state if that makes sense!
reckon she is cheap as chips to book. Jack is so desperate and biting at the bit to get any high profile gig. I honestly think she is probably super cheap as a booking and that's the reason she keeps getting the gigs.
Hmmm I dunno about that, I rekcon she's more liekly to be an overcharger, given that she's a self-acknowledged greedy little goblin. Since most normies still totally buy her pov LARP, she ticks woke boxes for many organisations keen to demonstrate their caring credentials, so people are willing to pay.

And to all the posters wondering about Grimes, off-topic but her music is the BOMB. If you're into stuff like K-Pop, Charli XCX, SOPHIE, Janet Jackson in her more experimental phases, then give Grimes' album Visions a whirl. It's weird but fab!
 
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Gutted to have missed a watch along yesterday, but added to the gallery. She must have recorded this one first given she's shaking like a hostage victim. Maybe they ditched the filmed clip for last week as it was that bad?

It's still not been added to the Lorraine site 🤣

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The slow-mo shots are doing me in, especially the one of the 'smooth' and 'glossy' batter.
 
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There are dinners we all cook where you look at it and think: ‘that’s a masterpiece’ and there are other dinners where they look like crap, taste okay and more importantly, fill a hole.
that fake risotto falls into the latter category and should never have been photographed by someone who makes their living out of cooking.
worse still (for me) is that she got one of those background rolls of paper out, and colour coordinated the bowl with it.
like, you can polish the curd as much as possible; it still looks like tit.
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If I were to make the monstrosity of a cake why do I need apple sauce instead of egg when I have pulverised the pear into pear sauce. Where did the singular piece of pear come from when the pear was pulverised. Why was it not called chocolate and ginger cake as the was a huge amount off ginger in it. Did the ginger not mask the flavour of both the chocolate and the pear. Why did you bloody bother. So many questions
 
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There are dinners we all cook where you look at it and think: ‘that’s a masterpiece’ and there are other dinners where they look like crap, taste okay and more importantly, fill a hole.
that fake risotto falls into the latter category and should never have been photographed by someone who makes their living out of cooking.
worse still (for me) is that she got one of those background rolls of paper out, and colour coordinated the bowl with it.
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You can see why she normally cuts up and hides the sausages. They just look so sad and unappetising.

And as others said, why sausages as a risotto side?! A nice chunk of bread and/or salad would make it a better and healthier meal. She's a performing moron!
 
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"Apple sauce, which you might have on the side of your roast, if you're that sort of person." Why does Jack make apple sauce consumers sound like the local peeping tom?
 
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Suzie wants in on the pumble mash up - She’s got Jack nailed today “work feebly and ineffectively” but I wonder is a spuddle the puddle Jack finds her instant mash 🥔?
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You can see why she normally cuts up and hides the sausages. They just look so sad and unappetising.

And as others said, why sausages as a risotto side?! A nice chunk of bread and/or salad would make it a better and healthier meal. She's a performing moron!
They add nothing but large and gristle. There is already protein in the endame beans and any cheese. It's like they saw a primo verde risotto and thought how can I get it up
 
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