This reinforces my belief that none of JM’s squigs and flying monkeys have ever cooked a single one of her recipes. I also don’t think that JM’s primary purpose in publishing recipes is to enable people to produce nice food. It is performative poverty porn pure and simple. I go back to the first recipe I ever saw of hers in the Guardian website, which was cheesy pea pasta (cook the pasta and mix with grated cheese and mushy peas. That was it. That was the recipe.). I remember thinking at the time surely no Guardian reader is going to cook that? And how many WC people or people in severe poverty actually read the Guardian? I don’t think the editor was under any illusion that the typical guardian reader was going to cook that recipe. The purpose was for MC Guardian readers to get a sneaky peak about how the “other half” lives and enjoy some povertybporn whilst also having their middle class guilt assuaged by the smug feeling that Jack was someone who could do the hard work of helping others whilst they themselves could get on with their privileged lives and never have to fear any, ya know, real social change or class revolution. That was basically her purpose. It still is. Marxists have a word for the type of role a Jack Monroe fills for the bourgeoisie, I can’t recall what it is but it ain’t complementary. Basically there to create the illusion that class injustice is being addressed whilst actually making it worse. Worst thing of all is Jack seems perfectly content to play that role.
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Surely everyone already does things like pasta and peas if that's all they have. I've made similar things many times, it's just using common sense really. Goodness knows how she built a career out of it, that's the thing I can never understand.
Yeah, like all those pasta things she has knocked out lately aren’t really recipes as such they are just vegetable pastas. She just makes it extra weird by putting everything together and it always just looks brown.
Well, exactly. Does it need space in a prominent broadsheet newspaper? It’s like JM’s insistence that she revolutionised burgers by making a black bean and carrot burger. Does she really expect people to believe that no one anywhere, ever, has ever thought of mashing veg and pulses together to make a patty? What does she think tikki or felafel are? Vegetable patties have existed in cooking for centuries.
Oh Vlad, you are a one..
Because her middle class audience are the type of people who think the "poor" are feckless, thick idiots who only know how to cook oven chips and therefore need blatantly obvious things like pasta and peas pointed out to them.
It all fits into the narrative of "You can live on £20 a week, if you aren't you're just not trying hard enough" that she also encourages through her ridiculous £20 shops (of course the cabal and questioning squigs know that she uses stuff outwith the shops but the audience she's going for won't check). AND her constant posts about £34 in her bank account and not having wifi and Netflix and whatever else she's claiming this week then managing to buy X luxury ingredient/hats/sideboards also play into the same stereotype - look at all she accomplishes with £34 cos she's cut out stuff so anyone who is struggling just mustn't be doing that. Never mind that wifi is basically essential for claiming all benefits if you live somewhere that doesn't have fab phone signal indoors or that the kids need it for school work and Netflix helps fill the time hole of all the lessons and extra-curricular activities Jack had as a child, and I'm sure SB is lucky enough to benefit from, that actual poor people can't bleeping afford.
She's vile and she's playing right into every single stereotype she claims not to, and is constantly absolutely shitting on the very people she's claiming to help but the audience she has laps it right up to make themselves feel better and that's how she's got her career. She's no better than Hopkins or Mogg - in fact, at least they have the slight redemption that they're honest about who they are rather than being snobby by stealth like Jack.
Quisling? Because extremely this.
If I remember correctly her happy mood crashed like Wall Street not long after this tweet.
My mum is someone who has got better at cooking as she gets older. My brother still slags her off for making him eat spaghetti and grated cheese and kedgeree. I would still eat my mums spaghetti with cheese over anything jack cooks. Fact.
Wat
Is the tooting a reference to something I'm not getting, or is it just supposed to be like 'ner ner'?She was just giving folk on here the two fingers because she was so happy. Lasted a week and she was back in the bad mentalsWat
My name is Jack. I am not writing. I can’t write at the moment so I’m writing about not writing. I did try books but I’ve already read the tit out of all my Janet and John’s. So I write. I have a deadline, so that is making me stressed. So I can’t write. So I’m writing about NOTHING. The deadline is for a book I should have finished in 2019 and there are other deadlines for books before and after that date but I can’t write right now. So I’m writing about nothing. I wonder if someone did an analysis of all my work, that they’d find out that all my writing is about nothing. And always has been. But nobody’s spotted it. Yikes. I’d better start writing something about something soon, distract people from looking too closely and realising it all amounts to nothing. All of it.
I wish the books had honest pull quotes like these on the cover.
A GIRL CALLED JACK
"The peach and chickpea curry was weird"
"Jack isn't a very good cook"
"You might be disappointed"
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I feel a bit sorry for her because she will obviously want her teeth done, but can’t be too obvious with it as people would point out the cost. If she does show up with new knashers expect a fantastical tale like no other of how she managed it on the NHS!
She's not gonna shag you, squig.
This is several threads late so sorry if it's been mentioned already, but it's just occurred to me that the stuff she was saying about her detractors mostly being GC might be about Mumsnet rather than here. She's very controversial on there but it seems to be more to do with gender identity than her being a grifter or her food being rubbish. I was a member there long before here and until I found tattle thought her only crime was seeming to change her mind a lot about how she identified. I googled and found this thread of hers (haven't read beyond the first post because I don't care):
Edit - forgot Tattle bans MN thread links
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Writing is not that hard hun. Don’t want to 
myself but I teach people to improve their writing skills in the corporate world. It’s a myth that you need to have natural talent to write. You can become a better writer with very little effort. Jack could massively improve her writing simply by keeping recipe intros to ~100 words and by reading the words she’s written out loud. Anything hard to pronounce or slows down the flow? Use a simpler term.
And yeah, forcing yourself to write if you’re not in the mood or pretentiously writing about your writer’s block as if you’re Hunter S Thompson doesn’t do tit.
myself but I teach people to improve their writing skills in the corporate world. It’s a myth that you need to have natural talent to write. You can become a better writer with very little effort. Jack could massively improve her writing simply by keeping recipe intros to ~100 words and by reading the words she’s written out loud. Anything hard to pronounce or slows down the flow? Use a simpler term.And yeah, forcing yourself to write if you’re not in the mood or pretentiously writing about your writer’s block as if you’re Hunter S Thompson doesn’t do tit.
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