Jack Monroe #300 Fauxcialist

[WTFDidIJustSee]

She's definitely said before that she and her brother don't get on so this is par for the course with Jack. Didn't she claim she'd punched him and he'd made cracks about her being a single parent?



It's hard to tell what the truth is behind Jack's many tales, but I do think her Dad must have been incredibly disappointed/annoyed when she chucked in the job he clearly got her on a whim and the stories she tells about that and the chief must be an absolute humiliation for him. Not that she should have had to stay there if she didn't like it just because he got her the job, but the way she did it seems to have created an absolutely awful situation for both of them - and if there's any truth to the poverty I assume that is the reason she didn't go to them at first.

Spoiler: “ramble”

I didn’t turn out like my parents wanted but I don’t give a crap Spent years justifying why I didn’t apply to Uni in sixth form, then when I finally went a few days after I turned 30, they bleeping moaned about that as well. Neither have anything but bare basic GCSEs, ones never worked a day in her life.

Working single parents have it rough, in general. They do all the sick days, which makes them “unreliable”, daycare is only available 8-6, weekdays, (if you’re lucky, in my hometown there are no nurseries/childminders, no after school clubs), everyone assumes you have an army of family to “step in” (most don’t) and ex’s are useless.

Hence why I had to leave work 10 years ago with a 3 and 1 year old in tow and go on benefits because I just couldn’t bleeping do it. And why I moved 7 years ago so I could live somewhere that had all the above mentioned childcare, go to college and then Uni. Still no help from anyone like but the daycare made it doable and at Uni there’s no getting fired for being off with a sick child.

 

[traumatised sideboard]

Is this a smoosh?
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No, that's a-live, get out of there, quickly! Let the Pumble deal with it.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

Bet the next photo will be a load of performative empty plates by the sink but no actual evidence of the food/guests.

And all the chairs lined up

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

Spoiler: “ramble”

I didn’t turn out like my parents wanted but I don’t give a crap Spent years justifying why I didn’t apply to Uni in sixth form, then when I finally went a few days after I turned 30, they bleeping moaned about that as well. Neither have anything but bare basic GCSEs, ones never worked a day in her life.

Working single parents have it rough, in general. They do all the sick days, which makes them “unreliable”, daycare is only available 8-6, weekdays, (if you’re lucky, in my hometown there are no nurseries/childminders, no after school clubs), everyone assumes you have an army of family to “step in” (most don’t) and ex’s are useless.

Hence why I had to leave work 10 years ago with a 3 and 1 year old in tow and go on benefits because I just couldn’t bleeping do it. And why I moved 7 years ago so I could live somewhere that had all the above mentioned childcare, go to college and then Uni. Still no help from anyone like but the daycare made it doable and at Uni there’s no getting fired for being off with a sick child.

I don't actually think there was anything wrong with her resigning if it didn't fit round SB like she said, and I don't think that alone would have been embarrassing for her dad, it's all the rest of the drama that apparently went along with it.

Plus by her own admission she had involved parents and SB's dad so in her specific situation I do think she could have avoided a lot of the problems she found herself having if she'd planned it better even if the arrangement wasn't sustainable long term. This is one of the most frustrating things about her to me that she had this massive safety net that most single parents in her position don't have yet she still thinks she had the toughest time anyone has ever had, and she's clearly aware she had it and how lucky that makes her because she actively lies in so many versions of the story to make out that she didn't have it.

 

[ChocolateMuffin]

That man has big potato energy today

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4. Smilies ✅️

 

[Penelope_Ghent]

Is this a smoosh?
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Is that worms in a bap?

 

[WTFDidIJustSee]

I don't actually think there was anything wrong with her resigning if it didn't fit round SB like she said, and I don't think that alone would have been embarrassing for her dad, it's all the rest of the drama that apparently went along with it.

Plus by her own admission she had involved parents and SB's dad so in her specific situation I do think she could have avoided a lot of the problems she found herself having if she'd planned it better even if the arrangement wasn't sustainable long term. This is one of the most frustrating things about her to me that she had this massive safety net that most single parents in her position don't have yet she still thinks she had the toughest time anyone has ever had, and she's clearly aware she had it and how lucky that makes her because she actively lies in so many versions of the story to make out that she didn't have it.

That’s what I was attempting to say, by comparison, but didn’t phrase it properly because my Adderall is wearing off

Is that worms in a bap?

Looks like some of the parasites I studied in my final year, vom.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

That’s what I was attempting to say, by comparison, but didn’t phrase it properly because my Adderall is wearing off



Looks like some of the parasites I studied in my final year, vom.

I'm dosed up on hay fever medication because everyone in my immediate radius appears to have decided today is peak lawn mowing day so I am also not completely with it

 

[Spooons]

This has just reminded me of the benefit gig that she was asked to do for Ukraine! Can you imagine Jack catering for paying guests?!

That chef is now hosting a Poland vs Ukraine football friendly fundraiser …. Instead??!

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

She's back. And cooking.

Oh do duck off
Sorry Manc

 

[Smeghead]

And all the chairs lined up

And someone declared it the best ever and she will be fit to burst from her amazing meal

 

[KebabGirl]

I'm just imagining a party in the style of Ross - our titular character wearing a label that says 'Dr Monroe "Jack"' while the guests sit on the folding chairs listening to the 12 minute speech delivered on tip toes.
Hi, I'm Jack Monroe. Author, campaigner, cook and former food bank user....

 

[ChickenPorridge]

Oh nooo Jack, you're doing it again! Acting like cooking for your OH and family is a painstakingly awful task that falls on your shoulders and your shoulders alone despite the fact that you absolutely offered to do it. No doubt you'll just eat a Ryvita while they dine because you don't have the energy left to lift a fork. Did you learn nothing from your last relationship?

Also, the halcyon early days of dating? they've only been going out 5 minutes! (I still don't believe OH exists, they were invented the second she found out LJC was seeing someone )

 

[HotesTilaire]

Ah lol this reminds me of DKL Jack in the second week where she suddenly started larping like she was a live telly veteran, flinging TV parlance around and staying up half the night reading WW2 recipes

To the Frau up thread whose sister was asking why Jack fucks up every single point she tries to make: it’s because her whole persona is based on something she is not. If I had a severe convulsion and suddenly decided to larp as a quantum physics professor with Cherokee heritage, I too would duck up at every point because it’s something I’m not. HOWEVER, I would hope that after 10 years of immersing myself in quantum physics and Cherokee culture I would at least have picked up enough of those things that I wouldn’t insult physicists and the Cherokee Nation every time I opened my mouth? So it just shows how unwilling Jack is to listen to and learn from others’ lived experience.

To be honest Fraus I’m still wOw at Jack’s claim that she stopped recommending people buy and use Basic ranges 8 years ago?? That’s literally her USP, the long promised VBI is based on it, what’s she going to do now?

Also her claim that a weekend in Venice has changed her entire cooking philosophy and she’s now going to use fewer ingredients as in classic Italian cuisine? Whilst it’s nice that she’s no longer going to recommend overengineered slop with a million and one wacky ingredients, the challenge with only using 4 /5 ingredients and really letting them sing is you need those ingredients to be of the finest quality and you need proper chef skills, or a real cultural heritage, to treat those ingredients properly to bring out the best in them. In the kindest possible way, this is not really Jack’s skill set.

I too really wanna know the origin of TD’s beef with Jack! Go TD!!

She contradicts herself all the bloody time. If it wasn’t for the occasional hat and gifted vienetta headwear, I’d have lef5 ages ago (I wouldn’t)
The last time she was wanging on about only using a few ingredients she was calling every bloody dish “five ingredient tomato, anchovy, feta and kiblisi toast with egg” or what ever then listing the 7-8 ingredients needed to make it. Or making ridiculous “one ingredient mushroom soup” which contained mushrooms and er, water.
Like, I love an easy recipe but the classic maverick “solving a problem that didn’t exist, with an idea nobody likes” Monroe school of slop is not akin to excellent Italian nonna or Greek Yaya recipes honed down the generations based on good local produce (all counties and nans are interchangeable)

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

Must be a lot deleted!!

60,000+ deletes

 

[Pavlova]

That chef is now hosting a Poland vs Ukraine football friendly fundraiser …. Instead??!

He will if he knows what's good for him and his 500 guests (without Jacksie).

 

[Smeghead]

I'm just imagining a party in the style of Ross - our titular character wearing a label that says 'Dr Monroe "Jack"' while the guests sit on the folding chairs listening to the 12 minute speech delivered on tip toes.
Hi, I'm Jack Monroe. Author, campaigner, cook and former food bank user....

How’s work been Jack?
Cue half hour monologue about 100 hour weeks, no money, bringing the Tories down, saving for Forever home, won’t stop until everyone in the world can eat etc etc

 

[Nottonightbabe]

And someone declared it the best ever and she will be fit to burst from her amazing meal

But then - she greedily snaffled the last of the pudding from the kitchen, while everyone was playing Monopoly. And now she is EXHAUSTED!

 

[Onestorytoomany]

The first year I hosted Christmas Dinner (I was 26) I decided to have 12 adults plus 4 kids over. Thank duck for slow cookers and steamers. Never again though

I am quite a chilled cook. I never really get in a flap, no matter what I am cooking. I just deal with it. That being said I couldn't handle a high end working kitchen with the bossiness of the head chef. They would get a pan to the head.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Jack when OH asks what's for dinner:

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Fresh lemons?? Nah, she'll be pulling out her ancient Jif bottle for the occasion.