Jack Monroe #300 Fauxcialist

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Hang on, I thought it was us supposed to be having the aneurysm, not her?!
 
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That whole menu screams look at me I’m a twat. I remember decades ago when I was dating for the first time we used to get rice chips and curry sauce from the takeaway and I still eat that now and then

Like. Fennel loaf with a broccoli jus with mushroom breadcrumbs over some wanky noodles. Get in the bin. Less is more

Herb smoosh. Actually fuck right off. And when you get there fuck of a lot more
 
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She just hates cooking, I think, that’s why it’s stressful for her. Also, drama.

Our dinner tonight is

Roast pork (including crackling)
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Buttered cabbage
Honey and thyme glazed carrots
Apple sauce
Gravy

I’ve also pottered in the garden, done a load of washing, discussed upcoming exams with my daughter, helped OH (sorry) plank some wood, had my parents pop in for coffee and titted about on the internet.

The cooking part of the day was nice and restful, because it’s all repeated and familiar processes and quite a mindful thing. Not a stress. She just hates it and isn’t good at it and makes everything a huge performance instead of getting on with it.
 
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Could she not learn to swim as an adult? Or is this the one single thing in the world that Jack has not completed it mate?

I agree re the family dynamics, and I do feel for Jack as I am sure her childhood was difficult in a lot of ways. Certainly she has described in detail some very traumatic things, and I feel for her. Where my sympathy ends is that at some point one does have to take as much responsibility as one possibly can for one’s own MH, whilst this is certainly not possible for everyone Jack has three therapists on speed dial so she has access to help and therefore she should really be taking responsibility to work through her traumas? Repeating the same harmful behaviours does not help anyone and they end up being passed on to the next generation which is not fair.

Yeah I know. I think it’s a manifestation of the victim hood elevenerifing, like if you’ve ever had a stressful big meal to prepare then Jack has too but hers was much more sEvErE? Either that or she’s trying to be funny. But that would require a sense of humour.
 
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I used to have this a lot as well when I was younger! My mum’s friend who is Italian used to make it for me when she looked after me. She called it pastina and I used to absolutely love it.
I love it my ex husbands aunt made it a lot and he did not do it justice by calling it watery soup even though he loved it as much as I did .

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Small mercies re the ASDA cake I suppose. Touch wood the McFlurry machine isn’t broken ey x
At least Asda provided them with something palatable . Send rennieso
 
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I’m glad you said this, I got the same gut feeling that Mammy is also prone to… overly identifying with her ailments.

I think they both value victimhood highly. I think Mammy also has genuine sympathy, but sometimes wants a piece of the pie herself, but Jack has dialled it up to 11 due to growing up into the modern middle-class oppression politics cult. She doesn’t have actual empathy for the suffering, she wants to be them so she can be more “valid”.
 
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argh, I'm grunking a few pages but sweetie t here's just made me remember that I was gonna get a viennetta today and I completely forgot! I am devastated
 
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No, Jack, what's happened is, either:

A) They've pretended to be full and asked for doggy bags so that, when out of sight, they can softly, gently placed the food in the bin

or

B) Taken home to see if its so bad even the dog till turn its nose up at Sunday Slop
 
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argh, I'm grunking a few pages but sweetie t here's just made me remember that I was gonna get a viennetta today and I completely forgot! I am devastated
Babe, same. Only remembered once I was halfway home from the supermarket.
 
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Can I pretend that this one is taking the piss? Please ... just for 5 minutes? Promise I won't say BUM any more today.

 
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Happy 300 to all the mithering ninnies of the canal. I rarely post as always on perma grunk but agree that this thread had been a lovely break from real life over the past couple of years (not always of course given absolute rubbish Jack comes away with irl).
 
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All I have to say is
poor cunts eating that slop. Phone a takeaway I beg you

Hope you all did lat flows before meeting up in a big group to eat slop
I thought her oven was broken?
 
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its making me think of Rachel’s ‘English trifle’ where they all sneak off to leave the plates in various places
 
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