Jack Monroe #335 Boob, I guess

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Calm down hun, noone's making anyone buy Lurpak 🙄.

On the subject of shoplifters, all the people I have ever come across who have engaged in this haven't stolen because they need the item in question. Far more likely that someone will steal something of a reasonable value, to sell on for half price and earn some money. Top things tend to be steaks, Yankee candles, make up, face creams, perfumes. Not saying that people don't steal basic items they need, but most shoplifters aren't running out with a couple loaves of Hovis 🤷
 
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According to my Big Maths 2016 was 8 years ago. Yet Jack claims to have waited 10 years to get Content. As she's medically incapable of lying and FORENSIC about facts, I feel very confused.
She's constipated more like....
 
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Will she literally just say she’s worked everywhere and anywhere to try and seem legit, ffs.

and this is so so far behind but I’ve had to grunk for so long to get here, the best bit of Thursday Murder Club for me was when they thought Ashford station must have a few decent shops being international and everything and i shared the disappointment at how crap it is!
 
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I made a Pumble. Full (long) review below.

First of all, I apologise for the quality of my photos. Unlike Jack, I did not want to make this during daylight hours for the natural light. Please leave me and my obese cat alone.

Lest we forget, this is a pumble:

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Jack says:

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The published recipe is for pear pumble (this will become interesting later). Jack claims this is good for kids. I am not a mother, but I don't think so - when I was a kid I liked mixing things and decorating things, and the pumble involves neither of these skills, AND requires you to finely slice ingredients. Just make some brownies or cookies or something FFS.

I assembled my ingredients...

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...and got to work.

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We're off to a bad start. This is a very confusing direction. I took out an old loaf tin and hoped for the best.

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Thank yoi for your forensic attention to detail, Jack.

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I sliced my pears. It did not take long. In fact, it took me longer to read that paragraph, which is mostly Jack showing off about knowing something a bit sciencey, than it did to follow the step.

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My pears looked...large. I sliced them as directed, but I felt that small chunks would make more sense? This does not look like it will be particularly easy to serve and eat. But who am I to question a literal food expert?

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I am nothing if not forensic, so I used proper measuring spoons:

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There was no instruction to stir things round a bit, so I ended up with my top layer of pears looking like this:

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Despite my concerns about excessive cinnamon, I put the pears into the oven and continued.

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I am not a beach music festival, so I do not own any plastic shot glasses. I do have some cookie cutters though, including Cable favourites like horses, dinosaurs, and bunnies (RIP):

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Neither milk nor oil appear in the meticulous, forensic list of ingredients. I had oil but not milk so I did my best, not wanting flaccid, pale horses (no good for béchamel).

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And then I anxiously waited for it to come out of the oven.

Finally, it was time. My pears looked caramelised and delicious:

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...no wait, that's just the cinnamon.

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My pears had not softened all that much - they still had far more bite than you'd want from a crumble filling. But it was pumble time.

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Um.

How horrendously tit does that look?

Jack does not make any serving suggestions, but I accompanied my pumble with some homemade ice cream. This way I would be sure something on the plate tasted good. Plus, it's my ratafia (a Catalan licor) ice cream, and I figured alcohol might help the pumble-munching process.

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It was...not great. The pastry tasted like, well, pastry. Because it was not baked like a pie, the pastry had not absorbed any fruity flavour. The pear skin meant there was no way the pears would soften to a crumble filling texture. The top layer of pears was overspiced; the rest were bland. The size of the slices made it awkward to eat. It wouldn't make you hurl, but it's just a bad dish.

My boyfriend said it was the best thing he'd ever eaten and sent photos to his friends' whatsapp group was perplexed. I told him it was a typical English dessert (sorry English Frauen) and he looked unimpressed. He politely ate his portion. Neither of us wanted seconds.

The ice cream? Superb.

Let's take another look at the original:

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As you can clearly see, Jack has put a rim of raw pastry on her pie dish and baked it like that - not mentioned in the recipe.

She also names this as BANOFFEE pumble. Not pear. I wonder if she ever actually made the pear pumble. No photos of it exist. There are major structural issues due to the sliced, not diced, pears. It's a really bad recipe.

So how does the SAME photo go from Banoffee Pumble on Jack's Insta to Pear Pumble on her blog a day later? That, my friends, is a mystery...could pears be cheaper to price? Easier to write up? Is she just a big old lying liar who lies?

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SHAN'T.

Pretty sure those “pale horses” are Peppa Pigs! Loved your review, prepare yourself for a DKL invite.
 
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Why does she get off on actively trying to make the lives of supermarket workers harder? It’s not the first time she’s advocated for this kind of foolishness.
 
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"Granny Jack, Granny Jack what did you do during the great unrest? " "I stoked the fires of Middle Class discontent and faux concern little one and encouraged rather futile acts of civil disobedience" " oh wow Granny Jack! But why don't they tell us that in history class?"
 
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As an ex banker Frau, we never needed a crime ref for a stolen card. We just marked it as “lost or stolen” which blocked the card and reissued a new one.
Yes that was my experience too back in my banking days and when I've lost cards myself.
 
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Why does she get off on actively trying to make the lives of supermarket workers harder? It’s not the first time she’s advocated for this kind of foolishness.
This. It’s not any “big greedy bosses” that have to put up those signs or actually approach people acting strange or shop lifting. Not one of those people who own these supermarkets will give a damn if one thing is stolen from a store but it could cause harm to shop workers who have to constantly deal with people who do.
 
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Oh my days, if Jack starts stealing tit to get her face in the paper, I shall howl!

Go on, Jack, steal that butter!
 
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Your regular reminder that if you see someone stealing a large net and heading in the direction of the crappy bungalow, thank god you’re not so desperate for cashos that you’d risk a pumble attacks and unearthly honks to capture Jack before she starts biting people.
 
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