Jack Monroe #335 Boob, I guess

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The sideboard shots get worse every time you look at them. Her eyes follow you round the room.
 
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Oooh, ninnies! Listening to Radio 4 right now talking about the cost of living crisis and an expert discussing CANNED BEANS said that whole beans pretty much cost the same, steel has gone up in price by 200% and the can itself has gone up by 50%!!!!

They are all up in Jack’s niche - except that they aren’t coz she’s not mentioned this once (has she? Happy to be corrected!)

How will the Tin Can Cook frame cans becoming too expensive for us poors? Will she start recommending (prepares to faint….) fresh food?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, I feel like all I do is think about the price of Heinz beans when I’m in the supermarket. I can’t believe the price of them and I’m glad others are taking note! 🫣

i don’t think chickpeas and other beans/pulses have risen as much tbf. I’m a regular buyer.
 
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Did anyone manage to get through that badly overwritten bollocks? It really sucks of Jack having to meet a word quota

If this diatribe of ill-informed pointlessness ever gets published, which I doubt, it is destined to languish, sadly, gently, forlornly on shelves of well-meaning left-leaning book suppliers across the nation, situated in sad comradeship, and nestling woefully, gently, sadly next to the book by that penny dreadful woman. The book that gave Penny ptsd because reviews were tit.

It will not be a surprise best seller, It will not be a talking point at dinner parties, It will not make the display tables in Foyles or Waterstones, It will end up lounging damply in soggy cardboard boxes in the shifty bungalow's garage as Jack sporadically makes attempts to offload them.
She's always missing deadlines to so even with a generous estimation the information it contains will be about 10 years out of date.

That's a strange timescale to sell. Even if it was well written, it's too recent for readers who are interested in political/social history and irrelevant for those interest in current affairs, and her career/life aren't interesting or notable enough for a memoir.
 
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I also read somewhere that Martina Cole is another v popular author in women's prisons. She's ace although you need a strong stomach for some of the violent bits. Also Mo Hayder.

Anyway, with Jack, she's definitely got a little circle of regular detractors on Twitter now hasn't she? I find it very reassuring. It's no longer a flying monkeys circle only.
Nasty piece of work is MC. Can’t say more 🔺 but I know someone who had an interaction with her and her family years ago. NASTY people
 
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Blimey even Vlad's had enough our fave smol pixie today...Patreon anyone?
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I've got 8 pages ahead of me so this may have already been said but you don't get to bash someone for critiquing something you haven't written yet whilst listing all the things you claim it will be. Why should you toot your own horn when none of this supposedly detailed and meticulous work has been done?

You don't get to point at some highlighted research in folders and go 'look!' Yeah, what? What am I looking at? Boob, I guess.
 
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Honestly, I feel like all I do is think about the price of Heinz beans when I’m in the supermarket. I can’t believe the price of them and I’m glad others are taking note! 🫣

i don’t think chickpeas and other beans/pulses have risen as much tbf. I’m a regular buyer.
Fuel prices will also affect the cost of all pre-cooked foods. Is it going to be cheaper to buy ready meals that need little energy to reheat or fresh food that needs more cooking at home? We are eating things like bulgar wheat or couscous salad - the grains don't take long to boil and can be bulked out with all sorts of cold foods. I do lentils with soup in the pressure cooker and curry with canned chick peas and frozen veg. Cheap packet noodles are v economical to cook and lovely with spring onion, fresh chili, fried egg. I'm going to buy an airfryer soon as I've heard good things.
Sorry to derail. I'm just wondering if Jack will read the room/country and rise to the occasion? I'm not really, of course she won't, she profits from poverty as Lee Anderson right said.
 
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