Jack Monroe #343 A heavy dose of chickpea and loathing
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Ninnies, I’ve become a VIP! I’d like to thank Jack Monroe, without whom this would never have been possible, and an honorable mention to Patron Saint of Tattle Sali Hughes for sending me here in the first place.
I’d most of all like to thank all you mitherers for being the funniest, cleverest, most interesting, creative, empathetic and glorious bunch of people in the best corner of the internet ever. Even when Jack is being insufferable (ie almost daily), being here is such a joy.
I’d most of all like to thank all you mitherers for being the funniest, cleverest, most interesting, creative, empathetic and glorious bunch of people in the best corner of the internet ever. Even when Jack is being insufferable (ie almost daily), being here is such a joy.
It doesn’t stop her from claiming to have a degree though, on her dating profile and on old blogs I think? something about bar work not being the best use of her degreeOnly achieving 4.5 would have been a blow to the ego, but now she uses the fact as a badge to wear, proof of what a 'struggle' her childhood was. Poor disadvantaged Jack Monroe...
Jack leaving home after failing her GCSEs is something that she has repeated said for her entire career, from that very first Xanthe Clay interview to her appearance on BBC radio this year, where apparently she lived in a multicultural flatshare: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...rom-writer-and-poverty-campaigner-jack-monroe
The article also contains the truest sentence ever written about Jack by a journalist:
The article also contains the truest sentence ever written about Jack by a journalist:
Well well well. Say dissolved on 26/7/22.
Bet she doesn’t mention it. Now she can grift to her hearts content I assume ?
The Trussell Fund t shirt money came in handy then ?
I agree with this, I literally came from a poor family, yet despite it all I hold no ill will to my family or expect everything to be handed to me on a plate. I am also content ( for the most part) with the life I have. I wouldn't trade lives with her for all the money in the world. She has a bad attitude to life and in her relationships.I’ve always taken it to be that the reason Jack had a not very close relationship with her parents (which I also genuinely believe has been the case) is entirely because of her and her attitude. Her parents sound like they could have tried, and pushed for a relationship but Jack was the type to create a rift of her own making and push them away, all the while feeling sorry for herself. To me this explains the seeming inconsistencies around that relationship. All the people that ask why didn’t she ask her parents for help, to me it adds up. She would stubbornly not tell them a thing and rather be the main character in her poverty drama. But of course, as per the Pulp song, it was never really that bad for her as she could call her dad and get bailed out anytimeWith everything we know about Jack it makes a lot of sense to me.
I’m from a very working class not well off family but had a friend from a middle class family very similar to how I imagine Jack being for most of her teenage/young adult life. At least subconsciously wanting to create friction in her frictionless life. I think the GCSEs are a bit of this too. She had everything going for her, but a deep down desire to be a duck up. She still does it now in fairness.
I think there’s some people born into comfortable lives that just can’t appreciate it.
This is wonderful way to end the week. Jack getting her arse handed to her by grown ups who know what they're talking about.
Even more lovely that some are blue ticks!
Yes, covered during the last thread (Or maybe the start of this one?)
so, she was poking around her flatmates' food then? can't say that surprises me
Crikey, she's got a massive bee in her bonnet today, and it looks like we aren't the only ones who have noticed. Enter SDA to the rescue (if she actually responds to his texts)
You weren't raised Greek, Jack. My dad is Italian but I don't claim to be raised Italian. You're a middle class, white English girl. This is it, the hill I will die on. Fight me.
Does anyone own Tin Can Cook? Because I can only see the ingredients list for this recipe online, not the method, and I am dying to read it all.
Remember the soup made from a tin of soup? We have something even better:
Remember the soup made from a tin of soup? We have something even better:
And it’s not like she’s really adding any different flavours, spices or depth to it?!
So she can wash her beans but not her hands? Okay.
So much for being frugal...
I'm intrigued to know the circumstances of Jack leaving home at 16. It does sound at odds with her upbringing and family unit. You can't hold a tenancy under the age of 18 either, someone has to hold it on your behalf, so who were these flatmates I wonder?
There was an allegation of abuse perpetrated by a foster child towards Jack wasn't there? I wonder if the moving out was around that time. It would suggest there was some unrest going on at home for her to move out at that age.
There’s so much wrong with this… whoever commissioned, edited, gave the go ahead to this bilge needs to have a long hard look at themselves. It’s baffling
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