Jack Monroe #389 She's like Boris but with worse hair

[ElbiePickle]

I’ve just been through her recipes and these are the individual items named she apparently considers a “small number of ingredients”-

chicken, chicken liver, black pudding, blue cheese, lasagna (sheets), broccoli, cabbage, onions, leeks, crab, macaroni, chickpeas, lentils, potatoes, bananas, eggs, carrots, cauliflower, spinach, apples, tomatoes, Greek cheese, peas, bacon, radishes, risotto rice, Gruyère, pate, kidney beans, gram flour, yellow split peas, salmon, white fish, rice, ginger, water chestnuts, mushrooms, prunes, mackerel, anchovy, chestnut, squash, parsnips, sweet potatoes, courgettes, black beans, peanuts, oats, lemons, raspberries, pears, white beans, tuna, green beans, lemon, yoghurt, pineapple.

And yet that £18 performative Asda shop the other day was originally tweeted as "this is feeding 3 ppl for a week" - until she was called out and admitted it would be supplemented from her store cupboard. Sure, we could probably all make the items in the £18 shop stretch to 42 meals or whatever it was, if we all had a massive stock of other ingredients at our disposal!!

On a different note, why does she always have to be such a rude witch, WHY?? She is just so insufferably nasty to anyone who isn't simply patting her on the head for something as inane as writing out a list of recipe titles, or giving her sympathy for whichever trauma or ailment she's suffering today - I say that as someone who's been through a lot of trauma myself and has a lot of chronic medical issues - she uses them to gain sympathy and deflect all criticism. It's disgusting. She's disgusting!

Her nastiness is so far away from how my own brain works. It seems so strange and weird to me that someone could just treat other people like that without a second thought, and more to the point, could continue the grift for as long as she has with apparently no shame. Is it narcissism? I've learned so much from the Fraus here about NPD (narc rage, DARVO etc), it's so interesting watching her unravel. I grew up with a father who had untreated BPD and have since been diagnosed with it myself, though it's the 'quiet' kind. I see a lot of similar behaviours in her but I hadn't really read much about NPD before the last few weeks. It's absolutely fascinating in a weird morbid kind of way and you've all made me read up about something I didn't know a lot about, so thanks for the education mithering ninnies, much appreciated!

 

[Orphan_Black]

Why doesn't she use twitter circle more effectively. If I was her I would choose 150 of the most honest tweeters and check tweets with them before posting en masse.
The circle surely would have said the bedroom looks like it's from a Last of the Summer wine set and that her recipes sounded like they would look like ebola if it was food.

Her Comments Club only compliment all her decisions. They'd never insult their Qween.

 

[PoorPatrol]

I usually eat a fair amount of meat but the phrase “meaty flurry” may have put me off for quite a while

I’m thinking bollock sausages softly, gently, folded through a McFlurry?

 

[GrannyOgg]

Yikes . I don't want to give that person much publicity here - they love it - but I think they are doing Jack more harm than good online. Jack should do a Mark Lawyer on them imo.

Both they and the squig who may or may not actually be a sock ripped into Molly last night.

 

[Nurseali]

Her Comments Club only compliment all her decisions. They'd never insult their Qween.

As soon as I hit send I realised she loves the set up exactly as it is.

 

[Orphan_Black]

I’m thinking bollock sausages softly, gently, folded through a McFlurry?

Is she stealing another recipe from THAT man. He did swirl up those nuggets.

(The kids saying they'd still eat nuggets as JO's soul dies a little will always be hilarious.)

 

[Jelly Bean]

Looking forward to what poverty cosplay scammer Jack Monroe has to say about her flying monkeys directly advocating physical torture methods because someone has dared question something their lord and master said.

bleeping disgusting.

Apparently it is 'dark humour'
Jack is tagged into that conversation too.

 

[Clapster1]

I'm playing catch-up (again!) so may find it on my way through but did anyone catch the reply to the ParkingGuy (the one he said was libellous) that has now been deleted?

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

I'm playing catch-up (again!) so may find it on my way through but did anyone catch the reply to the ParkingGuy (the one he said was libellous) that has now been deleted?

This one? Caught, yes.

Edit: not this one, but this has been deleted.

 

[SpudYouHate]

Probably not permitted here, so pls delete if necessary, but looking at LT, it seems to me that the two have a lot more in common than just their stories of poverty. Like a lot of contradictions and stuff not ringing true. Is LT Jack's mentor/ role model in ALL ways, possibly?
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Both have 'Bootstrap' in their book titles; both come from middle-class backgrounds and have been criticised for producing poverty porn; both have monetised their situation - so many similarities.

Indeed. And following the foam-bullet-induced eye-trauma LT suffered (not doubting that) her descriptions/ side effects of being rendered monocular struck me (also fairly recently monocular) as being absolute Jack-style BS, to boot(strap).

 

[TurnedUpInTipp]

I’m playing the Jack Monroe Recipe game where the recipe is the first three things you see in your fridge plus the last thing you ate or drank. Mine is Cheese, Bacon and Orange Juice Tea.

Smoked Salmon, Gulab Juman, Cashel Blue and Diet Coke..
Christ.

 

[SpudYouHate]

90% vegan

This reminds me why I'll eat vegetarian rather than deal in freezer meat.

 

[GrannyOgg]

This one? Caught, yes.

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I could be wrong but I think that’s its The other insulted squig who said they’d been libelled. The one she accused of harassing her for years.

 

[SpudYouHate]

The pig and prawn prolapse has done it for me.
I’m getting on a bit, but, in my entire life I have never seen anything as nauseating as that. Were those sausages cooked. She’s doing it on purpose, she can’t really think anyone with taste buds could eat that. The thought of it sliding down my throat is making me feel really sick.

The anus radishes, the pig and prawn prolapse, and NOW the Spawn of Satan 'Lasagne'.
I just can't.

In gravy or jelly? Would you rinse the gravy off first?

That's the best bit!

 

[Switchstreetz]

Isn't that photo from last summer? What's with the fisher price phone in the background? The way she infantilises that kid is awful.

That's the phone she uses to call her lawyer when the other 2 have been confiscated by big Dave are charging in the hall

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

I could be wrong but I think that’s its The other insulted squig who said they’d been libelled. The one she accused of harassing her for years.

I've got twitter notifications switched off ATM so not fully following. I'll scan for more deletes.

 

[GrannyOgg]

I've got twitter notifications switched off ATM so not fully following. I'll scan for more deletes.

I’ve probably got it completely wrong. I often do

 

[Justacatindisguise]

I’m playing the Jack Monroe Recipe game where the recipe is the first three things you see in your fridge plus the last thing you ate or drank. Mine is Cheese, Bacon and Orange Juice Tea.

Strawberry, mustard and butter coffee.

 

[Walkdengirl]

She doesn't even acknowledge how she has 'leftovers' in her stockpile of food after only spending £20 or less on shopping a week. I hate all the performative media pieces that do these food challenges, but the one consensus is that you have to scrape by with nothing left over at the end, and no room for extra treats. £20 a week for food is doable, but not in the long term etc etc.

Jack though? Jack feeds herself, a growing 'teen' and a hard working labourer on just £20 a week, with enough to keep her stock cupboards full too. She has so much from her measly investment that she can write page after page of awful concoctions.

It's all a load of bollocks (sausages).

When does she top up her store cupboard? You can't eat out of it indefinitely, it will have an end. I used to buy one store cupboard item a week (or more of I had spare cash). But I've only ever really seen these performative 20 quid top up shops.

(Yes I know she gets ocado shops, or stuff from the co op), it just pisses me off that people believe her.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

I’ve probably got it completely wrong. I often do

Must be this

I'll pull my socks up and start following things shortly.