Thanks so much for setting up the new thread
@BeautifulTrauma!
Someone commented on the last thread (think it might have been
@Blurp?) that Jack has absolutely no concept of what normal working people might want to cook and what ingredients they might have to hand, and it got me thinking that this is precisely the problem!
Given that Jack is younger than me and has been in the public eye for what feels like an eternity, her timeline is essentially home with parents > well-paid fire service job > voluntarily leave said job > brief brush with poverty and alleged sex work > burgeoning "media"/ grifting career (approx 8 years, so since age 24).
I was thinking on this as I was making dinner (no washed beans or coconut milk in sight) and I thought I'd Google Allegra McEvedy (Jack's ex), and it turns out she's a private-school-educated doctor's daughter who part owns bloody Leon and net worth estimated in the tens of millions. Jack and her son lived with her for the years they were together, so she presumably had zero outgoings then, and now she lives off her TV exec partner. Maybe we can add "sugar baby" to her list of employment?
This is the real problem, I think. She's so DESPERATE to be seen as the victim that she can't resist talking about how maple syrup, or indeed basic seasoning, is "FANCY" but it just shows how madly out of touch she is. She hasn't been poor for nearly a decade. Things have changed in that time. I volunteer weekly at my local foodbank and I'm always struck by the increasingly dehumanising process of seeking welfare and the Kafka-esque nature of the system. Jack is lucky to not have experienced this: I'm not saying it doesn't have lasting traumatic effects to be poor, but she's long out of that hell and she really needs to start acknowledging it.