But it's OK for Jack to exploit foreign poor people because she's one of them. Poor, that is. And foreign, too, what with being nearly an immigrant. Or, she might just be a superior sort of person who deserves the best in life regardless of provenance and exploitation. /s/There's people on Fiverr.com who'll do this kind of semi automation and bot deployment for very little money. Ironically for a so called ethical person like Jack Monroe, many of them are based in poverty ridden places like Bangalore.
How on earth does the “ten minute mackerel end (sp!) mushroom risotto” that includes cup-a-soup and mackerel taste “like the real thing”? I have no idea what “real thing” she’s alluding to here, but it’s DEFINITELY not risotto.According to my notes (I was live texting my reaction to my IRL Frau friend) the mention of mackerel was for mackerel and veg risotto which I just Googled to check if my horrifying mental image was correct and I see that she made it using.....microwave wholegrain basmati and quinoa.....the only source of potential creaminess would be the mushroom flavour cup-a-soup.
Also according to my notes (aneurysm documentation) another suggestion was make bolognese, and then the next day add herb and spices so it becomes goulash (does it?!) and then the next add chocolate and cumin to that so it becomes chilli (DOES IT?!?!)
Aside from the flavour/recipe crap, this method as J describes it = reheating the food several times which is energy wasted as well as potential illness. Whereas the method everyone already uses (eyeroll) is cooking a base of meat*/onion/garlic/tomato then dividing it into various versions = reheat each portion once as you go.According to my notes (I was live texting my reaction to my IRL Frau friend) the mention of mackerel was for mackerel and veg risotto which I just Googled to check if my horrifying mental image was correct and I see that she made it using.....microwave wholegrain basmati and quinoa.....the only source of potential creaminess would be the mushroom flavour cup-a-soup.
Also according to my notes (aneurysm documentation) another suggestion was make bolognese, and then the next day add herb and spices so it becomes goulash (does it?!) and then the next add chocolate and cumin to that so it becomes chilli (DOES IT?!?!)
I believe that was me yesterday that first bought up the monkfish (not in the vomit sense of the word). I was referring a bit vaguely to her stock cupboard inventory before a £20 shop she did, back in April or so: (pics from the same day, but stocktake came first. The TRAUMA)Just listened again to the BBC Radio Scotland thing and I think a couple of things were maybe misheard in real time.
I didn’t hear mention of monkfish at the time and I wanted to check that. She did, however, mention tinned mackerel. (Please, I do lose concentration very easily so I’m happy to be corrected!)
Around 2:33:30 for me? Wow, soooooo nasal. Gross, especially compared with the soothing, dulcet crystal clear accent of the host.Mornings - with Stephen Jardine - BBC Sounds
What does the financial upheaval mean for you? Your money questions answered.www.bbc.co.uk
(too short)
edit: you might need to skip ahead to avoid fungal nail talk. I think she's on at around 3 hrs 2 mins.
This is a crime against food. Someone call the onion police!!According to my notes (I was live texting my reaction to my IRL Frau friend) the mention of mackerel was for mackerel and veg risotto which I just Googled to check if my horrifying mental image was correct and I see that she made it using.....microwave wholegrain basmati and quinoa.....the only source of potential creaminess would be the mushroom flavour cup-a-soup.
Also according to my notes (aneurysm documentation) another suggestion was make bolognese, and then the next day add herb and spices so it becomes goulash (does it?!) and then the next add chocolate and cumin to that so it becomes chilli (DOES IT?!?!)
Haha, I'm such an idiot. I was reading the length of the podcast rather than the time. Maybe I should say I'm TIRED and do a flounce?Around 2:33:30 for me? Wow, soooooo nasal. Gross, especially compared with the soothing, dulcet crystal clear accent of the host.
Why does she make such a fucking drama out of a top up shop? And why is she having to go 5 times round the supermarket if she’s got a list?I believe that was me yesterday that first bought up the monkfish (not in the vomit sense of the word). I was referring a bit vaguely to her stock cupboard inventory before a £20 shop she did, back in April or so: (pics from the same day, but stocktake came first. The TRAUMA)
Completed it. Or Celine has, technically.This is a crime against food. Someone call the onion police!!
Because, dear heartWhy does she make such a fucking drama out of a top up shop? And why is she having to go 5 times round the supermarket if she’s got a list?
Make it make sense.
I had assumed the same - that the £1500 was merely her share of the rent, and that the total was more like £3000.It’s just one little lie amongst the teeming sea of lies, but the idea that she rents a house worth £850k for just £1500 a month has long bugged me. Only one of those figures can be true.
Last year we were renting a not great but not fully shitty 4 bed house in NE England in a very convenient and popular with young families type of area. The house was bought in 2007 for £238k. If sold now I reckon it’d get about £350/375k and the landlord was advertising it for £1500pcm. We knocked him down to £1300 but the tenants after us deffo paid at least £1500.
So I did a bit of forensic Right Moving. Receipts and caveats are spoileres but TL;DR Jimmy Nail.
caveats:
1) I have never been to Southend. I’m not trying to guess where Jack lives or doxx her. I genuinely have no idea where she lives beyond it being inThorpe Bay. If this is atoo far, please say and I’ll delete
2) IIRC, Jack has been in the shitty bungalow 4 or 5 years. Both rental and sales markets have changed hugely in that time, so it may be that £1500 is 2017 prices and £850k is 2022 prices, but still.
The search criteria was initially Thorpe Bay, 3+ bedrooms, £1250-£2000 pcm, no house type (eg flat/house/bungalow) specified. This only brought up 2 hits so I removed the price criteria completely. Still only 3 3+bed properties to rent in all of Thorpe Bay (In my area you’d get hundreds of hits so this strikes me as weird, but maybe TB is not a renty type of place or it’s really small)
All 3 are perfectly lovely and not in any way shitty. I’d be happy to live in any of them if we could afford it. Attached are the three properties with the recent sold prices in the same street overlaid. All cost over £1500pcm to rent and would fetch waaaaay less than £850k to buy.
What’s going on there then?Personally I reckon that the shitty bungalow or the house house she wants is around the 850 mark and she currently pays A LOT more than £1500 rent. That may be her share and LJC is still paying the rest?
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Possibly. I think she moved in just before Covid, when the rental market went absolutely crazy. Coastal areas are in much, much higher demand now because of WFH, and a lot of landlords cashed in by selling their properties, leading to scarcity and higher rents. She probably got extremely lucky and got the place at the 1500-1600 mark that she claims, and perhaps her landlady hasn’t realised she’s paying below average rent.It’s just one little lie amongst the teeming sea of lies, but the idea that she rents a house worth £850k for just £1500 a month has long bugged me. Only one of those figures can be true.
Last year we were renting a not great but not fully shitty 4 bed house in NE England in a very convenient and popular with young families type of area. The house was bought in 2007 for £238k. If sold now I reckon it’d get about £350/375k and the landlord was advertising it for £1500pcm. We knocked him down to £1300 but the tenants after us deffo paid at least £1500.
So I did a bit of forensic Right Moving. Receipts and caveats are spoileres but TL;DR Jimmy Nail.
caveats:
1) I have never been to Southend. I’m not trying to guess where Jack lives or doxx her. I genuinely have no idea where she lives beyond it being inThorpe Bay. If this is atoo far, please say and I’ll delete
2) IIRC, Jack has been in the shitty bungalow 4 or 5 years. Both rental and sales markets have changed hugely in that time, so it may be that £1500 is 2017 prices and £850k is 2022 prices, but still.
The search criteria was initially Thorpe Bay, 3+ bedrooms, £1250-£2000 pcm, no house type (eg flat/house/bungalow) specified. This only brought up 2 hits so I removed the price criteria completely. Still only 3 3+bed properties to rent in all of Thorpe Bay (In my area you’d get hundreds of hits so this strikes me as weird, but maybe TB is not a renty type of place or it’s really small)
All 3 are perfectly lovely and not in any way shitty. I’d be happy to live in any of them if we could afford it. Attached are the three properties with the recent sold prices in the same street overlaid. All cost over £1500pcm to rent and would fetch waaaaay less than £850k to buy.
What’s going on there then?Personally I reckon that the shitty bungalow or the house house she wants is around the 850 mark and she currently pays A LOT more than £1500 rent. That may be her share and LJC is still paying the rest?
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It isn’t is it. And after she gave us her personal origin story (studying at night and living through poverty to pursue her dream of writing for a living) I feel terrible for her that she’s not a better writer.In all honesty I don't think the Sunday Woman article is very good. It's poorly written and focuses more on having a dig at Jack than focusing on the facts. I'm a little disappointed. Molly did a much better job.
Can you imagine being the land lady, all her decorating and humping furniture around plus knowing if try and kick her out for bouncing rent you’ll have half a million deranged squibs hounding you for leaving SB shivering in a bus stop. Bet the place will need fumigation for fleas.Possibly. I think she moved in just before Covid, when the rental market went absolutely crazy. Coastal areas are in much, much higher demand now because of WFH, and a lot of landlords cashed in by selling their properties, leading to scarcity and higher rents. She probably got extremely lucky and got the place at the 1500-1600 mark that she claims, and perhaps her landlady hasn’t realised she’s paying below average rent.
Surely they're unlucky they're delicious ;DLJC!! They’re lucky they’re delicious
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