Geetbo
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To my eternal shame I absolutely still would.
Im going to go and blend a bag of salad and eat it as penance.
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Im going to go and blend a bag of salad and eat it as penance.
HACTUALLY I think you’ll find that the RAF officers said that she was the strongest, bravest and most forensically gifted would-be recruit she’d ever seen, and they badly wanted to recruit her but they knew that The Poors needed her more. Then an evil NCO turned up and said she should’ve kept her legs shut and they wouldn’t admit a bird in traaaaazers. Then Jack PUNCHED him and he fell over!! And then all the RAF officers stood up and clapped.Wtf was the arthritic, asthmatic, crumbly shouldered, mathematically challenged smol pixie expecting?
SeeleyBooth
Active member
A squig summing up how we all feel...
threetintender
Active member
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say, but need to point out that her name is Jack, not Mel.
Mel Donte
Chatty Member
I've found her first recipe! Springtime blondes with green tea frosting. Ingredients include green tea powder, vanilla pods and macadamia nuts.The Blog archive starts in March 2012 and she was posting recipes back then, though posting a lot of other stuff too, the recipes weren’t the focal point.
For anyone who wants to get a quick flavour but not massively commit to a huge dive, if you scroll down almost to the bottom here, you can click on her archives month by month and get a sense of what she was posting at any given time - it shows both the post titles and the opening few lines of each
A Whistlestop Tour Of How To F**k Up Everything
I’m reluctant to use the term ‘living in the public eye’ because I’m not about to seal any deals with Hello magazine just yet, but when your blog gets in excess of 16,000 hits and strangers come up...web.archive.org
Her second recipe was slow-roast tomatoes with kale and roasted beans. She says that it's useful for using up all the kale and tomatoes she's left with from her weekly veg box. This recipe also includes lemon juice from an actual lemon.
Helena Handbasket
Chatty Member
Yes when I was a little poor I always had matcha powder in! Top of the shopping list every week. Same with macadamias. A very cost effective nut and the children love them in a lunchbox! Vanilla pods are known for being very cheap. I usually add saffron and gold powder to my bakes just to really ramp up the unnecessary expense so I can see where she’s saving money.
I do not know what is a ‘roasted bean’ but at least it isn’t rinsed.
Roast tomatoes and kale though. She’s so basic.
ETA: Jack on Masterchef
*Reveals ingredients: kale, tomatoes and (I dunno) some kind of bean. Remember pantry items are also available.
Contestant 1: I’m making a Tuscan bean soup.
Contestant 2: I’m making potato and kale cakes with a bbq beans side.
Jack: I’m making roast kale, roast tomatoes and roast beans.
I do not know what is a ‘roasted bean’ but at least it isn’t rinsed.
Roast tomatoes and kale though. She’s so basic.
ETA: Jack on Masterchef
*Reveals ingredients: kale, tomatoes and (I dunno) some kind of bean. Remember pantry items are also available.
Contestant 1: I’m making a Tuscan bean soup.
Contestant 2: I’m making potato and kale cakes with a bbq beans side.
Jack: I’m making roast kale, roast tomatoes and roast beans.
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colouredlines
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I hope she draws a line under everything and goes back to answering her fans' food questions on Twitter.
Our newer Frauen don't know the simple joys of Hi Jack, what can I do with salt? x or Hi Jack, I hate mushrooms but just bought 10kg of them, any ideas? x
Our newer Frauen don't know the simple joys of Hi Jack, what can I do with salt? x or Hi Jack, I hate mushrooms but just bought 10kg of them, any ideas? x
Valiofthedolls
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More ye olde bollox from yesteryore. 2013 article.
www.mirror.co.uk
“Didn’t tell anyone she was hungry“ from November 2011 to at least December 2012. Even though in that time she told thousands of people including her parents and friends via her blog, by her own admission her mother came round with food, and they spent Christmas Day 2012 at her parents
Took her “18 months to find work” and only then was she able to “feed herself and her son 3 meals a day again”. So from November until May/June 2013? Despite all the jobs (including bar work, a trainee reporter on her local newspaper etc etc all of which she LEFT- apart from the one that fired her for being too nice - and including the one she left to start her self employed craft business). Plus multiple columns and interviews etc.
What I think she means by “took me 18 months to find work” is ‘work that suits my grandiose notions of what I’m entitled to’, because that’s when she got hired to write the weekly ‘Recipes for Life’ guardian column that lasted from July 2013 all the way through to April 2015 and commissioned to write her book.
It’s also unbelievable (in the literal sense of the word) that she resigned from a £27,000 a year job in November 2011 but was in this level of dire straits by Christmas in the following month.
It’s truly incredible that NOBODY in the media EVER did even a modicum of due diligence and research on this lying charlatan. No wonder her lurid pov tales have become increasingly wild and improbable over the years; she’s high on their ineptitude in letting her get away with it. Mateus mate, where are you?
We went hungry in world's seventh-richest nation - it has to stop
Mirror guest columnist Jack Monroe on going hungry and not even being able to give her son a Christmas present
Took her “18 months to find work” and only then was she able to “feed herself and her son 3 meals a day again”. So from November until May/June 2013? Despite all the jobs (including bar work, a trainee reporter on her local newspaper etc etc all of which she LEFT- apart from the one that fired her for being too nice
- and including the one she left to start her self employed craft business). Plus multiple columns and interviews etc.
What I think she means by “took me 18 months to find work” is ‘work that suits my grandiose notions of what I’m entitled to’, because that’s when she got hired to write the weekly ‘Recipes for Life’ guardian column that lasted from July 2013 all the way through to April 2015 and commissioned to write her book.
It’s also unbelievable (in the literal sense of the word) that she resigned from a £27,000 a year job in November 2011 but was in this level of dire straits by Christmas in the following month.
It’s truly incredible that NOBODY in the media EVER did even a modicum of due diligence and research on this lying charlatan. No wonder her lurid pov tales have become increasingly wild and improbable over the years; she’s high on their ineptitude in letting her get away with it. Mateus mate, where are you?
Brian Butterfield
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Helena Handbasket
Chatty Member
Patchwork quilts my arse. I’ve seen her attempt at sewing ave she can do one. Softly, gently, labouriously and with clean hands, PAINSTAKINGLY cutting out hexagons/diamonds/triangles erm no. The fabric cost alone makes sewing for fun a challenge. Making children’s clothes? Lies and more lies. I’ve been sewing for donkeys and my attempts at patchwork are laughable. Fine for me but not for sale. I genuinely do find a lot of my kit in charity shops but I know what I’m looking for. Quilting rulers online are about £15 each. Decent rotary cutters aren’t cheap. Neither is wadding and neither is making/buying bias binding for the edges. Show me one photo of your quilting stash Jack. I see all your lies because I am the HOBBY FRAU!
Potatoes O’Houlihan
Chatty Member
Just seen my sister 
stanning for JM on Twitter. WTF do I do?
Send newlegislationtodivorcesistero's
stanning for JM on Twitter. WTF do I do?Send newlegislationtodivorcesistero's
LadyGarden
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Another Jack shop that still appears to be live ( as in, I can add things to my basket). Looks like it was set up in 2016 to raise money for charity - the Orlando massacre. I wonder how much they saw of the profits what with jack, her ADHD brain and countless areas of income/fundraising.
The potato one is ... well ... dire.
The potato one is ... well ... dire.
FrankReagan
Chatty Member
I guess a wave emoji was quicker than typing ‘please validate my existence and fill my empty soul with virtual attention sustenance’
Nursery staff: Just a reminder, nursery fees are due
Jack: I've already paid them
Nursery staff: Thanks, you're a star
Jack: A star parent?
Nursery staff: Um, sure?
House of Carbonara
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Awwww, thank you! Five years married, chose it myself because Mr HoC was in hospital having surgery (cancer) for the second time. I am very fond of it (the ring AND the husbandThat ring though ♡
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Madonna_Claws
Well-known member
I didn't even realise the writing on her hand *was* a tattoo until I read this 'ere thread. I just thought she'd been writing a shopping list reminder on it. Something like this...
Yeah, and it’s journo ‘code’ for snidely implying that the subject of the interview might be under the influence ofOne thing I have noticed is how many interviewers/journalists comment in their articles about Jack sniffling or having a cold as in the Tîm Adams one in the post here:
https://tattle.life/threads/jack-monroe-412-chiz-on-tiz.34087/post-12096307
Really makes you think
. It used to crop up a lot in NME and Melody Maker interview features back in the 90s 