Jack Monroe #424 She’s as Greek as Prince William

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ForgettyBetty

I'm not sure that she mixed up the two payments, although she might have. The other frau theory is that she bragged 10,000 profits when it was sales, and couldn't bring herself to admit 1) her maffs mistake 2) the success rate being 1/5 of what she had claimed. So when patreon money came in she used that to pay tt.
That possibly left her with the problem of having to conceal the fact that patreon was bringing in a 5-figure sum. (The Feb/March payouts might have been extra big though, if a proportion of new subscribers paid the year)
Just some breakfast thoughts
 
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TheCat'sMother

You are so right. Jamie likes & understands food, & what is delicious & good for you.

He's a natural on screen & ad libs with really interesting tips all the way through.

Unlike the Slopmeister.
 
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Veronicaaa

Not me thinking some dude called Anónimo had donated multiple times.

https://giphy.com/mEtSQlxqBtWWA
 
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Observ@h

I absolutely love the Jan episodes, especially the later ones. When they spend ages teaching Dwight that women are just normal people, then they get to the meeting and Pam says, in horror, “It’s Jan! Forget everything we just told you.”
 
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That Forensic Man

I thought her whole shtick was that she couldn't afford it due to grinding poverty, not that it was about saving pennies for years to buy expensive hats
Really told on herself there, I reckon she just carelessly spunks all her money on expensive shit every month and then ends up with nothing to live on, so feels justified in pretending to be poor because it's a long slog until the next patreon cash drops.
 
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Veronicaaa

The only thing she resents spending money on (other than her son) is food. She's good to herself in every other way.
 
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Captainmouse

Veronicaaa said:
The only thing she resents spending money on (other than her son) is food. She's good to herself in every other way.
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Naah she uses Ocado, deliveroo/just eat etc. we’ve seen the expensive food. She was talking about a particular jam, (can’t remember the flavour) I looked it up, 7-8squid a jar! All those herbs spices, all those dried goods, every type of pasta. The Charlie bighams containers, the gu ramekins. The cheap slop goes in the bin, no way she eats that, it’s all cosplay
 
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That Forensic Man

I'm convinced she doesn't actually eat the slop and anything she produces for 'work' goes in the bin.
Also thinking about this I remember there was a spenny pre-made soup that looked suspiciously like one of her dishes, might explain why we're finding so many of her recipe photos contain ingredients that aren't in them, inexplicable kidney beans and mushrooms the wrong size, things chopped instead of sliced etc.
It's because anything that looks vile (website photos) is hers and anything that looks ok or even nice (book photos) just isn't (far beyond being explained by them having been professionally photographed).

Beyond all of the grifting etc. she's an actual cookery fraud as well. The slopalong has been a massive eye opener for me as I'd not really looked at her recipes closely, they're truly shocking.
The book recipes having ingredients DOUBLED over the website to serve the same 2 people is a smoking gun in my opinion, just needs some further scrutiny. I do wonder why so many website recipes were lost due to 'technical issues', she's got extensive form for deleting tweets so what's going on there.
 
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Helatruralhome

Saw this and wondered if one of her fans will gift this to her?

The Joy of Writing a Great Cookbook: How to Share Your Passion for Cooking from Idea to Published Book to Marketing It Like a Bestseller Amazon product
 
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Saltfish84

Morning all, procrastinating like mad today so obvs I am here.

Seen some more people aghast and the Scam Cook on Twitter this morning. 🫢
 
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maytoseptember

Remember the fish pie she “made for SB” with piped mashed potato on top? There’s no way Jack her ever piped mashed potato in her life. Someone in the cabal managed to figure out exactly which ready meal she’d painstakingly decanted into a ceramic dish.

And then there were the Waitrose parmentier potatoes she tried to pass off as her own.

The sheer brass neck! Don’t know how she sleeps at night, truly.
 
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Onestorytoomany

Its all going a bit to shot for her at the minute. That book at the beginning of lockdown barely gets mentioned at all now. It may as wellvnot even exist. I can see this other one going the same way. People are already getting fed up with having to cut back to such extremes never mind getting a book telling them how to live boiling on soap ends to make sludgy smelly shower gel, or use hair from their hair brushes to stuff blankets and pillows.

Most people just want to be able to heat their homes and feed themselves without having to take out massive loans on top for their wages.
 
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colouredlines

I think this is it exactly. I know some people think she's sitting on a secret fortune, but it really seems like she's actually just terrible with money and spunks it up the wall the second she gets it.

That's what led to the original Poverty, and it's what's led to every subsequent tip jar rattle over the years. She has no concept of saving and her idea of investment is buying designer clothes. She raised 68k in her Kickstarter, and "came out as skint" a year later. Her panicked mega-beg at the start of covid was clearly someone with a grand total of 0p tucked away.

It's interesting that she has never once acknowledged this, and indeed claims to be good with money.
 
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Saltfish84

I would love to see the receipts for this.

I’ve never piped mash in my life, and I can cook, but why would you bother?
 
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