Since it's pretty easy and quick to put together an e-book of previously published material, it would not surprise me in the least if the publisher's staff are looking through the Slopalong posts to ID those very few recipes that got passing scores.
Jack Monroe #433 Let them eat copies of Thrifty Kitchen
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That big green book shop is selling signed copies for the RRP £19.99So I did a bit more digging on the free e-book that's (allegedly) going to be released along with Thrifty Kitchen. Its formal title is 30 Thrifty Meals for Less (which is redundant, the meals wouldn't be thrifty if they didn't cost less) and according to the press release in the trade magazine, it can be downloaded from the publisher's website and from the Trussell Trust website.
Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen and free e-book signed by Bluebird
Bluebird has netted Thrifty Kitchen from anti-poverty campaigner and "national treasure" Jack Monroe.www.thebookseller.com
But like most things Jack, this doesn't make sense. If the Trussell Trust wants to encourage people to buy Grifty Kitchen so it can be donated toabout 100 unluckyfood banks, why is it giving away a free e-book with at least some of the samesloprecipes?
The promotion at £18.99 is really guilt trippy because out of the people who will actually buy this who's gonna buy themselves a copy for half price on Amazon but then not 'pay it forward' for less then the book 'should' cost. Seems like the RRP was set at that just for this promotion honestly, being the highest RRP so far.
Also there's no info on how well received thr previous 'sponsored' books were, given how this bloke can't give two copies away for free after months of trying. Are they all just sat in the back rooms of food banks somewhere.
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Or she'd start getting snarky with them about how she told them things to get them excited and it's not her fault that didn't work DO THEY WANT HER TO STOP BREATHING
I do have a degree of sympathy for her, certainly more than she'd have for me or anyone else if we were undergoing a similar public humiliation. I'd like to think she'll learn from it but I've thought that a lot since I realised what she was. She deserves everything she's brought down on her head and in the long term she'll be fine. I just feel sad about all the great opportunities she's squandered and wish they'd gone to someone who could have made something of them.
This is the thing isn’t it? She would have no sympathy for someone going through the same and would probably stick the knife in even further. She’s long participated in the circular firing squad of Twitter and made a career out of it. And now she’s probably shocked that it’s turned on her. (Not a death threat BTW, before anyone turns the Essex police celebrity division on me.)
I bet she'd use it as a threat still. She'd just have to come up with more excuses about why SB needs to stop at his dad's and not hers.
She could get a Fuxking job the lazy twit. She’s worked max 6 years of her life (I’m giving her about 3 years more than she deserves here). I don’t consider anything she’s done since she had SB (or left the fire service) a job. She’s dicked about with photography, crafts, writing etc, only something someone from a very privileged position would even contemplate, until she’s landed on her feet with a rich partner to support her and/or grifting from people on the internet.I do wonder what Jack will do next. She can't rattle the jar anymore. I don't think she will be able to maintain a twitter presence, at least not under her real name or the Bootstrap name. I doubt many publications or TV programmes will be booking her for a very long time. Really, what is next?
Is there a chance she could re-evaluate her life and do a course at college (catering maybe), move closer to SB's dad for a fresh start, get a job earning honest money?
Is there a small chance she will look back one day and realise the scale of what she's done and how much she wasted? Not just in a financial sense but also the opportunities, the chance of truly becoming the person Nigella claims she is - 'a force for good in the world' and, most importantly, how much time she wasted arguing on the Internet when she could have been spending it with her child.
She encompasses everything middle class, a working class person or indeed anyone who has felt true poverty wouldn’t be sat day dreaming about what “arts” they could take up to fill that void in their rent payments. They’d be applying for and getting a job…because they would be too proud to be begging and they certainly couldn’t afford to buy the equipment needed to dabble in these hobbies, she’s called work, hoping they might be or get good at some stage in order to fund their life. She’s a lazy privileged little princess who lives like some wealthy spinster in a Brontë novel!
BIB my theory is she's going to ride this out for a bit longer (until the book drops) then rebrand as something else like she did with 'a girl called jack' to 'bootstrap cook'. It'll probably be a Jack Monroe thing but a new brand, and she's softening up the patreons now for when she swaps it and rejigs the rewards etc. The patreon is so lucrative she'd never give it up willingly but I think she's getting to the point where she knows the bootstrap brand is too played out. Note she changed the patreon username from 'onabootstrap' to 'jack monroe' since 2020 (per the archives) so this is set up to an extent. Maybe it will be the vimes boots index brand who knows, she's still banging on about that for a reason compared to most things that are never mentioned again.I do wonder what Jack will do next. She can't rattle the jar anymore. I don't think she will be able to maintain a twitter presence, at least not under her real name or the Bootstrap name. I doubt many publications or TV programmes will be booking her for a very long time. Really, what is next?
Is there a chance she could re-evaluate her life and do a course at college (catering maybe
Is there a small chance she will look back one day and realise the scale of what she's done and how much she wasted? Not just in a financial sense but also the opportunities, the chance of truly becoming the person Nigella claims she is - 'a force for good in the world' and, most importantly, how much time she wasted arguing on the Internet when she could have been spending it with her child.
Perhaps she'll reinvent herself as something to do with bunny boiling or socks. Who can say, what will happen in the blizzard?
As a newish Frau, I decided to review a random early thread or two today. I read part of the one where she was crying about not receiving SEISS during lockdown. Where she actually took a photo of herself fake crying in front of folders labelled with Patreon and Daily Kitchen Live (I’ve seen the photo before but seeing it in context was really appalling). And where she tweeted personal information about SB’s siblings.
I don’t think she’s a master criminal. I do think she’s a thoroughly horrible sociopath who has been given a veneer of competency by MSM and high profile celebrities.
On an entirely unrelated note, vlad has been taking photoshop lessons from Jack.
I don’t think she’s a master criminal. I do think she’s a thoroughly horrible sociopath who has been given a veneer of competency by MSM and high profile celebrities.
On an entirely unrelated note, vlad has been taking photoshop lessons from Jack.
You mean, it wasn’t true that everyone stood up and clapped
I heard they all stood up and chanted "white trash shouldn't breed".You mean, it wasn’t true that everyone stood up and clapped
I’m sure they just shouted “should’ve kept your legs shut”
So they are aiming for sales of 2,000 books (1,000 bought + 1,000 “donated”) by the end of January, i.e. within 3 weeks after publication. Which would push it up the bestseller list, wouldn’t it? So the publisher saves face, and so does Jack. While Jack also gets paid in full.
I mean, it’s a bit dodgy isn’t it ..?
One example: I would think that taking money for her “legal fund” when she wanted to sue that MP would be sailing close to fraud, if not actual fraud. Anyone who donated to her PayPal in the belief that this would go towards Jack’s “fighting fund” might well be able to argue fraud - because they gave the money for a specific purpose and that money has clearly not been used for that purpose.
I think Jack might (possibly) be able to defend this on the grounds that, at the time she collected the money, she wasn’t being dishonest because she genuinely believed she would sue the MP (
), and that argument would probably succeed, on balance, but it’s shaky ground.
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Save money by boiling socks, bunnies and your head in each compartment of the slow cooker
Still pages behind, but I feel like I should apologise for my expression of glee at this week's cancellations. I confess to being petty at times and I do enjoy it when unfortunate things happen to nasty people.
To my mind the grift won't come to an end until people are disabused of the notion that "she does so much good". And I just can't see that happening until she stops being invited to speak on behalf of people she is completely unqualified to represent, on issues where she brings absolutely nothing to the discussion (other than yet another rehash of a mostly made up poverty saga) and until places like The Guardian stop propping her up and lending her credibility. So yes, I am happy she lost those gigs. But I'll try to be less outwardly joyful about it.
May all your chaos wishes come true Fraus!
Hopefully not too much for me to catch up on later.
To my mind the grift won't come to an end until people are disabused of the notion that "she does so much good". And I just can't see that happening until she stops being invited to speak on behalf of people she is completely unqualified to represent, on issues where she brings absolutely nothing to the discussion (other than yet another rehash of a mostly made up poverty saga) and until places like The Guardian stop propping her up and lending her credibility. So yes, I am happy she lost those gigs. But I'll try to be less outwardly joyful about it.
May all your chaos wishes come true Fraus!
Hopefully not too much for me to catch up on later.
Dearheart I completely relate, I actually worry about her mental state quite a lot. I think she’s as manipulative as they come, but the fact that she’s acting so deranged does bother and concern me.
BUT I have been drawn in by narcs in the past and got badly burned, so I’m hardly an expert?
The way I see it, she may genuinely think that she deserves more sympathy than anyone else in the world, that every single bad thing is in no way her fault! In my experience people like that do exist. She will feel entitled to being a victim no matter how much that hurts other people. But in the end she doesn’t, she’s brought this on herself and been given so many opportunities to do the right thing.
So what I’m trying to say is that I’m hoping the people who feel pity for her know that they’re putting themselves out there and she might very well be unable to feel that same empathy to them as they do to her.
I just want slop to be honest
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Let's lighten the mood, Fraus and Herrs?
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But think of the fun we’ll have with them. It’s bound to be even better than Viz Top Tips. Plus the aftermath of Squigs following the advice: ‘Jack, I put a load of ring pulls on my hangers like you suggested & baking trays in my bed. I’m now a sheet, a bedcover and 3 hangers down (total cost £50 but actually £70 with the book) and I have lost half a finger to the hanger trick. I hate to ask but do you have any thrifty tips for how to make plasters or hangers out of scorched bedding & make £70 quickly? Oh and also £400k as my house burned down thanks to all the tumble drier fluff. Thanks so much #BeKind
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