Jack Monroe #434 The price of jam: Will it be £40 by the end of the year?

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Thing is, she doesn’t seem to steal many recipes because most online recipes actually work…maybe she just closes her eyes and points at the page and deletes whatever ingredient it’s on to make it cheaper/slop…
 
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Indicative of believing your every brain fart should be preserved for posterity imo
 
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Who exactly is using the bathroom bin in that household? Is SB putting his used tampons or pads in? Maybe it's all his razors he needs to throw out or his face masks, empty make up bottles etc.
Granted they'll be a few loo rolls he's used the tissue from and maybe a toothpaste tube but she's awful making him clean up after her.
 
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She's nowhere near organised enough to have maintained it, for a start.

But even if she didn't actually imolement it, the worst thing is her trying to humiliate SB online with toilet habits talk...even if he's none the wiser and never saw it, she wrote those specific things down for a reason. And that makes her a massive thwat.
 
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Thing is, she doesn’t seem to steal many recipes because most online recipes actually work…maybe she just closes her eyes and points at the page and deletes whatever ingredient it’s on to make it cheaper/slop…
I think that's definitely one of the reasons, she has notes on cocking about with oil and vinegar in that recipe that sound superficially valid but there's no logic behind it just "it seems ok" or "because cheaper". She also admits she's never had devilled eggs before so she's not going to understand what they're supposed to be, or how her changes would compromise/undermine it, I suppose from a recipe or general cookery/principles viewpoint. Kind if like wearing manky jeans and a T shirt to a black tie do.
She appears to think that if there's a difference between two recipes then you can just use whatever third variant as a substitution (like white vinegar here). When you're going for a headline 10p figure nothing's sacred.
 
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I don’t think I ever saw the anchioade eggs recipe in full before. Leaving out the disgustingness of eating fishy eggs under your duvet (lingering honk, anyone?), it’s just so COMPLICATED! FOUR BOWLS, to make fricking devilled eggs? FOUR? Fishing boiling eggs out of boiling water to put in a bowl of cold water instead of just filling the pan with cold water? A bowl for the shelled eggs, instead of just putting them back into the pan of cold water? Another bowl for the shells? And 10 minutes in boiling water to cook the eggs? They must be like rubber. No wonder she has outbuildings full of crockery, she needs it all to make four fucking devilled eggs!! WHAT IF THE POORS DON’T HAVE FOUR SPARE BOWLS, JACK? How do they make their fishy duvet eggs then, eh? EH?? WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE POORS?

 
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Especially when she's said on multiple times that she knows his teachers and friends follow her social media. Fucking disgusting.
 
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Especially when she's said on multiple times that she knows his teachers and friends follow her social media. Fucking disgusting.
I know. Poo stains and missing the toilet.
She thought this was appropriate to broadcast to the nation about her young son. So many boundaries crossed right there.
What a ghastly parent she portrays herself to be.
 
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Just leaving this excerpt from the Anchoïade recipe here and would remind you that she writes for a living…

 
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Not a lot to add other than I'm still raging about that poor kitten that she caused so much unnecessary suffering to , just for social media attention.
 
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I know. Poo stains and missing the toilet.
She thought this was appropriate to broadcast to the nation about her young son. So many boundaries crossed right there.
What a ghastly parent she portrays herself to be.
I just want to say at this juncture, for any child or SB should they ever read this - these toilet messes are totally normal and nothing to be ashamed of.
 
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I know. Poo stains and missing the toilet.
She thought this was appropriate to broadcast to the nation about her young son. So many boundaries crossed right there.
What a ghastly parent she portrays herself to be.
She's just trying to blame someone else for being the SH1TTER. SB is innocent. Iqbal knows the truth. #Justice4Iqbal.
 
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What is it with her and doing weird arsed fiddly things with tinned fish? And there's always fish oil stained notes too. Surely it would be better to JUST MAKE DEVILLED EGGS but add a sliver of anchovy for taste and decoration for those that like them?!
 
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Just clicked the recipe link. Wtf is 'celestially obscene'? How does that relate devilled eggs?

Even her word salads are pish

Also, lolling at how she costed for a quarter of an onion in that recipe, at 3p.

But the biggest crime of all is the grey/green egg filling that is way to wet of course. Hmmmm grey/green slop on an egg white.
 
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