Jack Monroe #447 Can’t even tell the truth about owning her own book

[WhyYouCry?]

I've said it before and I will say it again, I do think she has a genuine hoarding problem. 🫤

And a spending problem. I used to have a similar issue (thankfully cured!) so I recognise the signs.

 

[munkibrain]

Egg rings.
I used to run a greasy spoon. I used egg rings every day. They were essential to make sure you could get as many eggs on the griddle as possible without them spilling into each other. But that was a business. Individuals and families don't need egg rings, certainly not ones made out of sawn-off baked beans tins.

I quite like making McDonald's esque breakfast muffins and they are very useful for eggs that go into them. But I paid the grand sum of £3 for a pair of legitimate ones that won't cut me.

 

[Clovis]

Ah. Maybe she's getting confused with the time she was head chef at Blackfoot. Or when she was working the grill with Daz at the Harvester.

Or maybe she's getting confused between egg rings and cock rings when she worked at the brothel?

 

[Whiffy McBiffy]

Quite. I technically read 2 books a day, as my autistic child makes me read ‘that’s not my dinosaur’ and ‘ten little pirates’ every single night.

Tell me about it. Greendale? I wrote the Rough Guide

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Wait, so she gave a copy of Grifty Kitchen to Agent Adrian! She better hope he doesn’t actually read it, realise his mistake, then swiftly drop her.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

So there will be four blogs this week then.
How long will that last?
If she manages one this week I'll be amazed.

About as long as this one lasted?

 

[Notaninstamumeither]

What the duck is a gentle resolution?! Given this is her job (I know, I know), that’s a piss poor work target.

161 books, but a cookbook ain’t one.

 

[Shimmering]

Wait, so she gave a copy of Grifty Kitchen to Agent Adrian! She better hope he doesn’t actually read it, realise his mistake, then swiftly drop her.

Has anyone heard from Adrian? I think we need to call in a welfare check in case he tried to make his own egg rings.

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

Read and finish a book every other day?! That is someone with way too much free time on their hands.

It took me a year to finish a book last year because Jack Monroe Tattle has been my fiction of choice since 2020.

 

[skyehigh]

Gutted the mumsnet thread was deleted before I could get there. The more people who's (whose?) eyes are opened to the grift the better - keep those sales down! Mumsnet must have a difference audience to Twitter and Tattle.

I had a look at her Twitter thread and she never seems to respond to anyone else's thread or anything not about herself - she tweets and responds to people in so far as it relates to herself. For someone who lives on Twitter as much as she does, you'd think she might engage with another subject at some points but no.

Also this came up on my Twitter feed

 

[Notaninstamumeither]

Has anyone heard from Adrian? I think we need to call in a welfare check in case he tried to make his own egg rings.

Or, even worse, consumed one of her recipes

 

[MavisBeacon]

I have an acquaintance who posts huge lists of impossible resolutions every year (writing an article every week! Starting a podcast! Learning Japanese!). It's now become a lovely ritual for Mr Beacon and I to FORENSICALLY go through them each NYE to see how he has utterly failed to keep any of them, and place our bets for the coming year on how badly we think he'll do. The guy is also a deluded egoist like our Jack, who utterly resists any suggestions for things that might help or that might be more achievable. It's hilarious.

 

[Ellabella]

What the duck is a gentle resolution?! Given this is her job (I know, I know), that’s a piss poor work target.

161 books, but a cookbook ain’t one.

BIB. Too early...

 

[Smol Pixel]

Or maybe she's getting confused between egg rings and cock rings when she worked at the brothel?

Imagine a cock ring made from filed down tin cans!

 

[SendReceive]

Wait, so she gave a copy of Grifty Kitchen to Agent Adrian! She better hope he doesn’t actually read it, realise his mistake, then swiftly drop her.

Unless she gave it to Rosemary?

Jack Tweeted with the book on her shelf 01/11/22, Rosemary’s “looking forward to dumping you catching up later” Tweet was 01/12/22.

 

[Lyricallie]

I have finally caught up, happy new year everyone! Hope you had a fun Hogmanay. I just wanted to add, very very late that when I was grunking I genuinely thought that the dedication in the new book was a spoof written but the canal. I genuinely can't believe it was printed. I genuinely can't believe the whole thing was printed tbf. Can't wait for the reviews!

 

[Elsie Ben Felyn]

‘Reading’ Aye pal. We all remember Georgia Church Suppers.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

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Yeah Jack, other than the house/flat you’re obviously already in the process of buying, if your past New Year’s resolutions/“goals” are anything to go by I’m not 100% convinced of your ability to follow through…

Spoiler: A Decade of Jack’s Resolutions AKA “goals”

2013

2014. “My ONLY New Year’s resolutions”

2014 (again. Published same day, slightly different, oh and also these other NY resolutions)

2015

(Incidentally, here she is nicking “adapting” another BBC Good Food recipe)
https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2015/01/09/something-like-diane-sauce-or-sauce-diane/?amp=1

2016

2017

“Get an assistant” and also… “be better”.

Hmmm… she hasn’t eaten meat for 2 years?! I guess that Vegan resolution for 2016 stuck?!

A couple of years where I can’t find them
…if anyone can fill in 2018, 2020, 2022, please do.

2019

And then the resolution that dare not speak its name for 2021. (This is the year that she was also about to go all The Good Life having built a “compost tumbler” on NYE 2020)

2021

(credit to @Silver Linings for the immortalizing the compost tumbling)

 

[secretsquirgal]

It's a ring for frying eggs in so they have a neat round shape. It's not a nickname Jack has made up for her hole or anything mucky.

Now someone has finally explained what an egg ring is I don't understand why you'd wany to craft one or why it should be an item you'd need if on a budget and trying to assemble essentials for a kitchen?

I'm relatively swish when it comes to kitchenalia (I have some Le Creuset don't you know . DO YOU WANT ME TO STOP BREATHING?!?) but I had never heard of an egg ring before.

I think I need to spend some more time consulting my Lakeland catalogue....

 

[Mr Krabs]

About as long as this one lasted?

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Remember when THAT MAN was doing some sort of one pot project, so Jack decided to do 30 days of one pot recipes? I don’t think we got a single one.