Jack Monroe #483 The plans are going well, it’s the execution that seems to be lacking

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People-huv-tae-know

I fucking hate cheese.

Back to business, the only times I've ever come across crab paste was when it was used as a vector for murder in a Poirot book and in a jolly hockysticks midnight feast way by Enid Blyton. I'm shocked to my vegan core to find it still exists to this day (not really).

Did that article have a point btw because if it did, I couldn't find it. Send glasses-o.
 
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lilykestrel

Flivver said:
Know what you mean. The Viscomté de Sloppe. A masked freedom fighter who fights the good fight against Bad Tories…behind the scenes. So low profile that no one knows they exist.
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when he's volunteering at the food bank, he removes the mask and rolls down his sleeves and goes by Viscomté de Sloppie, so as not to bring undue attention/take the sheen off their hard work with his dazzling fame.

House of Carbonara said:
Why lie about something so trivial though? She's 35 and still making up fantasies like a five year old would do. I really don't understand.
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I think what other fraus have already said combined with the apparent obsession with making 'gourmet' food on the cheap (and producing slop)
 
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Ellabella

She's trying to appear all food knowledgeable by referring to comte. But as usual she gets it wrong, because she knows fuck all about food. The "hard cheese" will be trying to pass off as something similar to parmesan (or grana padano), a hard sharp salty cheese. Comte is semi-hard, buttery caramel flavours, not a grating cheese and completely different melting properties. God she annoys me.
 
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Veronicaaa

House of Carbonara said:
Why lie about something so trivial though? She's 35 and still making up fantasies like a five year old would do. I really don't understand.
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What gets me is the way she says she's going to do something and then just .... doesn't do it? I guess the most recent example is the '4 blog posts per week' which she said she was going to write at the start of the year and then produced none. Zero, nada, zilch. I could even kind of understand if she promised them and then just published one before giving up. But to provide NONE is insane.
 
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TheCat'sMother

I tried & failed to grate Comte once. It just sort of bent out of shape.
 
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I'm not actually here

Spain adjacent. Just sayin'.... A good Manchego bought on a market or eaten in a discerning tapas bar is an entirely different beast to that shite wrapped in plastic and exported!
 
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Witchfinder Sargeant

House of Carbonara said:
Why lie about something so trivial though? She's 35 and still making up fantasies like a five year old would do. I really don't understand.
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She's trapped in this persona, the Angel of The Povs. She knows she should be on top of her brief and able to say "this cheap thing is a brilliant dupe for XYZ," but because she doesn't know anything about anything, she picks random cheap X, random expensive Y, and doesn't know or care that X doesn't behave anything like Y because they aren't even vaguely similar.
 
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jordishaw

AND Jack also completely fails to understand/engage with any of the real issues about cheap food and the damage that it does to working people all along the production and distribution chain. Instead of using their ridiculously large following to talk about the importance of fair wages and understanding real food values (like taste and texture), Jack falls back on the lazy populism of 'it's all the same stuff, some has fancy labels'.
 
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Valiofthedolls

Oops!


Still, at least you sold a LOT of stuff “in bunches” over the next few months, Jack! I bet the (equally soap-boiling solar-lit struggling) TT were super grateful for their “wedge” too!


Jack Monroe. The only follow through she ever does is after eating her own slop.

Now, about those four blog posts a week…
 
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Clovis

TheCat'sMother said:
I tried & failed to grate Comte once. It just sort of bent out of shape.
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It can be grated but you'd have to do it straight from the fridge so it isn't so soft. It's quite a creamy hard cheese. It's also usually sold in thin wedges so I cut some, then stack it together to grate. Grated Comté on pasta is heaven.

I'm loving all the specialist cheese talk. Funny how some fraus know more about cheese than THE self-appointed Literal Food Expert. Makes you think.
 
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Veronicaaa

discolisa said:
Not sure where this will fall as I just cannot keep up, but did we see this? Guardian letters from January. Go Carol.View attachment 2009580
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This is soooo funny, especially when you consider that Jack had a total hissy fit when the Southend Echo dared to print something similarly critical in their letters page. How DARE the Guardian, who Jack has WRITTEN FOR, betray her like this??
 
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House of Carbonara

That's kind of sad... Self inflicted though.
 
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StatusWoe

Clovis said:
I'm loving all the specialist cheese talk. Funny how some fraus know more about cheese than THE self-appointed Literal Food Expert. Makes you think.
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It did make me think. I'm thinking there might be some culinary-adjacent fraus who possibly have first hand experience of JM. I wonder if THAT MAN is on here too.

Morning Mimosa said:
Posted without comment. (But possibly some sniggering)

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Social morays. We're back to eels again!
 
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Captainmouse

halloumi is known as squeaky cheese
 
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pumbilical cord

If she's gonna be back and boring, she could have the good grace to at least give us a little chaos, for old times sake.

What's the point of her again?!?
 
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Claret

I deplore how she makes such a big deal about donating to charity and then fails to deliver. I'll do this and then donate a chunk to charity is the mantra. She'll get all the plaudits and good will and then donates fuck all to charity. Even when she runs a charity campaign the grabbing *unt does all she can to hold on to every penny. Also, why the drama. If you're going to donate to charity Monroe, then donate to charity. No need to tell the fucking world about it. How many ways does this woman get my goat
 
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