Jack Monroe #523 Everything she does is pointless busywork that solves nothing

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That Postiive News response is the laziest I've ever seen. You asked for evidence of her work with CPAG, not if it said on their website that she was an ambassador. Surely they did more research than that?
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When I was about 11 I entered a poem into a competition and was delighted to receive a letter saying it would be published - in a book which would cost just £40 per copy, and my entry cost me only £10 (or somesuch amount). "Between a Laugh and a Tear" was the title. Ha! I've just found it on Amazon.

I think they published every single poem they received. It took me a long time to figure that out, though. I was convinced I was a Published Author.
hahaha I did the same! £40 a book and my mum did buy it bless her 🥲
 
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I was thinking along similar lines - that swapping "salt" for "pepper", or "penne" for "spaghetti" etc probably counts as an entirely "new" recipe in her (literal) book.

And really - if all herbs are interchangeable, and all oils are interchangeable etc, surely all recipes are interchangeable, so who needs more than one?

I personally have about 40 cookery books but only ever cook sausages and find I don't need them at all,
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Can someone enlighten me about Iqbal?

I checked the wiki and still couldn't find anything (but I am Very Old and my eyes don't work as well as they did 50 years ago when I had the figure of a sylph and all around here was green fields.
I love it when fraus hear about him for the first time 😂
Basically, a few years ago several comments started appearing on a Sarfend local rag’s website by the same bloke.

They were all articles about guest or written by her, this guy wrote very passionately about how Jack has ruined his mate Iqbal’s life after she’d been a tenant of his.
He said that she’d had wild drug parties, orgies (which hilariously was kind of the least believable accusation), been antisocial and trashed the place.

The funniest bit is that he kept repeating that she had smashed the toilet basin and started shitting in bags instead and left them all for him to clean up when she did a runner.
Then Iqbal apparently had to sell the trashed house and get a job at Sainsburys.

It’s clearly a case of mistaken identity, or this fella is trying to be funny/playing silly buggers/cause drama/is a bit out of it. But it shall remain in our lore 🤍

Also he always called her a sh1tter with a 1. Hence JennyNumNum’s campaign for JUSTICE FOR IQBAL 👊🏼

(Miss you sh1tter hater, hope you’re okay 🤍)

Pretty sure this is all correct? I was only a twinkle in Tattle’s eye at the time.
 
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I bet poor old Coxy is still shitting through the eye of a needle after eating two full bowls of slop.

I really need a weekend chaos - Ive had a rit week at work and need to laugh at the misfortunes of guest.
 
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I really want to break ranks to go and twitter screech THAT'S NOT A DAHL at Coxy. You can't just lob any pulses into a pan with any old combo of spices and call it a dahl. That's not what it is. And the absolute worst thing is that dahl is by its nature a thrifty dish, it literally costs pennies to make so why is she trying to reinvent the wheel? Indian people have been making nutritious, tasty food on the cheap for centuries. Who is this wanker come lately?
 
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I bet poor old Coxy is still shitting through the eye of a needle after eating two full bowls of slop.

I really need a weekend chaos - Ive had a rit week at work and need to laugh at the misfortunes of guest.
There may be some mysterious growling and rumbling noises in the background when she presents her show today.

If she starts putting on really long songs like Free Bird we’ll know she’s dashing to the loo.
 
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I really want to break ranks to go and twitter screech THAT'S NOT A DAHL at Coxy. You can't just lob any pulses into a pan with any old combo of spices and call it a dahl. That's not what it is. And the absolute worst thing is that dahl is by its nature a thrifty dish, it literally costs pennies to make so why is she trying to reinvent the wheel? Indian people have been making nutritious, tasty food on the cheap for centuries. Who is this wanker come lately?
She says that recipe was stolen from inspired by Dishoom's black bean dahl. Does anyone know if Dishoom actually use black beans for it? I'm thinking she took the name literally and thought black beans = our version of black beans, rather than urad or even lentils.
 
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She says that recipe was stolen from inspired by Dishoom's black bean dahl. Does anyone know if Dishoom actually use black beans for it? I'm thinking she took the name literally and thought black beans = our version of black beans, rather than urad or even lentils.
I’ve eaten it and am pretty sure they don’t but then, I’m not a FORENSIC chef so what would I know 🤷‍♀️
 
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She says that recipe was stolen from inspired by Dishoom's black bean dahl. Does anyone know if Dishoom actually use black beans for it? I'm thinking she took the name literally and thought black beans = our version of black beans, rather than urad or even lentils.

Na it's urad, of course
 
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How does it work when you're using a pseudonym though? I mean, RM says she's got all these bylines but I can only find a couple of opinion pieces and they credit 'Roadside Mum' or 'Louisa Britain'. Seems weird. Why be anonymous when you're pretending to be a journalist?
It doesn't matter! I never (rarely) had bylines, most journalists don't (sub editors etc.) - you just pay the membership, they don't check you are a real journalist. Maybe they do for issuing press passes, I'm very old and can't remember.
 
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Na it's urad, of course
Black dhal is a classic favourite that Dishoom is famous for. She’s an a if she’s been using black beans. What an absolute melt who clearly doesn’t understand food. She can easily get that dhal as well as we there is an abundance of it in the world food shops near to her and where she supposedly used to shop when she said she was in Westcliff area. What a wick she is.
 
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Black dhal is a classic favourite that Dishoom is famous for. She’s an a if she’s been using black beans. What an absolute melt who clearly doesn’t understand food. She can easily get that dhal as well as we there is an abundance of it in the world food shops near to her and where she supposedly used to shop when she said she was in Westcliff area. What a wick she is.
Tbf this is the person who uses not arborio rice for (lettuce) risotto
 
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Pretty much all the stuff she's "known" for, like winning awards and being an actual campaigner and charity ambassador, is now at least five years in the past (Big Linda's pinkwashing prizes don't count). It's like putting your grade 5 piano or swimming certificate that you got at middle school on your CV in your mid-20s. At some point surely people will notice she has done nothing of note for years.
Or mentioning 4.5 GCSEs, £10 book tokens and standing on tippy toes for hours after being driven in Mammy E’s Land Rover to ballet lessons for years.
 
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Someone in that last thread mithered about Grifty Kitchen having 120 new recipes and I would like to stand by my suspicion that she deliberately nixed her website in order to reuse the last few years of tit she’d posted on there in the book…
Didn’t a ninny ascertain there were only 80 odd?

glad to have confirmation @Lucky Escape that my memory still functions
 
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Morning Ninnies! So I haven’t been on for a couple of weeks, lots going on with the kids etc, but last night I bloody dreamt about Guest! I was at a pub with her, how I knew her is hazy but I was with her and a couple of friends, she was really chatty and I kept buying her drinks but she didn’t buy me one back! My other friends were moaning she wouldn’t buy a round, then she took us to a pub where she said we could have an afters but to get in we had to climb in through that PE equipment they have attached to the wall in schools! She nipped through but my friends and me kept getting stuck because we were too large! So we left, slagging her off and then we were at a fair and I can’t remember anymore!! What does it mean???!!!
My absolutely terrible dream interpretation book from 1996 suggests feelings of inadequacy and lacking pleasurable experiences.

Might I respectfully suggest a good burgering?

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Odd for Oxfam to have scrubbed all record of guest from their website when she is an ambassador apparently.

Actually that's not fully true. She does appear in the charity shop section.

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Guest having to read in The Independent the criteria for being poor is the most middle class thing I've read in a long time 😂 And still people didn't cotton on back then that it was all bull.

Btw another frau here 🙋‍♀️ whose kindly (deluded) parents paid for a poem to be included in an anthology and who then bought the book. The book was Autumn Anthology. I've still got it somewhere.
 
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She says that recipe was stolen from inspired by Dishoom's black bean dahl. Does anyone know if Dishoom actually use black beans for it? I'm thinking she took the name literally and thought black beans = our version of black beans, rather than urad or even lentils.
i have the dishoom cookbook, it's urad. i miss ripping jack's recipes to pieces pleaseeeeee come back with a bowl of slop jackie
 
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I really want to break ranks to go and twitter screech THAT'S NOT A DAHL at Coxy. You can't just lob any pulses into a pan with any old combo of spices and call it a dahl. That's not what it is. And the absolute worst thing is that dahl is by its nature a thrifty dish, it literally costs pennies to make so why is she trying to reinvent the wheel? Indian people have been making nutritious, tasty food on the cheap for centuries. Who is this wanker come lately?
Absolutely agree with this. Every culture has a version of this be it Italian pasta, Scottish porridge slices or Swedish salted herrings and they come with a rich history which most people are sensitive to when adapting or trying new dishes. A lot of these meals have geographical ties and are deliberately calorie dense in order to sustain people working the land or in heavy industry. Guest tramples all over the original dishes, their history, their purpose and therefore people's cultural identities. She forgets a lot of these meals were born of real hardship and suffering. She also overlooks the huge and sadly silent contribution women have made to the culinary world she loves to sample. For guest it's a playground of recipes to play potions with. For the people who created them it was about survival.
 
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