Jack Monroe #524 Not the only or most important voice and presence in this critical area of our life

[lilykestrel]

I was looking for the cover of her KS book earlier ( side note: all her book covers are terrible) and got led to the Kickstarter page. Thirty people pledged 200 quid each for a party invite and one a̵b̵s̵o̵l̵u̵t̵e̵ ̵s̵u̵c̵k̵e̵r̵ poor deluded soul seems to have paid TWO GRAND to be cooked dinner at home. There's comments saying "there was no party" but I wonder what happened to the private dinner backer.

bit in bold ... shat themselves into oblivion

 

[ForgettyBetty]

I was looking for the cover of her KS book earlier ( side note: all her book covers are terrible) and got led to the Kickstarter page. Thirty people pledged 200 quid each for a party invite and one a̵b̵s̵o̵l̵u̵t̵e̵ ̵s̵u̵c̵k̵e̵r̵ poor deluded soul seems to have paid TWO GRAND to be cooked dinner at home. There's comments saying "there was no party" but I wonder what happened to the private dinner backer.

Was it Mary Portas?

 

[MrsFawlty]

The giveaway for me (apart from “terrible”) was Matt’s brilliantly subtle yet deep burn of “this is all quite unorthodox” (read: “what the everloving f**k are you doing?”) while Guest was making the horse spunk lasagne.

New ninnies can behold the creation of the horse spunk lasagne from 25 minutes in:

Nevermind the abomination that is the 'white sauce' she also claims a slosh of tea is a good substitute for red wine in the other layers if you don't drink alcohol as it supplies 'the tannin' ! Clearly this revelation has been eclipsed by the spunk sauce but it deserves its five minutes of fame.

 

[definitelynotvlad]

Not sure this is important, but I've never made a gif.

Also, sorry to everyone who is sick of seeing the old tweets. I don't know why I keep posting them.

Please don’t stop posting them! It’s great to remember how awful guest is in the absence of any new awfulness. Do you have a PO Box I could send a letter to giving you praise? You can keep it to read in hard times x

 

[Sensible Susan]

Okay this made me laugh so here's a bit of tea that shouldn't give anyone's identity away! (Yes I realise I am now just like Jack saying I'm not sticking around and then, in fact, sticking around.)

Re. DKL - Yep, Matt couldn't stand her once they started working together, but he wasn't even keen on the idea to start with. Another SK regular who is friends with Matt (but who wasn't on DKL) complained and said Jack's whole thing felt 'off', but for whatever reason the producers went ahead with the choice. It caused them a major headache - she was specifically asked to stop picking arguments on social media but ignored them. It also wound the crew up that she'd claim the show and prep was taking her ludicrous hours every day, which made them look like they were breaking all sorts of rules. Obviously it was nothing like the hours she claimed. Source said (verified on Twitter, but sent this by DM early hours of a Saturday morning so I suspect they may have regretted it!) that it was made very clear to Jack that she wasn't doing the prep she should and wasn't behaving in a professional manner but she ignored it. Their theory is that she must have known there was no chance of the production crew or Matt wanting to work with her again, but she chose to spin it as a big success on social media. In terms of industry insiders calling her out - one publisher has been speaking out against her for years after they asked her to contribute a recipe for a charity cookbook. Jack said yes then ignored all further contact, until finally the publisher got back a response along the lines of Jack's Kickstarter and Patreon excuses, e.g. please stop hassling me it's very bad for my mental health, I've had a very hard time etc. There was also some incident I don't know the details of with a BBC Good Food demo and they now won't touch her for anything live. Oh and also a photographer who worked with Jack on a few different media things said she'd have a new designer something every time they saw her and it was always 'oh a friend treated me' or 'I bought this with my book advance' etc.

Oh finally someone who Jack seems to think is her pal on Twitter used to contact me all the time about her and wanted to help me to create a podcast. It almost makes me feel bad for her when I see her interact with them.

I will obviously sell out anyone's and everyone's confidentiality if anyone can dish the truth about Dordrecht.

OMG, it's not Ralf Royle is it?

 

[Tabitha D]

Seeing as the Fraus are in a kindly way, could someone explain Terrible to me please? I've hunted high and low for splains but can't find diddle. 🥹

ETA sorry guys, I got ahead of myself posting this needy request. I've now grunked far enough to discover Yel's creation. x 7 billion. That's absolute solid GOLD. I hope she's seen that. The derision on his face is as obvious as jack's fillers. bleeping hell.

It’s superb isn’t it. I will never not find that funny.

 

[definitelynotvlad]

DKL should have been the thing that propelled her into a proper TV career, if she'd only made the most of it and stopped thinking of herself as "The Talent".

Instead it propelled her into over 500 threads on Tattle. Lol.

 

[BubbleDuck]

*Raises hand, using other hand to try and "extend" arm like at junior school*

Me me!

Is it that nice Norwegian chef with the nice, erm, eyes?

I’ve chosen to believe it’s Angela Hartnett

 

[Florid Language]

Currently on here you could pretend to be lee Anderson and people will buy it.
The back story is easy to look up, you'll need no proof and still get in
Eta; I'm suspicious on the internet always , people should be , soz tho if I'm being a grump about molly

I'm not paying attention to the details which is why I think guest gets away with so much.
I had no idea what 4chan was until you explained.
The name sounds like a martial arts chatroom for incels.
If it is somebody trolling then they've had a good laugh at our expense and probably consider it a win in their own heads.
Meh.

 

[plentyofpepper]

Lol the Guardian comments have LEFT but the self promoting, insufferable twit remains. What a w

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HOLD on, since when did she ever have a CRAFT BUSINESS?!!

 

[Hold my beans]

I’ve chosen to believe it’s Angela Hartnett

Same here. No messing with Angela

 

[Shelby19]

Oh finally someone who Jack seems to think is her pal on Twitter used to contact me all the time about her and wanted to help me to create a podcast. It almost makes me feel bad for her when I see her interact with them.

I’ve convinced myself this pal is either Simon Harris or Ralf Little. What a plot twist that would be!

 

[hiyaaaacath]

Nevermind the abomination that is the 'white sauce' she also claims a slosh of tea is a good substitute for red wine in the other layers if you don't drink alcohol as it supplies 'the tannin' ! Clearly this revelation has been eclipsed by the spunk sauce but it deserves its five minutes of fame.

43:20 onwards when Matt is LYING that the “lasagne” is delicious and it cuts to the other ladies face who looks like she’s trying to swallow a sick

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Currently on here you could pretend to be lee Anderson and people will buy it.
The back story is easy to look up, you'll need no proof and still get in
Eta; I'm suspicious on the internet always , people should be , soz tho if I'm being a grump about molly

I’m with you on being suspicious about people, like you say, anyone could be anyone.

But in this case @Awfully Molly I do believe you are who you say you are.
It’s not just the “back story” the way of writing is the same.

 

[Tabitha D]

Restaurant chef but has written a couple of recipe books and pops up a lot on cooking shows.

Ooh. British? Male? Accent? I’m dying to know.

 

[definitelynotvlad]

OMG what is this shite. Unless you're really famous, which guest doesn't qualify as, you don't get your agent's staff to manage and screen your fan mail. The cluelessness and entitlement here are unbelievable. And don't get me started on the " I'm so sad, pleease send me kind words and tell me how much you love me" nonsense.

Plus, if those letters were so important to guest, she would have been sure she knew where they were, no matter how many times she moved.

I thought this too but then remembered in our last house move I managed to lose all our birth certificates, my passport and my marriage certificate. Whoops! Send cashos?

 

[rage naan]

Was it Mary Portas?

I wish it was lozza , that'd be a plot twist

Nevermind the abomination that is the 'white sauce' she also claims a slosh of tea is a good substitute for red wine in the other layers if you don't drink alcohol as it supplies 'the tannin' ! Clearly this revelation has been eclipsed by the spunk sauce but it deserves its five minutes of fame.

googling earlier I found this review. even the torygraph was doing the "these recipes are shite but we recommend this anyway" thing. Why

Vegan(ish) by Jack Monroe cookbook review: 'Plenty to admire from a r…

archived 4 Jul 2023 19:32:00 UTC

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[Toffee finger]

For new people - I re read thread 31 a while ago and cringed myself inside out at how I tried to be kind in my responses to her. I mentioned it here at the time of re reading that I’d have a different response after so many threads but want to clarify again that I find her an insufferable grifting lying animal abusing complete and utter hole. If you read my responses on 31 imagine them much less friendly

 

[I'm not actually here]

4Chan still v much alive AFAIK as it recently featured heavily in the Idaho 4 murders case, Brian Kohberger alleged perpetrator alerted suspicion and brought attention to self after anonymously joining chat forums but obsessively discussing the crime with what seemed to be a little bit too much interest and information. Seemed that at least in this case, university students use it for anon discussions.

It's a Vietnamese Basket-weaving forum and all intimation that it is anything else would be LIES. Anybody threatening 4chan anons are gonna do a pile-on of anybody other than Shia LaBoeuf and his flags has never spent any time there.

 

[Notaninstamumeither]

I rewatched the horror of the spunk lasagne. She must have been an absolute nightmare to work with! No awareness of timing, no interaction with Matt because she clearly can’t multitask (some world argue she can’t solo task), an obvious inability to cook…. I’d blocked out how bad it was.