Couldn't agree with you more. Shameful that this is able to be published with clearly little or no testing. Such contempt for the people they imagine are going to buy and use this book!
Jack Monroe #549 Two different one's in three's
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My brother when he was very little, would eat a whole adult sized plate of roast dinner, including yorkshires, put through a blender. I know the brown mush!The way it starts with all those ingredients going into the blender really turns me. I'm a bit queasy about texture. I'm going to spoiler this, honestly don't open with a weak stomach (not joking).
So anyway, after seeing the recipe start with the blender I skipped through. I got that she added a lot of veg, a lot of seasoning, and served it with rice but I'm still amazed that she managed to recover Jack's Beefyboozey to something deemed "edible" and that Mr Shoestring (Eddie?Mum worked in a nursing home when I was a teenager. Some of the residents needed their meals liquidised, so they'd get the same dinner the cooks had prepared for everyone else but theirs would have gone through the blender (we called them liquidisers then - which also turns me). She would occasionally bring a bag of those leftovers home for our labradors. Intellectually I knew it was just meat, spuds, carrots, & gravy and that I would have happily sat down to a plate of it, but even now picturing the bag sitting on the kitchen counter, the smell...
) came back for a third bowl!
Shoestring Jane says she'll probably never have another can of stewed steak in her store cupboard. Way ahead of you there, Jane.
Bang on, Mabel. One has to wonder if testing wasn't deemed necessary given the intended audience.
All the same, they (all of them: agent, publishing house, supposed food writer) should be publicly shamed, because the 'recipes' are not fit for purpose.
Shame on all of them.
Never going to be more than okay….
Agree with both of you. Remember the sloppy editing of her latest oeuvre? Even the editor who boasted on Twitter that she worked on it soon realised what a crap job she'd done and deleted her tweet. Dangerous tin can nonsense and all.Bang on, Mabel. One has to wonder if testing wasn't deemed necessary given the intended audience.
All the same, they (all of them: agent, publishing house, supposed food writer) should be publicly shamed, because the 'recipes' are not fit for purpose.
Shame on all of them.
These people know nothing about genuinely poor people and care even less - it's all about the virtue signalling and the dollar for them.
That woman making the 'boozy'whatever it was (no booze left after 20 minutes' pointless cooking on the hob) showed up Jack and her publishing gang for the charlatans they are.
I still don't understand the thought process regarding that
"Who is this book targeted at?"
"People who are too poor to have lightbulbs or soap!"
"What shall we sell it for?"
"Twenty quid!"
(I know we all know the actual target audience is the she-does-so-much-good idiot brigade, but the publisher still has to pretend otherwise)
Jack guffawing at her own quip about how she only makes cakes for people who've been in her fan as Paul Hollywood frowns.
THIS: A lot of the comments on the video seem to be trying to excuse the shitiness and blandness of the recipe by mentioning that the book was written specifically for those who rely on tins from foodbanks (and thereby showing their arses that they don't believe that the poors deserve decent tasting food). It wasn't - it was marketed as a mainstream budget cookery book. Something that's been done hundreds of times before, and hundreds of times since.
"this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of." - from the Amazon blurb - says it all about her and and her publishers snobbishness tbh.
Anyone like Jack who relies on only Twitter/X for their visibility to an audience is knackered. It's going down the drain. I only have an account to look at what Mr Vint is saying, I never tweet and all I see is supercilious wankers I used to follow back in the day making clanging bleeps of themselves and all the issues they care about with their strident slogans, absolutism, tunnel vision and conviction of their own righteousness. Awful odious ppl damaging their own causes. funny how the same ppl who claim to understand collective punishment is wrong have no problem turning up at British jewish owned businesses to scare and intimidate them and their customers innit. How's that help Palestinians
Twitter is going down the bleeper. We manage a couple of client accounts and are recommending that they get off there as the engagement is dropping all the time and the traffic it directs to their sites is minimal, especially since the changes to TweetDeck and all the bull with verification and effectively paying people to generate outrage. I very much doubt if Guest still has a Glasto-sized audience, and her reputation is too broken. Every time she tweets, more people see the kickback and the scales fall from their eyes.
so did the slopalong. Jack could argue the woman only tested one recipe, but if you look at the slopalong, i'd say 98% of what we made was rank, inedible or worse.
I’ve lost track of the patreon - what’s going on with the members and paying members? What’s the churn this month @heretoreaditall2019?
I was genuinely shocked by how bad the slopalong results were. If you're aiming your recipes at the people who have the least to spare, you have a moral responsibility to make sure they work and don't require a lot of additional knowledge/skill/ingredients to make something vaguely edible. We made a bread, which took almost twice as much flour as specified, had unnecessary ingredients and a confusing method (self raising flour AND yeast??) and took much longer to bake than it should as it was huge. And after all that it just wasn't very nice and made me feel vaguely ill to eat it.
She's a charlatan who can't cook for tit and has been endlessly enabled by the sycophants around her.
You need a relative to go with. Who in her family is going to want to spend that amount of time with her?
The line
"I am attempting to retrieve the situation "
Best line ever after making Jack's slop.
She basically adds chilli , mushrooms , peppers , adds salt and pepper , soya sauce and a stock cube.
Thing is, if she went on one of those bake off shows, we all know she’d make a crappy cake. But then she’d cry at the negative feedback, blame it on bad mentals and people would have lots of sympathy for her. It would just mean more followers and attention. In the old days, there would have been a guardian article too talking about how we need to have a serious conversation about mental health on reality TV (accompanied by that photo of her with the stupid red haircut).
She's never going on reality TV. She'd fail the most cursory psychological tests given that she threatens to off herself every time someone doesn't scran her a. She doesn't tick any boxes for good telly- she's not the young good looking 1 ppl will fancy who might get in someone else's sleeping bag and she's not funny, likeable, a leader or a well-known name ppl want to see in a novel situation. And if anyone beefed with Miss Sensitive when she showed what a lazy whiney non-team player crank she is, they'd be accused of dunking on her cos she's gay (she's not), she's poor (she's not) or cos she's a radical Che Guevara threat to vested interests (she's really really not).
You missed out additional herbs and courgette. In fact it was a different recipe completely.The line
"I am attempting to retrieve the situation "
Best line ever after making Jack's slop.
She basically adds chilli , mushrooms , peppers , adds salt and pepper , soya sauce and a stock cube.
She also had to fry additional garlic (Jack's recipe had her starting off blending raw garlic... boak) and then add some Cajun sauce to try to get some flavour.
Love that she referred to the original recipe as "lentil slop" before she decided to try to rescue it with some texture and flavour. Also, she bought the book in a charity shop.
Oh, and the husband dryly declaring it to be "edible" lmao.
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