Jack Monroe #601 Replican't

[TheMiceInTheShed]

This poor soul bravely tried to escape the swampy mush
If only he'd had a spoon
Fly high, oh valiant one

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It's heartbreaking to see them suffer so.

However, I understand that we should never touch them as they are then rejected by their fellows and spend their short, tragic lives alone and unloved, often hanging on fences or lying alone on park benches.

 

[chizontiz]

Also in more uninteresting, probably unrelated, lesbian news, OH and I saw some friends recently and their toddler calls them “mummy” and “mumma”. I think that’s quite common for same-sex families? Female anyway. It was also v sweet.

It did get me thinking if that could be the genesis of ‘mumma/momma’ whatever it is, but that still doesn’t make that much sense. Just some food for thought/munch to mither/slop to slop.

 

[rage naan]

That’s because she’s OBSESSED, RageyN.

I actually saw Hunter's Richard III at the Globe about 100 years ago, it was pretty cool.

so that's what she's been up to instead of making figgy puddings

Oh my good god. Why is it surprising? Because she's pretty and was once Elizabeth Bennet and in Love Actually? I've not watched Black Doves yet. I want detailed analysis from guest of everything Keira has been in so far because this is a bold claim

Rich and engaging like Allegra & Louisa lol

I grudgingly suppose that admitting not to already have completed it is progress. I didn't care for the Coens' version of Macbeth but YMMV. I find guest's assumptions irritating nonetheless

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

Also in more uninteresting, probably unrelated, lesbian news, OH and I saw some friends recently and their toddler calls them “mummy” and “mumma”. I think that’s quite common for same-sex families? Female anyway. It was also v sweet.

It did get me thinking if that could be the genesis of ‘mumma/momma’ whatever it is, but that still doesn’t make that much sense. Just some food for thought/munch to mither/slop to slop.

I think this is the origin of the mamma as she started it once she hooked up with Allegra. She was plain old mummy before that.

All the talk about sainsbos reminds me of that time she pretended she was having big chats with Asda. Tragic twit

 

[chizontiz]

I will caveat my earlier comment with; it was nice to see Keira Knightly back in the telly. I have no opinion on if she’s a good actress or not, she’s just in that generation I grew up with who I’ll always have a soft spot for, and looking back I *definitely* fancied her. Oh to be a repressed frau.

ETA someone get kez out the telly! *on

 

[YerDa]

I grudgingly suppose that admitting not to already have completed it is progress.

She imagined she’d completed it though.

 

[MooBelle]

Guessing she was slagging off her formerly beloved Sainsbury’s?!
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A couple of months earlier, on her blog
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Not sure why she was still “filling her trolley” there in December in that case tho… guess she’ll still happily shop there, but not “promote them on her website”? Sounds about right. View attachment 3338652View attachment 3338654

So you stopped shopping there because of your 'principles'?
Not because they sacked you for the disgusting remarks you made about the then prime minister and his recently deceased child?

 

[rage naan]

I will caveat my earlier comment with; it was nice to see Keira Knightly back in the telly. I have no opinion on if she’s a good actress or not, she’s just in that generation I grew up with who I’ll always have a soft spot for, and looking back I *definitely* fancied her. Oh to be a repressed frau.

ETA someone get kez out the telly! *on

I used to be a bit of a hater and then one day I was watching something - I think one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies of all things - and then I suddenly realised she's actually really good.

I think guest has a hyperbole problem. It's okay to just quite like some stuff without it always having to be epically amazing 10/10 no notes

 

[Soup or Noodle]

That is indeed the onion leek mussels pears vinegar mustard concoction. Sometimes she surprises herself!

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That is so wrong and so slippery

 

[Snotbuster]

It immediately preceded the goth/grunge rodeo that hit Southend when Jack was 12-13.

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Grunge goth girl is wearing a Nickelback shirt? Oh my my my my. "People hate Nickelback because they represent the idea that a record label can take any band, no matter how bad, and make them popular. The label can use clever PR and good advertising to make loads of money off a band that is just mediocre." From a reddit thread explaining why people hate the band.

How fitting.

 

[MooBelle]

I was browsing Emma Bridgewater the other day (in my day to day life I am a mini goth, but Christmas turns me into the most basic of basic witches) and came across this marvellous specimen
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Which of course made me think of you fantastic lot. I'm a bit early with my New Year missives but I'm hoping to be less of a lurker in 2025 and onwards.
Bring the chaoi!

Willkommen. Please pull up a chair and tell us your origin story x

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

I used to be a bit of a hater and then one day I was watching something - I think one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies of all things - and then I suddenly realised she's actually really good.

I think guest has a hyperbole problem. It's okay to just quite like some stuff without it always having to be epically amazing 10/10 no notes

I saw her at Glastonbury and she was genuinely having a good time, wandering about with everyone else and just being normal. I’ve liked her ever since

 

[rage naan]

Poor things: 2hrs 21
Megalopolis: 2hrs 18
Black Doves: 5hrs 30 mins ish

that's over 10 hours of content in a few days. Like I have no problem with consuming that much media but when you also have to read the whole of the Dark Tower series and walk 2500000 steps and all the rest if it, well

 

[Hold my beans]

Poor things: 2hrs 21
Megalopolis: 2hrs 18
Black Doves: 5hrs 30 mins ish

that's over 10 hours of content in a few days. Like I have no problem with consuming that much media but when you also have to read the whole of the Dark Tower series and walk 2500000 steps and all the rest if it, well

Don't forget comedy hour. No mention of what hilarious shows she's been watching with SB over Christmas, how strange

 

[rage naan]

Don't forget comedy hour. No mention of what hilarious shows she's been watching with SB over Christmas, how strange

The Mrs Brown's Boys specials no doubt

 

[bracrumbs]

Well fraus, I enjoyed Black Doves - Ben Whishaw calling people darling, Sarah Lancaster chewing on every bit of scene she could get her hands on, spotting London locations (Daunt Books! Southwark Cathedral!), Curtis from Misfits being posh and camp. The plot, such that was, was utterly secondary to all of it.

On December 23rd, Tesco* had a basket at the front of their shops offering a carrot for Rudolph for free. Now there’s a grifty tip. I throughly enjoyed seeing several actual small boys and girls having a chomp on the carrot they’d been given to hold as their parent flew down the aisles wide eyed and panicky.

*its a supermarket, Guest, which isn’t Sainsbury's or Asda.

 

[BeardyBap]

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Big Blue Supermarket: ONE. Big Orange Supermarket: NIL.

Just a quick blog this evening, as regular readers will know that I have been a loyal shopper at a certain supermarket for quite some time now, given that it is literally at the end of my road. How...

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Also, tinned potatoes are cheapest because they don’t need to be stored in a fridge or freezer
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Jack Monroe on food hacks, tinned food and summer cooking

A food writer, journalist and campaigner, she's written four books on cooking on a budget which champion making good food accessible to all

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But but but… what about The Quarterhack?

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You know, where you spend about twenty minutes drawing up a stocktake of literally hundreds of pounds worth of larder, pantry, & freezer stock

A few weeks after posting this she’ll publish HH2 and when challenged will say “I never said I was still poor!” but here she is, pretending that she is constrained by her ridiculous £20/week budget.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

If it means you’ll shut the duck up and go away for good, please do.

 

[rage naan]

But but but… what about The Quarterhack?

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You know, where you spend about twenty minutes drawing up a stocktake of literally hundreds of pounds worth of larder, pantry, & freezer stock
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A few weeks after posting this she’ll publish HH2 and when challenged will say “I never said I was still poor!” but here she is, pretending that she is constrained by her ridiculous £20/week budget.
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Snack pizza? Why isn't she making her own by topping circles cut carefully from a cereal box (first draw around a tin with a pen or pencil, or a Chanel lipstick if you can't afford pens), then use a small sharp scalpel and a steady hand to cut them out since scissors are over £1 these days because Asda hates poor people. Yes you can fish the cereal box out if a neighbour's recycling bin, as I'm sure all your own ones have been turned inside out to make containers for bits of string

Where was I. Yes. Smear each circle generously with 1/8 TSP of tomato paste (2p, Sainsbury's basics) and 1/12 of a gram of Mild Basic Plastic Cheddar (4p, Asda Basics).Yes you do have to go to two shops. If you don't have a cheese grater simply use a woodworking plane or a hacksaw, duh. DO NOT PUT HACKSAWS IN THE MICROWAVE. I've seen too many fires. You should see how many fires I've seen.

Top with a grain of salt (1p) and a black pepper (2p) and toast under the grill you definitely have. The work of a moment.
Jack's Thrifty Tip
Simply save the juice you gather when rinsing some beans and use this in place of the tomato puree to bring the cost down further! Merely promptly decant the rinsed juice into a jar (a sort of container) and pop it in the fridge door until needed. If you've lost the jar lid, do what I do and tie a sock over the top, secured with bra elastic because bras give you trauma but also you love posing in them. Where was I again?

 

[Savethesauce]

That stocktake is an insult. How did she get away with it