Jack Monroe #601 Replican't

[Lazarus]

the thing is, there's simply no way that you could accumulate that amount of food in your fridge, freezer or cupboards if you were always on a £20 a week limit. the whole thing is fantasy.
there's a good reason we never got to see the families she was taking to the supermarket - probably once it was all looked at with a critical eye, it was quickly written off as a pile of rit.

 

[Cookiecookie]

I'm curious about whether her shop extends to school lunches and snacks for SB, who absolutely does live with her all the time. Paying for school lunches must take a chunk out of that weekly food budget, so if she doesnt pay for that then it's packed lunches? But nothing she buys looks like enough food for herself, the imaginary lodger/labourer and a teenage boy- a breed with legendary appetites who will lay waste to a loaf of bread in a matter of minutes.

There was a phase where she pretended to make sandwiches for SB. They were truly bin worthy things of soft cheese mixed with old vegetables, which she then put in a paper bag - a totally practical thing for someone to take lunch in! And don't forget the 'cheap maize snacks' she used to drone on about to go with...

 

[Lazarus]

I'm curious about whether her shop extends to school lunches and snacks for SB, who absolutely does live with her all the time. Paying for school lunches must take a chunk out of that weekly food budget, so if she doesnt pay for that then it's packed lunches? But nothing she buys looks like enough food for herself, the imaginary lodger/labourer and a teenage boy- a breed with legendary appetites who will lay waste to a loaf of bread in a matter of minutes.

SS: SilverLinings

Imagine what that sandwich must have looked like come lunchtime after being rattled around in a paper bag? She just can't ever stop lying.

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

I'm curious about whether her shop extends to school lunches and snacks for SB, who absolutely does live with her all the time. Paying for school lunches must take a chunk out of that weekly food budget, so if she doesnt pay for that then it's packed lunches? But nothing she buys looks like enough food for herself, the imaginary lodger/labourer and a teenage boy- a breed with legendary appetites who will lay waste to a loaf of bread in a matter of minutes.

No she makes those gross sandwiches from carrot and puts them in used brown paper bags for him to take. Obviously all his mates are super jealous and beg him to swop for their school lunches.

I find the quarterback stuff ridiculous and unhelpful. I consider myself a good home economist and try also to keep the food interesting and not repetitive. I use up stuff, make good use out of the freezer, add in yellow sticker things, turn small leftovers into bigger meals, batch cook. I try to buy everything we need in one big shop a week for around £70 and that’s all cleaning, a pet and a coeliac child. Pretending you can feed a family for £20 even as a top up shop is ridiculous.

 

[Lucky Escape]

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SS: SilverLinings

Imagine what that sandwich must have looked like come lunchtime after being rattled around in a paper bag? She just can't ever stop lying.

Does anyone know what 'jet hip' is supposed to be?

(Also: cream cheese, mayo, prawn, cucumber, and Tabasco....?!)

 

[BeardyBap]

Jack says that it would somehow be "wilfully disingenuous" to cost things out properly:

Spoiler: full receipts

(from Lazarus on thread 427)

But, Jack, what if you didn't have all that stuff already in stock, how much would your weekly shop cost then?

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Her use of language betrays the lies again. All the meat and fish is out of date & yellow-stickered ofc, but it’s this:

Everything of value is always “flung”, “slung”, “chucked”, “thrown”, isn’t it? She cares naught for expensive goods, their value is irrelevant to the Princess of the Povs. Designer apparel? Found in a puddle/ charity shop. An original Tracy Emin? Not even really hers and she hangs it in the downstairs loo. What, this old thing?

 

[Darvos]

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SS: SilverLinings

Imagine what that sandwich must have looked like come lunchtime after being rattled around in a paper bag? She just can't ever stop lying.

Plus made the night before then sat getting soggier overnight in its paper bag. Both soggy and stale: guest is truly multi talented. Plus plus, this joy is to make butties for a few days. Did no squigs even question? Why am I asking: as an ex squig once you became EXHAUSTED with her… everything… you muted.

This is truly, truly scrumptious vile.

 

[Witchfinder Sargeant]

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Imagine what that sandwich must have looked like come lunchtime after being rattled around in a paper bag? She just can't ever stop lying.

How, exactly, do you "smash yellow sticker salad to smithereens"? It's generally wet and slimy, not suitable for "smashing".

 

[SouthendRealEstate]

Jack says that it would somehow be "wilfully disingenuous" to cost things out properly:

Spoiler: full receipts

(from Lazarus on thread 427)

But, Jack, what if you didn't have all that stuff already in stock, how much would your weekly shop cost then?

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I can’t believe that she elevenerified the f**k out of her own nonsensical £20/week shop for two adults and a child, by saying she makes enough meals for the freezer that once a month (so that’s every third shop-ish) she can splurge on cleaning products. When you look back, it’s bananas that she got away with it for so long.

 

[Claret]

She talks about taking her business elsewhere if Wilkos shafted their employees, and her only intention in making the statement was virtue signalling to prop up her idiotic and totally false persona

Meanwhile she personally shafted every PayPal subscriber, every person that placed an order and every charity she worked with, and she did so at the same time she performatively called out Wilkos.

Always the hypocrite Monroe

 

[Lucky Escape]

I can’t believe that she elevenerified the f**k out of her own nonsensical £20/week shop for two adults and a child, by saying she makes enough meals for the freezer that once a month (so that’s every third shop-ish) she can splurge on cleaning products. When you look back, it’s bananas that she got away with it for so long.

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Funny how she never includes those spare meals or leftovers in any of her make-work stock-takes, isn't it?

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Is guest trying to get a film critiquing gig or is just underemployed to the point where all she does is watch any old rit that's on, then upload her resulting brain farts on the film to social media?

The latter.

Reaches deep into her Big Box of Over-Hyperbolic Adjectives and away she goes! And because she has such good judgement, none of the films she watches are shyte (otherwise she wouldn't have picked them - she instinctively knows which are the bangers) every comment is a gushing load of cringemaking tripe.

 

[Lazarus]

i'll post s/s here if anyone's interested, though it's not much that would surprise us...
about 18-20 months ago i signed up for Jack's patreon just to get a look at the comments and to see what was going on over there - i paid the £3.5 tier for a month and left again. needless to say i didn't receive a discount code for the defunct website...

i logged onto Patreon yesterday as i want to subscribe to someone else who *does* provide what they say they will, and out of interest i had a look at Jack's to see if anything was visible. As recently as 6/7 months ago there were still people discussing how she hasn't fulfilled any of the rewards and that's at least 2yrs since her big apology and promise to send every single postcard...

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Ah yes, the "simple system" so succinctly explained by two pages of dense text. FFS... Write a meal plan, look in the cupboards to see what ingredients you have/need, write a shopping list. Done. Where's my sideboard?

You've taken all of the magic out of it now.

I don't want to do quarterbacks any more after reading your joyless précis. How could you!

Don't you know we povs have so little in our lives to lift our destitute little hearts, and now you have taken this one thing from us! The JOY that is JACK MONROE . . .

 

[Valiofthedolls]

SHE EVEN WRITES SMALL LIKE SMOL?!?!

That’s not why we do it is it??

Yes.
Too smol.

Spoiler: Yes.

ss @Marmalade Atkins

 

[Claret]

i'll post s/s here if anyone's interested, though it's not much that would surprise us...
about 18-20 months ago i signed up for Jack's patreon just to get a look at the comments and to see what was going on over there - i paid the £3.5 tier for a month and left again. needless to say i didn't receive a discount code for the defunct website...

i logged onto Patreon yesterday as i want to subscribe to someone else who *does* provide what they say they will, and out of interest i had a look at Jack's to see if anything was visible. As recently as 6/7 months ago there were still people discussing how she hasn't fulfilled any of the rewards and that's at least 2yrs since her big apology and promise to send every single postcard...

This is wilfully fraudulent, she knows her apology was a requirement at the time and was designed to quieten the critics

The whole recovery from addiction persona was created to deflect criticism that was swirling around at the time

How she hasn't been effectively called out on this, and how the law hasn't caught up with her is truly baffling

 

[CrackingOwlSanctuary]

Idea for a tv programme: Jack Monroe googles things most adults already know and acts amazed, like Philomena Cunk without the charisma.

 

[Lazarus]

Here's some of the comments from her Patreon; these are marked as from 7 months ago.
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1yr ago:

And this from 2yrs ago which makes me sick (googled her and she's a dentist - you'd like to think she'd have more sense):

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

Yes.
Too smol.

Spoiler: Yes.

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I'll bet she isn't quiet, either, what with ripping all of those radiators off walls, and HOWLING with rage at the injustices of the ebil tories - and we all know she can't cook. A hat trick of lies in three very short sentences.

 

[ForgettyBetty]

Here's some of the comments from her Patreon; these are marked as from 7 months ago.
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1yr ago:
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And this from 2yrs ago which makes me sick (googled her and she's a dentist - you'd like to think she'd have more sense):
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