Jack Monroe #61 Complete, made up, fanciful nuclear-level bollocks

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It's really as if she is NOT A CHEF!
Not even a home cook.
I love cooking, I did it as a job, I'm pretty good at it.i don't claim to be a chef or a cook, I just enjoy cooking. I enjoy spending little and making the most of limited resources.
I just can't over the fact that on a good app she has posted roasted veg.
Not even good roasted veg.
Literal fridge gravel
 
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Apparently it takes 2.5 months or 10 weeks to break a habit, considering Jack's addictive personality, I'm surprised her GP or MH team didn't suggest to leave all social media or at least stay away for a decent period of time to break the obsessive cycle.
 
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Absolutely agree. It’s like my mum always told me, judge people by how they treat animals and waiters/waitresses.
 
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They probably did but she seems to pick and choose as to what advice she wants to take.
 
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She's not a chef. She's a home cook who got lucky because of Austerity Chic. And not a very good home cook either, by the looks of it.

The only conclusion to all of it is that she's mad. Don't look for consistency, or try to make things add up, because they won't. An unstable personality who will say anything to anyone for effect, a pathological liar with nothing grounded in fact. It's part of whatever condition she really has.
 
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Jammy bastards! My kitchen is from the 90s. Functional but in dire need of updating and extending but I just can't afford it any time soon. These people are often all ready well off middle class types, they don't need stuff gifted. I would love to see those companies gifting poorer people, hell even the insta mummies could pass their gifts on.
 
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Honestly, can you imagine her turning up at a meeting, what a test of your sobriety *that* would be.
God yes. Can you imagine telling your story, only for our Jackie to jump in with her dreary monotone voice moaning about how she’s had it so much worse.
 
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It’s Foodim. Set up by Nigella Lawson and one of her camera men.
Why Mom? I get that it’s a midlands thing. But not Southend afaik?

And northern Irish would be mam (mammy) rather than mom, if anything, wouldn’t it?
<sigh>

Maybe it’s a Cypriot Greek thing?

... or Scottish...

Maybe she’s going American next y’all?
 
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She’s a one trick pony. The “trick” in question being tin can cookery. And even that’s a bit old hat now - plus other people are doing it better and in a more appealing way (admittedly that’s a low bar).
The food industry is really competitive and it’s absolutely crammed with talented people, there are loads of really amazing people to follow on Instagram or YouTube who do appealing recipes, put up beautiful photos, and can talk intelligently about wider food issues (farming, health, local producers etc). Jack does none of this.
For some unfathomable reason, she thinks she should have Jamie’s or Nigella’s career. She’s completely deluded.
 
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I have a Ed .I do find some of her descriptions of her eating a bit triggering.Mental health conditions should not be on a sliding scale of accessibility .You don't get to pick and choose but you can try to adjust or work away at it to try to help yourself but always realising for some people it's way harder and not always possible

Next recipy pity fish
 
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‘The rains’

Jesus bloody wept.
Yes...!! She's gone all Steinbeck. Yuk. Her floridly biblical language. And was it a good day? I thought she was on a downer, reading a self help book whilst taking carefully composed pictures of her own bottom.
 
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