Jack Monroe #65 Green gages and ham

[Ac789]

A while ago Shivi posted pictures from a supper club she did 4 years ago. This is the kind of quality jack can only dream of

 

[crystaleyesd]

A while ago Shivi posted pictures from a supper club she did 4 years ago. This is the kind of quality jack can only dream of

They'd better be edible flowers or Jack will be FIZZING with rage.

 

[Cat_scratches]

Spotted this little exchange on insta on Thursday night. Someone probably already shared it. I am very behind, I'm busy don't you know

 

[Pigman]

To be fair it would be quite an achievement to mess up Mac & cheese from a can.

Blended? Actually I am having flashbacks to when my dad was in hospital and we referred to his tube food as macaroni cheese....bleargh!

 

[Veronicaaa]

For twenty years I've stared my level best
To see if evening—any evening —would suggest
A patient etherized upon a table;
In vain. I simply wasn't able.

(C. S. Lewis)

Yesssss - a poetry clapback, I love it! (Describing an evening as being like a patient etherized on a table is incredibly weird and creepy, isn't it?).

I hate vegetables with mac and cheese, pls don't ruin my delicious plate of carbs 'n' starch with your healthy tit, it's so WRONG.

 

[Bookweevil]

@Fiddledeedee here you go, get the eye bleach ready! https://tattle.life/threads/jack-mo...uick-jack-stop-being-such-a-dick.6676/page-14

 

[Captainmouse]

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This just reinforces my suspicion that her followers know absolutely duck all about food

Let’s be honest, anybody with a clue and more than one tastebud, wouldn’t follow mackie

 

[FlowerOfTheEast]

It is actually poetry, though I'm not sure that I entirely agree with the literary world's opinion. It's a relatively well known couple of lines (well, perhaps more well known by those of us that have been forced to suffer from it) from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

Etc, etc, et bloody cetera.

Oh dear, well I am showing my ignorance there. I had a sinking feeling just after I'd posted that it would turn out to be the work of a Famous Poet. I still don't think it's much good though, sorry T.S. old chap, but I'm clearly an unlearned oik so what do I know?!

 

[MancBee]

Oh dear, well I am showing my ignorance there. I had a sinking feeling just after I'd posted that it would turn out to be the work of a Famous Poet. I still don't think it's much good though, sorry T.S. old chap, but I'm clearly an unlearned oik so what do I know?!

You are not on your own. I would say in our defence, quoting a few lines of a poem without the context of the rest of it completely looses its meaning.

Though overall, after reading the full poem added by @Blurp I am in agreement with @Veronicaaa " Describing an evening as being like a patient etherized on a table is incredibly weird and creepy, isn't it"

 

[crystaleyesd]

Oh dear, well I am showing my ignorance there. I had a sinking feeling just after I'd posted that it would turn out to be the work of a Famous Poet. I still don't think it's much good though, sorry T.S. old chap, but I'm clearly an unlearned oik so what do I know?!

It's an easy mistake to make...oor Jackie does tend to speak with the florid, turgid prose of a turn of the century affected intellectual

I mostly find Eliot pretty overblown, but I do quite like the Four Quartets:

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,
And dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach de Gotha
And the Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors,
And cold the sense and lost the motive of action.
And we all go with them, into the silent funeral,
Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury.

 

[MooBelle]

Morning cabal. Apologies for harking back to the previous thread..
Why was that steak and mushroom thing green? I don't understand

 

[blurstoftimes]

OMG!!! After I brought up the fact that this book was mentioned 4 years ago and never completed...hi jack FYI looking your purple risotto made me almost throw up

 

[Billybellend]

It is actually poetry, though I'm not sure that I entirely agree with the literary world's opinion. It's a relatively well known couple of lines (well, perhaps more well known by those of us that have been forced to suffer from it) from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

Etc, etc, et bloody cetera.

I must most respectfully disagree; I love TS Eliot (though I didn’t study his prose at school, which is probably why!!). Sigh. That’s another thing she’s fucked for me then. I’ll add it to the List of Fucked Things That I Previously Used To Like:
Risotto
Macaroni Cheese
Pianos
Sideboards
Cats
Tatts
Hats
Flowers
TS Eliot

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Morning cabal. Apologies for harking back to the previous thread..
Why was that steak and mushroom thing green? I don't understand

And steak is fairly expensive so why would you want to blend one?! Admittedly this is from *whispers* Ocado but from memory a sirloin starts at £6 odd, so fancy turning one into Shrek’s swamp

 

[crystaleyesd]

And steak is fairly expensive so why would you want to blend one?! Admittedly this is from *whispers* Ocado but from memory a sirloin starts at £6 odd, so fancy turning one into Shrek’s swamp

Gonna go out on a limb and assume it's rinsed tinned stewing steak

 

[SoulRebel]

OMG!!! After I brought up the fact that this book was mentioned 4 years ago and never completed...hi jack FYI looking your purple risotto made me almost throw up

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It's both a memoir ....
REALLY?

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Gonna go out on a limb and assume it's rinsed tinned stewing steak

I had no idea this was a thing, erm... thank you Still expensive for a JM horror, wonder how she got the cost per vomit down x

 

[I steal names]

Morning all. Did an epic Grunka to catch up. Feel bilious from the thought of fish fingers and tinned macaroni cheese. Then worse from the various green/purple slops she's ephemerally produced recently. (In the vein of Jack, I'm now using words however I please, meaning doesnt matter)

Its the weekend, wonder what shenanigans she'll get up to if she's ALONE...

 

[Nottonightbabe]

OMG!!! After I brought up the fact that this book was mentioned 4 years ago and never completed...hi jack FYI looking your purple risotto made me almost throw up

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Hmmm I just can't see how she's going to produce something that focuses on the experiences and stories of others...

Can just see her interviewing people, constantly interrupting to top trump/out pov them. It'll be a struggle for her to shut up and put others at the centre of anything.

Though granted, I'm sure there will be a good chunk of her going over the same old story again...

 

[crystaleyesd]

I had no idea this was a thing, erm... thank you Still expensive for a JM horror, wonder how she got the cost per vomit down x

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Dear heart, I do hope this new revelation will result in you delighting your tastebuds with this whimsical concoction:

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2019/07/22/beef-black-bean-mandarin-stew-recipe/