Jack Monroe #76 £300 mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the poorest of us all?

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Recap of thread #75

  1. The frauen and herren had a lovely old time laughing about the day The Earth Stood Still (thread 31) and fondly reminisced over our best burns to Jack. Thanks @Alansbigplate for the memories.
  2. New tidbit for the Jack fact file: at 2am in the morning she dream tweets in Czech. Sadly, her Czech words were ephemeral.
  3. @crystaleyesd triangulated Jack’s next-level £300 Harrods mirror (as seen in a picture of her bedroom broadcast on Twitter). Apparently, it’s WiFi enabled. The mirror is ... aware. Personally, I’d be fairly concerned if I were sleeping next to I, Mirror every night.
  4. Don’t ever let it be said that she’s not serious about stocktaking and colour charting. 🤷🏻‍♀️
  5. Yikes, mcyikes, poor Jack, she’s out of leeway to buy any more nice furniture! That’s ok, Jack, I think you completed the Spring/Summer 2020 Cotswold Co. catalogue in time. Ooft, good job you got to keep that free sofa, hey?
  6. She’s back to what she does best: cooking questionable ... just questionable. Stuffing and vinegar in a sausage ‘casserole’? Veg fried in lard and garnished with chard? My, my, what a peripatetic group of flavour profiles.
  7. Guess what? Who wants to come to a Frugalong? That’s a frugal cook-along to the non-maverick. Jack will live tweet her recipes. Nothing like a watch-along party to give life to the cabal.
  8. Sod it, she gave a sneak preview of one her future recipes Now. We’re ‘enjoying’ it 16 months early, and hope the missing salt will catch up with us in the Future.
  9. Is there nothing she cannot do? Hold on to your wet hens, she’s invented alcohol-free kombuchisky. Whiskucha. She’s going to crack the alcohol-free market, by Jove! She’s courting as much interest in it as she was in the twenty minutes she spent planning to open a small restaurant for shits and giggles (literally).
  10. Ever the scathing essayist, Jack’s latest hill on which to die has arisen from the mire: the exact correct shade of Fortnum and Mason’s blue. And she threw duck-egg blue shade at JKR before running away and bidding to all a goodnight!
  11. Ouchy mouth strikes AGAIN. Don’t anybody be suggesting any remedies, y’all. She knows them, she’s done them, they don’t work. Now (you guessed it) ... duck off (but listen with unending sympathy).
  12. Twenty-one days till the book needs to be in, Jack! Is it on the to-do list? <scampers away>

Please add any points I have missed! Don’t know about you, but this princess is exhausted. Don’t even ask about the raccoon.
For new joiners to the thread, here is @Passive_Aggressive_Lemon ‘s ‘Jack for Dummies’ post (edited to include updated info):

Thought it might be useful for new followers to have a post at the start of each thread with some info.
Limegoss article about Jack versus Jamie Oliver : https://limegoss.com/jack-monroe-jamie-oliver/

Thread #31 is the infamous one in which Jack turns up to talk to us directly. She makes her appearance on p. 17.

For anyone wanting to relive the glory days of her two-week stint on Daily Kitchen Live (DKL), have a grunk a through threads 2-9.

*** JACKISMS ***

Jack’s most oft-used reply to questions on recipe substitutions:

Yes, absolutely x

Some other favourite Jack quotes:

‘Babe, same’

‘I did a chaos’

‘My maverick brain’

‘My sad little face’

‘I’m BUSY’

‘I HOOTED / I am FIZZING’

‘I laughed up a lung’

One of Jack’s followers once referred to Tattlers as sad hausfraus and Jack herself has likened us to a cabal. Therefore we have become the Cabal of Hausfraus™️. She also recently referred to us as ‘gossip mavens’ (so, we are gossip trusted experts). ** Recent additions to her terms of endearment for Tattle: conspiracy wankers, obsessive groups of completely unhinged bullies, bullying ninnies, and malign, vicious bullies **

To ‘GrunkaLunka’ your way through a thread means to catch up on posts. Named after a member who rather epically caught up on many threads in a short period of time (and is also a fearless pioneer of the space-time continuum. She really was here both Now and Then).

Jack once threatened to use her Liam Neeson skills to TRIANGULATE our whereabouts in order to intimidate us, so that’s what we mean by that. * She may also threaten to take us to court - do not be afraid, this is not the first time and it won’t be the last. *

Jack once sideboard modelled a Vivienne Westwood dress, seeming to infer that it’s what Viv would have wanted (as if she were dead), and then got snippy when corrected otherwise. There may be some ‘RIP Viv’ jokes (she is, of course, NOT dead)

We sometimes joke about being on Vladimir Putin’s bitcoin payroll list for being evil trolls.

During her stint on Daily Kitchen Live, Jack produced a godawful looking lasagne, with a thin white sauce that never thickened up, just disappeared. It was widely likened to ‘horse spunk’ - there may be some horse ‘spirit’ lasagne jokes.

Her last-uttered line to Matt Tebutt on DKL was: ‘Thank you so Matt much, Matt’, which made us all HOOT.

Jack ended a tweet that listed her (not unimpressive) four-and-a-half GCSE results (A*, A, B, B, C) with: ‘Now duck off’. We sometimes like to use this in our own posts for comedic effect. We are NOT telling other fraus to duck off, simply paying homage to Jack’s own genteel humour.

*Back in the mists of time, one funny frau used a Jimmy Nail ‘She’s Lying’ picture to illustrate their thoughts on one of Jack’s latest tales. @Alpha Beta thought it was Novak Djokovic, the cabal hooted and Novak Nail was born. You may see reference to Jimmy Nail, Novak Djokovic, or the combination of both: Novak Nail. All demonstrate that she’s lying.*

Also:
  • She grew up in a 5-bed (mortgaged/owned) house
  • She got a £4.5k Omega watch for her 21st birthday
  • Her dad's a bleeping LANDLORD (an oldy, but a goody)
  • Jack and Louisa are no longer in a relationship - in Jack’s words: ‘She [Louisa] left’.
  • Her record for staying off Twitter since the start of these threads is 114 hours and 47 minutes.
  • She is 90% vegan. The other 10% likes to nom nom on Five Guys burger and discounted chicken slices.
  • During her appearance on DKL, she was asked why some mince has a higher fat content. ‘It just does.’
  • The information held on her by Companies House has her year of birth WRONG. She was born in 1988, not 1978.

Here is a link to Jack’s Tattle Wiki page, which also includes clips of Matt Tebutt muttering ‘Terrible!’ on Daily Kitchen Live, courtesy of @Yel) and @Bookweevil ‘s hilarious Glossary of Jack.

We are terrible for going off on tangents and using too many gifs, so there is another thread where we don’t discuss JM but instead talk about biscuits and stuff. For good light relief when JM is doing too much chaos, come to the Food & Drink threads in Off Topic.
 
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If she does get a dental appointment the first thing they are going to ask is - have you had any symptoms of coronavirus recently 🧐
 
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Thanks to an attention to detail that Jack can only dream of, Princess after reading that

 
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Stellar recap! Even more stellerier than the last.

Meanwhile Jack is still twatting on about colours and is glad her ‘branding’ a few years ago was close to Tiffany blue.

Ken Loach needs to make this film immediately. A poor urchin and her quest to make sure luxury brands are coloured correctly.

Oh and an ex used to correct her on everything. Okely dokely.

Sod it.
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Off I scamper. 😂
 
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  1. Ever the scathing essayist, Jack’s latest hill on which to die has arisen from the mire: the exact correct shade of Fortnum and Mason’s blue. And she threw duck-egg blue shade at JKR before running away and bidding to all a goodnight!
Jack scampering off to bed like:

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Brilliant recap once again @Pocahontas ! 👑
 
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Love the recap pocahontas and hope the raccoon is ok.
Will we be treated to photos from inside the dental surgery today?
 
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Wonderful recap, thanks @Pocahontas! I have yo solemnly swear I won't spend as much time scrolling Tattle today. But the return of ouchy mouth doesn't bode well for this. Have a break, Jack.

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Was it not only last week* that you were telling us that your son is your infallible alarm clock? When he comes into your bedroom every morning for a cuddle to start the day?

I’m not against bacon rolls, or in fact cuddles. But I’m against your nonsense.

*I know, I know - this is NOW
 

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How on earth did she manage to eat that with her severely, ouchy, hurty, painy wainy, worst pain ever, send me doggos/cattos/birdos toothache?
 

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So the whole JKR trans argument went on ages ago, Jackie was apparently up in arms, and yet she’s reading her book. So she’s reading JKR’s book despite having a deadline, a 20hr work day, a kid, an ouchy mouth, and an inbox full of political prisoners. Wow, Jack! It’s almost as if you’re reading it to deliberately find inane tit to rant about!!

And another thing! The Fortnums colour is surely neither Eau de Nil or Duck Egg. I’m only going from various little irreverent titbits of knowledge on brands, and the way they do things. I would assume that F&M went out of their way to use a colour that was as individual as possible? So if you saw different black initials against the exact fortnums colour you’d think of that shop, wouldn’t you? Same as if you saw someone’s name written in the Harrods font, you’d think of Harrods, because it’s quite unique. It’s like arguing the toss whether the Coca-Cola red is oxblood or scarlet, surely it’s just neither! I wouldn’t expect much less really from someone who spends 20 hours a day on Twitter trying to sabotage their own brand 🤷‍♀️
 
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Was it not only last week* that you were telling us that your son is your infallible alarm clock? When he comes into your bedroom every morning for a cuddle to start the day?

I’m not against bacon rolls, or in fact cuddles. But I’m against your nonsense.

*I know, I know - this is NOW
Well, that looks........dry.
Surely even the bagel is more than 17p? I didn't take any notice of her shop, was it all yellow stickered? Doesn't mean that price is achievable for everyone though.
 
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Was it not only last week* that you were telling us that your son is your infallible alarm clock? When he comes into your bedroom every morning for a cuddle to start the day?

I’m not against bacon rolls, or in fact cuddles. But I’m against your nonsense.

*I know, I know - this is NOW
He's now a 'pre teen', too, not an ikkle wikkle miniature SB (for now anyway...)
 
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Wow Jack did you have a good night's sleep too as well as that lovely breakfast? Did you momentarily forget you have ouchy toothache?
 
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Well, that looks........dry.
Surely even the bagel is more than 17p? I didn't take any notice of her shop, was it all yellow stickered? Doesn't mean that price is achievable for everyone though.
Yes, her doughnuts and bagels were reduced. I feel a bit dirty knowing that!
 
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