Jack Monroe #78 All of your food is brown

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Recap of thread #77

  1. Jack Monroe let security levels slide and the picture of the tuna courgette gratin was shown without the cartoon filter. She probably suspected that no-one actually wanted to triangulate that ... meal.
  2. Good Christ, sheā€™s a furry. And sheā€™s provided an affiliate link so that you can be one too.
  3. Sheā€™s researching her poverty memoir Now. Surely all the preliminary research should have been completed by this stage ... thank goodness for Wikipedia and her steadfast appetite for joie de vivre, thatā€™s all I can say.
  4. Something fishy this way comes. Sheā€™s not only having to deal with parody Twitter accounts, but also parody tinned fish. Smart Price sardines had the appalling cheek to cosplay as Tesco Finest, and found their way onto her lunch plate.
  5. She has a huge, HUGE photoshoot next week and sheā€™s going to have to wear a bra for the first time in, like, a decade. (The last sentence may or may not be true.)
  6. She made some stirfried stuff. More porky goodness. Complete with photos of the Asda SP products used to make the stirfry - just to put our minds at rest that there was no more of that sneaky Tesco Finest tit muscling its way in.
  7. For a fun delve into the brief history of Jack, take a look at some of her historical rebuttals underneath her Guardian recipes here courtesy of @lilamay. Nothing ever new under the soft wool sun in Jackā€™s strive for personal justice.
  8. Sheā€™s got a picture of David Cameron taped up in her work area. What a ludicrous prune.
  9. Jack Monroe, the seasonal harbinger has announced winter. She owns a Burberry scarf. Calm your collective tits: probably a gift
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    For new joiners to the thread, here is @Passive_Aggressive_Lemon ā€˜s ā€˜Jack for Dummiesā€™ 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 ***

    Jackā€™s most oft-used reply to questions on recipe substitutions:

    Yes, absolutely x

    Some other favourite Jack quotes:

    ā€˜Babe, sameā€™

    ā€˜I did a chaosā€™

    ā€˜My maverick brainā€™

    ā€˜My sad little faceā€™

    ā€˜Iā€™m BUSYā€™

    ā€˜I HOOTED / I am FIZZINGā€™

    ā€˜I laughed up a lungā€™
    šŸ„“
    One of Jackā€™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 Hausfrausā„¢ļø. She also recently referred to us as ā€˜gossip mavensā€™ (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 ā€˜GrunkaLunkaā€™ 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 thatā€™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 wonā€™t be the last. *

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

    We sometimes joke about being on Vladimir Putinā€™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 ā€˜horse spunkā€™ - there may be some horse ā€˜spiritā€™ lasagne jokes.

    Her last-uttered line to Matt Tebutt on DKL was: ā€˜Thank you so Matt much, Mattā€™, 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: ā€˜Now duck offā€™. 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 Jackā€™s own genteel humour.

    *Back in the mists of time, one funny frau used a Jimmy Nail ā€˜Sheā€™s Lyingā€™ picture to illustrate their thoughts on one of Jackā€™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 sheā€™s lying.*

    Also:
    • She grew up in a 5-bed (mortgaged/owned) house
    • She got a Ā£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 Jackā€™s words: ā€˜She [Louisa] leftā€™.
    • 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. ā€˜It just does.ā€™
    • The information held on her by Companies House has her year of birth WRONG. She was born in 1988, not 1978.
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    Here is a link to Jackā€™s Tattle Wiki page, which also includes clips of Matt Tebutt muttering ā€˜Terrible!ā€™ on Daily Kitchen Live, courtesy of @Yel) and @Bookweevil ā€˜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 donā€™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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Thank you again Poca!

You deserve your favourite Brad Pitt gif for all your hard work:




And good one Breakdance! A corker of a thread title šŸ˜„
 
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Just spent my entire lunch break on the Grunka Express (with @GrunkaLunka herself by the sounds of it, what an honour. First class and we didn't socially distance, just as Jackie would have wanted).

So many thoughts, but one particular statement from me for the record: I only LIKE @Silver Linings and @MarmiteExtract 's posts featuring screenshots because they (and a few others) are so wonderful about keeping a record and sharing. Your honour, I do NOT LIKE the actual content of those tweets. Phew, I feel better now.

The anchovy to your ovary.
 
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Htf are we in a new thread already, I havenā€™t even finished grunka-ing the last one
At this rate Iā€™m going to have to give up work to become a full time Frau
 
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Not sure if it's been asked, she said Mrs J joined Tattle, was it her awakening? She left her after/around the DKL time didn't she?

ETA was everyone aware Mrs J was here?
 
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Not sure if it's been asked, she said Mrs J joined Tattle, was it her awakening? She left her after/around the DKL time didn't she?
If I remember correctly, Jack claimed Mrs J joined Tattle after she left.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm fully expecting them to get back together.
 
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Beautiful Summary @Pocahontas. And delighted that you managed to squeeze the ludicrous prune in! (That probably came out worse than I'd intended!)
 
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I wonder who MrsJ was on tattle if she ever really joined.
Going back to Jack's food shops, I don't think she eats the smart price stuff at all although I'm worried she does feed that white to her son. She is selfish to the core.
 
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If I remember correctly, Jack claimed Mrs J joined Tattle after she left.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm fully expecting them to get back together.

Given their joint stupid giggling glee over such a silly thing like hiding THAT MAN'S books in book shops I'd say they deserve each other.
 
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From fb. Had a quick scroll and got no idea what this person is on about unless they mean the cartoon filter posts? Nobody should be glad Jack is cooking IMHO.
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Blimey I've a whole thread to catch upon as I was too busy napping like a dinosaur.
 
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If I remember correctly, Jack claimed Mrs J joined Tattle after she left.

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm fully expecting them to get back together.
Could it have been a faux split? Maybe Mrs J had to distance herself from JNā€™s chaotic shithousery to secure the C4 gig? Maybe Mrs J has continued to endure the brown food in secret?
 
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Thank you @Pocahontas - I live for these summaries! These threads move so fast! On my lunch break, will be back later to grunka my way through the last thread and this!
 
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Thank you @Pocahontas šŸ˜˜

Welcome back @IndigoStar, enjoy your Grunka!

Itā€™s 12 degrees with quite a cold wind coming off the seafront today. Personally my favourite weather but I can see why someone like Jack would need to wrap up. She has got many ailments after all.
 
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