Jack Monroe #82 Cooking in a boot

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Recap of thread #81

  1. The huge, HUGE photo shoot happened. It involved her running, cooking, dancing ā€“ all in six-inch heels, and ā€˜co-piloted by a very tall, astonishingly handsome manā€™. Ah, perhaps good old Rylan has invited her on to Supermarket Sweep to help build some bridges.
  2. Sadly, itā€™s probably not Iā€™m A Celebrity, but @Bugger13 made our dreams come true through the power of fiction here.
  3. She posted a photo of an absolute scorcher posing in sportswear. Never seen her before in my life. The sentient mirror is not pleased ā€“ this was an image never meant for wider consumption.
  4. Her website is down and there also seems to be an imposter website called CookingOnaBoot.com. The IP address (this lie that influencers spread explained here) is located in Moscow. #OhVlad
  5. She ā€˜madeā€™ some cute lil iced shortbread biscuits, with which to play an archaic game of yesteryear (dominoes).
  6. She posted a ā€˜goodnightā€™ shot ... looking very bright-eyed and wide awake. Hairā€™s coming in nicely. She looked warm enough not to be wearing any jim jams.
  7. Funnily enough, her recent budgeted Asda haul seems to have been ... forgotten? Disappeared into a cloud of ephemera. How can this be? People are still waiting on liver lingreynie, dammit!
  8. She came clean about the shortbread biscuits and their origin (not her oven). Well done, Jack. Baby steps!
  9. She made an appearance in the British Libraryā€™s online event: ā€˜Mood Foodā€™. ā€˜Cooking, eating and mental healthā€™ with Kimberley Wilson. She was late and her Internet connection was poor. @Walkdengirl and @Yel took two for the team and provided live commentary in the last few pages of the thread beginning here.
  10. Thereā€™s a new maverick thanks to @Alansbigplate
Please add any recap points I have missed / couldnā€™t be bothered to record!
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€™
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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.

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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Along with the budget Asda hauls, her poverty fiction book has also disappeared into the same ephemeral cloud.

Deadlines? Who is she? I've never heard of her
 
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Hilarious roundup and fabulously funny title by the beloved couple ā¤ @Pocahontas & @Silver Linings ā¤

Tiny bit disappointed she wonā€™t be on Iā€™m a celeb not gonna lie. Thought we might be in for a comeback of that cheeky little duo



...sometimes it goes wrong, okay?
 
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Oh yes! The book! Surely itā€™s past deadline and due in by now? I do hope Wikipedia and Hansard proved worthy last-minute research resources.
 
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Oh yes! The book! Surely itā€™s past deadline and due in by now? I do hope Wikipedia and Hansard proved worthy last-minute research resources.
The citations should be quite something. "Hansard, Wikipedia and some randoms off Twitter.."
 
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Thank you for the honourable mention.

I believe it will be online for 48 hours is anyone else wants to watch. There were a few brilliant bits where SHE LEFT and all we had was a view of her blue velvet sofa (fancy), and when she was reading tattle (on her other phone) and we just had a view of the side of her head.

She was also clutching a copy of one of her books at one point.

Nothing new, just the usual poverty, fostering, height, fire station stuff (but it went silent for most of that so I'm surmising a bit)

The one thing I learned was she helped write what allowed in packed lunches for school pupils (really?)

She was her usual nervous, quavery voiced self
 
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OK so now I am listening to that talking Tastebuds podcast because I hate myself it's a rainy day and she literally starts out by saying that she's from a working class family (ok Jack) but I've just got to 12 minutes in when she's claiming to have invented putting tea in stuff instead of wine and she's talking about making a risotto and she's saying her autistic brain which fires in so many directions and is very scientific went down this thought process - 'what is the function of wine in a risotto? Well part of it is colour, because it looks nice' and anyway long story short she thinks putting red wine in a risotto is not only a normal thing to do but also looks nice.
 
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OK so now I am listening to that talking Tastebuds podcast because I hate myself it's a rainy day and she literally starts out by saying that she's from a working class family (ok Jack) but I've just got to 12 minutes in when she's claiming to have invented putting tea in stuff instead of wine and she's talking about making a risotto and she's saying her autistic brain which fires in so many directions and is very scientific went down this thought process - 'what is the function of wine in a risotto? Well part of it is colour, because it looks nice' and anyway long story short she thinks putting red wine in a risotto is not only a normal thing to do but also looks nice.
Do you think she ever thinks sheā€™s maybe wrong about anything?
 
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OK so now I am listening to that talking Tastebuds podcast because I hate myself it's a rainy day and she literally starts out by saying that she's from a working class family (ok Jack) but I've just got to 12 minutes in when she's claiming to have invented putting tea in stuff instead of wine and she's talking about making a risotto and she's saying her autistic brain which fires in so many directions and is very scientific went down this thought process - 'what is the function of wine in a risotto? Well part of it is colour, because it looks nice' and anyway long story short she thinks putting red wine in a risotto is not only a normal thing to do but also looks nice.
so, does this mean she puts tea in risotto?? šŸ„“
 
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OK so now I am listening to that talking Tastebuds podcast because I hate myself it's a rainy day and she literally starts out by saying that she's from a working class family (ok Jack) but I've just got to 12 minutes in when she's claiming to have invented putting tea in stuff instead of wine and she's talking about making a risotto and she's saying her autistic brain which fires in so many directions and is very scientific went down this thought process - 'what is the function of wine in a risotto? Well part of it is colour, because it looks nice' and anyway long story short she thinks putting red wine in a risotto is not only a normal thing to do but also looks nice.
This is by far the most shocking revelation yet. Irreverent!
Also, I love the hashtag #saltylenny. I shall try and incorporate it into daily life.
Off to bite into some butter, witches. Chef's kiss.
 
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