Jack Monroe #91 POOR (ISH)

[kachoochoo]

SHE CAN'T EVEN bleeping SPELL BÉCHAMEL

i was wondering what the angry face was for!

 

[Boyo]

Thread suggestion: #92: I’ve got one hand in your pocket and the other one is pulling my troll-eyyy!

 

[Captainmouse]

You are making it at a meal time? So you're planning to eat it? Oh my days, you are brave!

I’ll tell ya, there are some cracking user names coming through

 

[blurstoftimes]

Look what I've found

Lets hope the next item she finds in a magic puddle is her conscience

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

no one else was talking about it (and learn to spell)

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I don’t expect all tv chefs to be cordon bleu trained, but she should at least have some respect for the pillars of cookery.

Have we ever seen her make a soufflé? I wonder why not. Added to the fact they are not expensive to make.

I really need to see this soup to cheer me up.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Have we ever seen her make a soufflé?

She could if she tried! https://tattle.life/threads/jack-monroe-82-cooking-in-a-boot.9963/page-2#post-2541990

 

[Lanie]

There's your answer Jack. I think if Italian mamas have been making it a certain way for so long they probably have it nailed, don't you?

If she can't be ducked to make a basic white sauce the just get a bleeping jar. It's funny she moans about a pan and spoon for a sauce yet, gets the bleeping grater out for corned beef which is bloody well grounded to pulp anyway once you press with a fork. She's a numpty she's really really is.

 

[colouredlines]

This is also mad because béchamel usually features in any beginners' cookbook. It's one of the most versatile things you can make (and cheap, from staple ingredients!). It's not hard to master and once you've got it down, you can make croquetas, fish pie, lasagne, macaroni cheese, dozens of other different sauces...

Horse gunk really is not an adequate substitute.

 

[blurstoftimes]

I have a suggestion for Jack - next time you make a bechamel, try making it on the hob with butter, flour and milk rather than walking all the way to your nearest stables and collecting whatever comes from the gonads of a horse. It'll be both less time consuming and a little more tasty.

 

[Mustard]

I got a pair of those Mahabis slippers for less than £20 at TK Maxx more than a year ago. I thought they went out of business.

 

[Pixieoneeye]

I had a little mooch on street view today, I thought that the tesco express was by itself, but there's a highstreet with shops, and a nisa supermarket. There's a bakers and a fruit and veg shop amongst many others! She must go there as that's where the post office is

This is why I get so cross. Thorpe Bay is literally the most perfect place to live. It's on the beach, the schools are fantastic, the high street is a mix of cool independent shops and has a green grocer, baker etc. Its an hour by train to central London and the houses are fab! She should count her blessings and shut up!

 

[Pocahontas]

I have a suggestion for Jack - next time you make a bechamel, try making it on the hob with butter, flour and milk rather than walking all the way to your nearest stables and collecting whatever comes from the gonads of a horse. It'll be both less time consuming and a little more tasty.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Is @LavaFlake OK??

 

[colouredlines]

I'm also surprised that such a knowledgeable cook has never heard of American lasagne, which replaces béchamel with ricotta (mixed with eggs I think?). I don't particularly like it, but surely it would make sense for someone who is still too tit at cooking to make a roux, 7 years after publishing her first cookbook?

 

[Mustard]

This is why I get so cross. Thorpe Bay is literally the most perfect place to live. It's on the beach, the schools are fantastic, the high street is a mix of cool independent shops and has a green grocer, baker etc. Its an hour by train to central London and the houses are fab! She should count her blessings and shut up!

Is Thorpe Bay the same as Shoeburyness? I’ve only been to Southend once.

 

[blurstoftimes]

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That horse is far too majestic and FANCY for Jack's tastes. Her horse gunk bechamel would be sourced from something more like this...

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

What the hell is she wittering on about? "I could understand if it was a cheese sauce" - MAKE IT WITH A CHEESE SAUCE THEN!! YOU'RE THE ONE COOKING IT!!! WHAT'S PREVENTING YOU GRATING SOME CHEESE IN?

And this - what does she mean 'most of them aren't'? Most of what aren't? Most of the ones you buy readymade?

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"Most of them aren't"

 

[chocolate choux]

Good point about Dolezal. The notable difference there is, she was fairly easy to investigate in terms of not being black, because after some half-hearted digging into her genealogy by any journalist worth their salt, it would be quite simple to find proof that she was not black, and had been identifying as black, when she was in fact white and of German, Czech and Swedish heritage.

With Jack, her many, many ailments, physical and mental, would be hard to disprove. Her tales of poverty perhaps less so, but still some thing a journalist might not be so inclined to sift through.

I agree that it would be a massive scoop and she deserves to be shown up. We just all wish that her poverty-stricken identity she chooses to pass off in order to hold onto to a careered identity of selling books and appearing on telly inevitably DIDN’T lead to kind-hearted people wanting to give her money.

I can see what you mean about Jack’s case being less clear-cut and requiring more digging re: her medical claims. She does offer some blatant lies (the physical impossibilities of her lip bitten down to the nerve/broken foot bones) but in terms of the diagnoses it would seem pretty much impossible - and possibly unethical - to disprove them with patient confidentiality etc. I’m not sure about the legalities in this country but I doubt it’d be considered in the public interest to know unless she was directly profiting from her alleged illnesses like Belle Gibson did

I agree that her poverty claims would be an easier route, imo the best one as that’s her main shtick and what she has built a career on/profits from. The various other dramatics are used as subplots. But yeah, a lot of work and would require someone dedicated!

Jon Ronson’s book about public shaming involved a story of a broke journalist exposing an academic for making up quotes. Apparently it was a big story over in America and seriously affected the academic’s reputation. The journalist made next to nothing from the whole incident and I believe he was left feeling tit about what he’d done. Judging from that, I can understand the reluctance to get involved with exposing someone

It is a scoop especially if pinned to specifics like the £20 donation. It would have been properly done in an earlier era of holding public figures to account across the board - and investigative journalism being better funded. But news media being so polarised AND impoverished just means there's a danger of a shallow expose that plays to her dramas & wins her more sympathy. The Daily Mail/Spectator/Times covering it- attack on a leftie! Julie Burchill going in like she did on Eric Joyce - attack on a gendery person! Etc. Best would be if it was someone with a more solid history than her of REAL anti-poverty activism and/or food knowledge...

Thanks for the insight. I did think it was odd that no one seemed to do any digging after the whole ‘MY GRANDFATHER IS DEAD!’ incident but thinking about it like this it’s understandable that an exposé could be viewed as another attack from the right. Also not sure the bigger journalists would want to expose her as it might draw attention to their own generally privileged backgrounds... (from what I’ve heard, as I said pretty clueless!)

 

[PoorPatrol]

They are in need of a clip and paint (usually they are various shades of red) but freshly brushed this morning and after chopping ingredients, as I always do.

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Wtf is going on here, is that a hot pan? You’re doing it all wrong babes

 

[Captainmouse]

SHE CAN'T EVEN bleeping SPELL BÉCHAMEL

Because, she doesn’t know what it is, she certainly can’t cook it, she's too lazy to learn how to spell it and she’s BUSY! stacking empty foil containers to put in the non switched on freezer