Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Jelly Bean]

She really is a self obsessed horror these days. I always had as soft spot for her as she replied very kindly to a tweet of mine years ago. (Yes easily p!eased). Her milking kind hearted people for money is very low.

 

[Belulah]

I had to google that perfume brand, that’s how poor I am, and I’m probably her target audience. So unrelateble. And the 20hrs of work a day. I feel like she started by saying 12 and then it crept up but does anyone believe that someone in her job would sit at a desk for twenty hours. Twenty!

 

[PineappleQueen19]

When is that from? I’m pretty sure she asked to be referred to as ‘they/them’ at one point.

Wouldn’t surprise me, seems she enjoys creating confusion

Article here https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...woman-or-a-man-interview-transgender-identity

I found the article confusing because she mentions wanting to be seen as neither male nor female but ‘as a person’ - but in the shoot dresses as a feminine woman with stereotypical feminine poses/expressions, then in masculine dress with stereotypically male stance/expression. Which to me translates to the opposite of what she said. And reinforces gender stereotypes. Or am I missing something?

 

[JellyWobbles]

God she’s such a victim.
Leaves her inbox open for ‘crisis’ here’s a thought Jack, use some of your ££ invest in your website for benefits advice and ££/Food.. heck even set up a phone line. stop being a martyr

 

[Smallpotato]

I mean who wants to eat a tinned peach curry?

this is one of the receipts I tried when times were hard and I had a weaning baby. It was vile and made me more depressed.

 

[Horatio]

She wanted the oppurtunity to say
'i was first choice to present because I am the pioneer of cooking with tins, but I couldn't because i'm immunocompromised and my mental health is suffering.
Jamie has stolen my job off me and took my income.
I've lost so much income due to being immunocompromised so now I'm starving too. Please donate to my paypal.'

Surely if she really cared about the healthy eating on a budget cause she would be happy people will be getting affordable recipes whoever demonstrates them? Maybe a little privately disappointed but glad for the greater good. She's such a charlatan.

 

[Mustard]

Oh I'd never checked out her instagram before. This made me laugh her going on and on about what's probably just frozen bananas and blackcurrants blended. She makes it sound as if her job as as hard as neuroscience.

Banana nicecream was a big thing 5+ years ago, it's been done to death.
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Faaark, I did frozen bananas 20 years ago. Something new? She’s utterly weird.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

90 hours a week! Yeah right. Probably even counts cooking meals in that as “recipe testing”.

 

[Busted]

Sorry, new to thread so probably already been mentioned, but what happened to her crippling arthritis? How does she do the hours she claims to do, working with her hands constantly and now it’s never mentioned? Same as her alcoholism. Never mentioned having a problem (which, let’s face it, she would not have kept quiet about) then suddenly she makes a huge thing about giving up drink as she’s got a serious drink addiction?? Which again, seems to have been forgotten now she has new things to talk about.

 

[JulieScoobyDoo]

Channel 4 pays far more than the BBC and Michael Grade has previously said the salaries there are obscene Its likely she’s on over £250k. A comma Director five years ago was on double that so it could well be a lot more

 

[Heyholetsgo]

She'll be saying she invented semolina next, even though it was out before she was born

 

[PineappleQueen19]

“Broken back” lol. And the 20 hours bullshit again. She’s living in a permanent state of hyperbole.

 

[Catwinky]

FFs, can’t you just put the hoops on some toast and be happy. Why chickpeas only everything?

I can't be the only one who fucking hates chickpeas. Not one tin of little bastards has crossed my threshold in the entire of this pandemic

Surely if she really cared about the healthy eating on a budget cause she would be happy people will be getting affordable recipes whoever demonstrates them? Maybe a little privately disappointed but glad for the greater good. She's such a charlatan.

I honestly believe than after she got an outpouring of sympathy after publishing 'hunger hurts' she became addicted to being a victim and the attention it got her.
So now it is the only thing that truely motivates her.
She can't do ANYTHING without it affecting her health, income or mental wellbeing.

 

[SqualorVictoria]

I honestly don't see it as bullying. Jamie Oliver is a household name with a cookery empire. Jack Monroe is a loud voice on twitter. I see her as a small yappy dog barking at his heels. I doubt hes particularly bothered if he's even aware at all. When you're famous as long as he has been, your used to public criticism. Jack may see herself as a celebrity not member of 'the public' but I doubt Jamie does.

It is bullying, regardless of the stature of the person on the receiving end or how they may or may not be bothered by it

 

[maytoseptember]

Munchie as in Munchausens. There are so many women (always women) faking and exaggerating illnesses and disabilities for attention on the internet.

 

[Mycuppatea]

Jack has a very distinctive, and to many people, off putting and unpleasant, appearance and demeanour. She is much more a niche interest than Jamie Oliver and often in difficult times people want pleasant and calm and cheerful familiar faces. I don't actually like Jamie and have no tv so I wont be watching, but I'd far rather see him than her, sorry not sorry.

 

[maytoseptember]

And why replace sugar with honey and then add a banana which has high levels of fructose and the crap on top. A basic sponge cake would have been better.

I think it’s because ingredient swapping has become her “thing” - it ties into the poverty angle and the (now abandoned) vegan angle. None of her recipes ever seem to be basic and straightforward. I think it’s because she can’t compete with the mainstream cooks making pastry and Victoria sponges so she has to be a bit wacky and alternative instead.

Also, those pancakes might photograph cute for Instagram but no way would I want to eat pancakes with a ton of gold glitter and sprinkles dumped on top. Hopefully her son did

 

[PineappleQueen19]

 

[bunsofsteel]

The woman is intensely unlikeable. I don't get the hype at all. I have always thought she comes across as having a massive chip on her shoulder.

 

[ChilliBean]

She’s so entitled!! I couldn’t work out who she was referring to but all of her followers have piled on and are now slagging off jamie Oliver in the comments. I don’t particularly care for Jamie Oliver but seems really spiteful of her to do this