Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Yel]

In fairness the basic proportions of scones, banana bread, sponge cake etc are more or less the same across the board, can't reinvent the wheel
This is not a defence of Jack

Agreed, but jack seems to want a lot of cash and credit for copying other recipes and leaving out a ingredient or using something cheaper. Aka common sense as people have been doing for a long long time.

Her whole Twitter advice could be replaced with a 16 grid bingo column, or maybe that's generous and 9 squares is ample.

 

[Chinwag]

I can’t believe i’m saying this as someone who has long been irritated by Jamie but the way Jack has been singling him out is totally uncalled for.

Jamie more than likely was asked by Channel 4 to do this as he’s had a relationship with them for a long time and even if he approached them who gives a toss?!?!

Breaking news Jack you aren’t even close to being the first person who demonstrated cooking on the cheap and guess what neither is bloody Jamie Oliver !!!

I’m cringing inside for her, she’s coming across so desperate and socially unaware.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

I can imagine she's paid £2000-4000 for attending a corporate along side free lunch and executive transport from her door so she doesn't have to brave public transport. Not bad for a few hours work.

She's worrying about losing these events so seems to be trying to hoover up as much money as possible right at the start of this while people still have it.

Yep, she’s basically stockpiling goodwill via cash donations while the getting is good. It’s appalling.

In a month she’ll switch to dishing out scraps of charitable behaviour which will be minuscule compared to what she’s raking in at the moment.

 

[GoLando]

Good point here - don’t behave like a charity if you can’t handle any scrutiny.

Sure manages to spend a lot of time on Twitter...

 

[Heyholetsgo]

I work in the town where she lives! Going to look out for her now and see if she is carrying Iceland bags or Waitrose bags, then we will know the truth

 

[PineappleQueen19]

What is wrong with people?

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

Yup, once she realises she doesn’t have leagues if adoring fans tuning in she’ll have a temper tantrum and rage quit, saying she “doesn’t have enough time”

 

[megsmagoo]

Oh god she’s being such a cunt about it I’m sure Jamie now wants nothing to do with her

 

[ChilliBean]

Ha!

 

[notthefullshilling]

She seems to be behaving rather manically? As in the clinical sense? It's a lot. I'd be worried about her if I was her partner.

 

[Satisfying Click]

Aye, she can't even get the dish correct - Jamie Oliver made a boo-boo calling it jerk rice a la spices from jerk chicken. Nowt to do with jollof which hails from west African nations.

 

[Heyholetsgo]

She reminds me of the girls at senior school who always created drama out of nothing and made up lies for attention. Except she kind of hasn't really grown out of it.

Shame as if she was just authentic she'd probably be alright, I'd rather see her Greek side come out to play, be way more fun

 

[MrsGarcia]

Yes, this!

"I never really liked [ingredient] because of [childhood experience]. But then Mr/Mrs [name of blog] and I were walking around the farmer's market and decided to [verb]. With the addition of [umami] it made for a [nice dish] I am now utterly sold and even the [children's names] asked for more."

(no disrespect to the poster above btw, your insights were very interesting)

Yes to this I often leave blogs if the recipe is too far down. It's very sweet and I appreciate content but I'm also hangry and lazy

 

[Yel]

I watched the last few minutes. Simple pasta sauces that jack could have never pulled it off. She's dillusional and has made a right tit of her self.

 

[Catwinky]

Thread title suggestion: jack monroe: food cupboard 'star' off the BBC, did you know she invented the chickpea?

 

[ChilliBean]

When she first came into the public eye I liked what she stood for and thought cooking on a bootstrap was a great concept. But as I got to know her via twitter she became harder and harder to like - fame and success definitely made it worse. The alcoholism that clearly wasn’t, the trans coming out which I tried to be supportive of but definitely felt like an excuse for victim hood and picking fights on Twitter at times - someone said she’s dropped that now, really ? I had to stop following her but the adhd as her latest thing doesn’t surprise me. I know people in my own life like this, there’s always ‘something’ going on with them. It sounds serious and concerning when you first know them but over time you relaise there is a new thing every month and it’s about attention.

Suing Katie Hopkins successfully was a triumph, she’ll always have that.

It doesn’t surprise me that she’s timid in real life because she’s clearly so insecure, always grasping for some kind of identity and to illicit sympathy.
She did this ghastly video with Georgia toffolo around the 2017 election, for a YouTube series where they brought people with opposing political views together for a meal. I sway much closer to jacks position and am fundamentally very opposed to some of toffs views ... but damn do I know who came out the more likeable, and more open minded to boot.

All jokes aside that hair is dreadful

 

[GoLando]

If I was her I wouldn't be so smug about a TV show. All her own tweets that have been saved here should be a constant worry now she's gnawing her way up the celebrity pole.

Remember a few weeks ago someone suggested to film herself to show what she was doing and she bit back like a rottweiler saying she didn't have time to do all that cute shit?

Then she goes and films her gluing her photos.

If any of us could make £10+ proffit from a selling a 6"x4" photo you bet we'd be ecstatic doing it every night. It's hardly a selfless task you twat.

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Is she flogging these for a tenner each? Just how many are stacked up there? £000s worth??

 

[Catwinky]

If you're working 90 hours a week and not making ends meet, you probably need to re-evaluate your life choices.

Also, her Mrs will make around 80 grand. I wouldn't want to have to live off my partner, but I'd rather that than ask vulnerable people on Twitter for money.

She just thrives off attention.

The one that amused me most was when she made a big announcement she used to be a sex worker (like it was some big deal) and wrote that all the papers can write what they want now i've outed myself...

Not one newspaper even covered it.

Only time it did was when she talked about it in a interview and spun a Dickensian yarn about bring so destitute she had to sell herself to feed her child.

 

[FrannyGallops]

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?

No, she’s fucking exhausting. She says she wants to be referred to as ‘in transition’ but she’s not transitioning into a male. So what, she’s transitioning into a non-binary person? And how is she doing that? By dressing as a stereotypical woman one day and wearing stereotypically male clothing the next? It’s all very ‘look at me! Look at me!’

 

[pink321]

What is she trying to prove? The amount she bangs on about how long she works is so odd, and unbelievable.

No-one's holding her to ransom or forcing her to do 'blogging' and yet she still complains despite the advantages and leg-up she's had. Why doesn't she actually go out and get a proper job like the rest of us??

With an unbelievably massive ego, she's a total fame-whore type who cant't take the digs she dishes out and loves to play the victim for attention.