Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Yel]

She does add ingredients that they might not have, doesn't that defeat the whole point?

Jack I've got some spaghetti hoops and bread what can I make?
If you've got some cocoa, flour and sugar you can make a banging chocolate cake using banana in place of egg. Now tell me I'm better than Jamie Oliver?!

 

[SilverSpoonNotIncluded]

That affiliate link is so surprising, not that she’s done one necessarily but that it’s undeclared. I really rate her and her recipes, I’m quite disappointed.

 

[Excuse Me Laydeh!]

She’s vile. She doxxed me publicly on her IG account when I called her out on something a couple of years ago. At the time I stupidly had my real name vaguely linked to my Insta and she managed to pull a news article about me and posted about it with my full name and location.

OMG what an absolute grade A fucking bitch!!! Yeah "Be Kind" my arsehole!

 

[maytoseptember]

I find it so incredibly difficult to believe they've gone as far out as south end to *rent*, particularly if her partner has worked a demanding role at the BBC (west London ffs!) & now ch4? The season ticket for that train alone would mitigate any savings to be had on rentals, the only reason people working in London move that far out is to get on the property ladder! If anyone has her address it's £3 I'll happily spend to get the deeds for the property tbh it's relatively public access on land registry there's just a small fee - because there's absolutely no way that's true.

I think she lives in Leigh on Sea, which isn’t as far out as Southend and gets you into London on the train in about 50 minutes. It’s also really trendy and gentrified loads in recent years and is absolutely full of ex-Londoners.

 

[emm]

She has been given a column in metro.co.uk starting today, she should be pleased but no, first thing she does is have a dig at Jamie Oliver for using capers in his television show, then goes on to use them herself in her 'recipe' (mashed up sardines on toast). She really comes across as spiteful and unpleasant, why is any media outlet giving her airtime?

tbh i am surprised metro are hiring anyone at this point, surely 99%of their readership are commuters ofwhich now there are very few

 

[Catwinky]

And her vendetta becomes clear... she really is a nasty piece of work.

2 months ago she was openly claiming Jamie Oliver gets his recipes from her...so why would he share a room with her let alone co-host?

Oh and she was still skint back then, thought that was only due to coronavirus ....

 

[Heyholetsgo]

She is just unbelievable, really

 

[coconochanel]

She made a shit show of the recipe she did on this morning. My god she looked like a amateur, over filled the dish so when she put on the dried looking mash it went everywhere.

 

[Mustard]

2008 Telegraph article on how Nigella is a fan of canned goods including fruit for puddings.
Delia Smith's cheating at cooking book. Published way before Jack was ever relevant.

Sorry Jack, we know you didn't invent the tin, love

I love old cookbooks and used to collect them, Katherine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter is interesting. I have an old copy of Delia Smith’s Book of Cakes and a book written by vegetarian George Bernard Shaw’s housekeeper.

 

[ChilliBean]

night not talk about it but here I am vaguely talking about it cos I need attention!

100%!! I'm calling it now she will tweet cryptically about it over the next few weeks before doing a big reveal on insta/twitter about it... my money is on an autism diagnosis, any other takers?

 

[Justhereforthedrama]

she looks dirty :-( her fingers look grubby.

 

[Yellowfairy]

She's currently live in bbc news talking about her offering cooking advice. As soon as she came on i turned over. Just from seeing a short bit of her talking live on telly its clear to see that she's not a natural and wouldn't do well with her own show.

 

[ChilliBean]

Anyone else waiting for one of her followers to get food poisoning from her telling them it’s ok to eat food that is wildly out of date?!

 

[FrannyGallops]

So much to unpack here. Mainly... who gives a fuck what mumsnet says about your tits? She’s a bloodhound for drama.

I remember that MN thread. IIRC, the issue wasn’t about her tits, but because it was an award specifically for women and Jack had decided at that at that point that she was a man. Then in her acceptance speech she made some comment about rocking a beard and being pumped full of testerone for next years awards. I think the commenters on MN were rightly pointing out that she couldn’t have it both ways. ‘They’ are either a man so shouldn’t be accepting an award for women, or they’re woman.
Edited to say she was ‘identifying as male’, rather.

 

[poppycat]

This attention-seeker and egomaniac is now jumping on practically any news article to stay relevant, and has commented about her supposed DD boobs being unaffected by not wearing a bra. This is in response to a Sun article on Twitter which says not wearing one makes them saggy, which according to jack, doesn't apply to to her magic faux-poor mammaries. No-one wants to know, you sad mare.

What happened to the binding? She was always going on about this during her 'trans' or 'non-binary' phase. Not fashionable now that she's looking for television work maybe?

 

[Roxanna]

She is a scam artist and that’s it.

 

[Yel]

I suppose this is part of what I don't understand about her current stance. The supermarkets are more or less back to normal, why are we pretending like they're not? I know lots of people are in for some hard yards financially but that's different to lockdown. Noone needs to be eating spaghetti hoops and coconut milk because that's all there is. And if you can't get out (I'm one of those people), there's about 6 million good Samaritans on every facebook group, every corner shop, pub and cafe seem to be set up delivery now (It may be different if you're super rural, but she's only Essex, isn't she?)

She could have got everything to make her kid a cake without any faff?

Agreed and food banks are really struggling at the moment. Lots of the people donating to boost jack's 6-figure income might be the same people that are donating less. I imagine most of them think Jack is desolate with all her begging and their money will go towards her £160 bottles of perfume.

 

[emm]

What's she going to complain about now she has a show? And how will she fit the show into her 4 spare hours of the day?

I guess I have answered my own question - now she can use the time she was bitterly criticising Jamie to complain about how she now works 34 hours a day and is so tired but so hardworking and selfless and doing this for her fans

She works a minimum of 96 hours a day, hasn’t got the time to do a YouTube channel and yet has still found time to colour code her bookcase
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She may as well just end that with "look how clever I am"

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Autism or adhd or both. They have 30% co-morbidity.

 

[Droosie123]

What work is she doing at a desk for 20 hours exactly!?

Exactly.

I lost patience the moment she went mainstream tbh. The moment she did this she was no longer struggling no matter what she said and protested,

She is now beyond disgusting.

Twenty hours at a desk my arse.