Jack Monroe (bootstrapcook)

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

My mum and sister lived in extreme poverty when my mum was married to her first husband (DV issues). They had nothing, no heating, hot water or food. After my mum left and met my dad she has always stockpiled food and my sister has done the same, way before all this. It's a response to extreme poverty, neither one of them has run out of anything or needed to buy anything other than fresh food, so why has Jack needed to use substitutes, surely she would naturally be a stockpiler, too. You would never need to substitute sugar for honey if you have 3 bags of sugar, like my mum does, etc...

I've never been keen on Jack and I'm a proper lefty, always thought it was me being cynical but I always felt she was courting attention with the non-binary thing, being vegan, leaving the Labour Party and showing her hands on food pics really irritated me, I thought I was being petty. Glad I found this thread.

 

[Yel]

I'm really curious to see how this BBC show will pan out since Jamie's show has gone from being in his filming kitchen with a crew to his home with his phone and just him and Jools, so how are they producing a show? Is it already recorded? Especially as she is immunocompromised and supposedly terrified to go outside? I'm not going to watch it def not adding to her viewing figures, but I'm very curious how it's going to work...

Poor Jack has to grab her walking stick and haul her bedridden arthritic carcass into a TV studio to work else she can't eat or pay the bills. She's a gig economy worker on the breadline renting a shitty bungalow in Southend and the TV exec partner she lives with only earns 250k. Shame on the BBC for exploiting her vulnerability and only paying the living wage .

 

[OhhBacon]

Baffled as to why she has to use bananas to replace the egg in the ‘birthday cake’ pancakes when she had two eggs for dinner last night.
#wearenotallinthistogether #sheclearlycouldhavemadeacake #whydopeoplebelievehercrap #shecantrememberherownlies

 

[SqualorVictoria]

Influencers do not inhabit the same world as everyone else. Imagine in the real world if you were passed over for a promotion in favour of someone more experienced and more qualified- would you go on Twitter and encourage a bitter pile on of said person? No, you might vent your disappointment to your mates in private and then keep working hard for next time. Deluded, entitled fools

 

[Heyholetsgo]

One thing I like about her is that she makes me realise I'm a better cook than I thought

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Meanwhile people like Gary Usher are actually helping people

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Good grief, she really needs to step off.

By her own admission it takes her 20 hours to prep for just six minutes of a tv segment, so maybe the major tv channel wanted to work with a seasoned tv professional who knows what they are doing?

I can’t imagine commissioning her for anything, it would be grief and drama from the get go. I don’t imagine Jamie Oliver is easy street but he’d be the height of professionalism next to Jack.

And this isn’t “her” speciality for gods sake. There’s Jess Dennison and Claire Thomson, off the top of my head. And I’m not a Jamie Oliver fan but people have grown up with him on tv and learnt to cook with his books for 20 years now, he’s a comforting figure to have on tv at a time like this, any idiot can understand why he’s got this gig. Not everything’s about you Jack ffs.

 

[GrunkaLunka]

Both channels at the same time?? This has to be a joke, surely?

This stuff about Jamie Oliver is really pissing me off. Even if she was the original budget chef (which she's obviously not).... Jamie has been a TV chef for decades, that's his thing. Why should he move aside for her?

 

[Yel]

She's such a dick.

She managed to get her non Barclays bank card swallowed up in a Barclays ATM. Then she thinks as she's a Barclays customer she should be able to get it back right away. But it's against their internal policy as it's owned by another bank. Now goes on a rant. Talk about entitled.

Going on about she's got half an hour to pay someone delivering a skip and her ADHD means she's unable to keep more than one bank card in her wallet. Then saying she could confirm her identity by rolling up her sleeve and the bank clerk doing a google images search to see her tattoos. I'd think she's some troll trying to poke fun at millennials.

 

[Satisfying Click]

She's willing to work alongside him? The utter gonads on her, this isn't the signing of a peace treaty.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I picked some wild garlic today and made pesto from some sunflower seeds. Far cheaper than the rank old salad bag pond water pesto jack is strangely proud of.

I therefore created wild garlic and sunflower seed pesto and anyone else that ever uses wild garlic or sunflower seeds for pesto stole it from me and foraging for that matter

Imagine if a man with a large following went after a woman, called her "that woman" and encouraged hundreds of thousands of people to target her. I'm sure it would be seen as unacceptable, but jack gets away with it.

This whole thing Jack has created between her and Jamie Oliver is horrible. As you say if it was the other way round his career would be over. I simply do not get why anyone is defending her and supporting this appalling bullying she is encouraging. The job was not hers. He didn't take it away from her. She is a self pitying greedy fucker. I can't believe I used to like her.

 

[Mustard]

I'm glad she's kept to it. It felt a poor choice for the Guardian to give her a large platform to declare her sobriety so early into it. Had she properly fallen off the wagon there would have been much more attention on her failure than if she'd quietly entered sober life.

On the whole, she has verbal and written diarrhoea. I’m surprised by some of the stuff she tweets. She must be exhausting to live with.

 

[ChilliBean]

Can’t actually believe she’s charging £18 for a photo of GARLIC

 

[Kikini Bamalam]

That screenshot prompted me to look at his Instagram post. Didn't realise it's a 5 times a week show starting Monday. She's admitted how long it takes for her to do 6 minutes on This Morning, of course they're going to pick the pro who has presented for years. I would prefer a more diverse casting for the job (most telly chefs are white men) but given the turnaround picking the person they can drop in at short notice makes sense.

Like him or loathe him (and I really loathe him) Oliver is popular. Jack is a fucking bandwagon jumping dickhead who would jump on the newest most popular hashtag for a quid or two. I wish she'd fuck off and shut up

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Aaaaaahahah! There’s no need for her to come here and row with us, just drop the receipts for all of the wild claims you make and the thread is dead in the water then init?

 

[Minxxx]

She’s full of shit. There was a long thread in Mumsnet calling her out. I used to be in a makeup group on Facebook, she joined and had the middle class ladies fawning over her. I think everything she does is for attention. Has she decided to be a woman now. I thought she/they didn’t want to use gender specific pronouns?

 

[Snapesnapeseverussnape]

Sits at a desk 20 hours a day AND manages to do 26000 steps (assuming with the help of her walking stick of course)

 

[Thank(space)you]

I'm so shocked by her, I really thought she was genuine

 

[Satisfying Click]

As someone in the business, please can you explain to me why recipe blogs are often so tedious? When I just want a bloody recipe but have to read the author's entire life history, the inspiration behind the recipe and the entirety of War and Peace before getting to the ingredients and method. I've started clicking off now and finding another recipe as soon as I see a sea of words.

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)

 

[Nottonightbabe]

I see that due to the "incredible, and often moving" response from viewers, Jamie is continuing with the 'carry on' episodes, by filming at home with his iPhone. Someone's going to be pissed...