Jack Monroe #147 We honestly didn’t expect the backlash

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hollowhusk said:
Did she really make those? That kind of flaky pastry is really difficult to make. You can buy suspiciously similar looking cinammon rolls in a can, you just pop the can open and shape and bake them. They only have a tiny drizzle of icing but it would be easy to make more.
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I am a cinnamon bun truther. I believe they are out of a can. I might buy some later and bake them for comparison purposes.

Eurgh said:
@Scarletfever ‘She has time to draw Nigella’s garden’

I don’t know why but this has killed me!
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Now I am imagining Jack writing her memoirs and calling it "Drawing Nigella's Garden"
 
Toffee finger said:
Cinnamon buns are my favourite. Why does she have to ruin everything 🥺

Hilarious that she can’t see her ginger cat in the snow. I mean we’ve had a fair covering here in Southend but not so much that her cat would disappear! Idiot.
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Probably done what most self respecting cats have done - stood at the open back door, looked slightly horrified and fucked off back into the living room for a kip.
 
How the flump is she "running a household", when the place is a tip, she can't pay her rent on time and has mountains of unopened bills lying around?

It's like she's trying to create an image of 1950s housewifery perfection.
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I do think Jack genuinely thinks she’s super very busy because she has some constraints on her time. I remember feeling like that when I was young, first moved out on my own and was working full time, suddenly there were all these chores and general life stuff I needed to do in my spare time. I realised fairly quickly that this was just adult life and I still had it a lot easier than most people. Jack just doesn’t see this, I don’t think she’s capable of putting herself in other people’s shoes. I don’t think she even really has empathy, if she did she’d actually be doing some kind of grass roots level charity work which helped people in poverty, rather ranging, tweeting and creating slop helps no one. She’s purely self centred and reactive, her ego is stuck at toddler level.
 
waffle maker said:

Jack Monroe #14 Tweet, delete, check Tattle, repeat? Yes, absolutely x

The obit mentioned is this one. I agree the wealth (or not) of a grandparent doesn’t make an individual immune to poverty. So I wonder why it was deleted? https://web.archive.org/web/20160219181351/http://cookingonabootstrap.com/2012/11/22/for-john-hadjicostas-in-memoriam/ Ooh, interesting...
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Just went back to read the old timelines and found the deleted grenfel article. Never seen this before. The people in the photo dressed as fire fighters are clearly a load of call centre people dressed up- they are all laughing. Jack is lying by omission here, again. Great work past Tattlers before I was here!
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I just read her article on Grenfell. She infuriates me so much and I can’t believe the audacity she has of including this photo. With the greatest of respect, this is a group of women having a laugh on a training day. They’re not firefighters, who have gone through tough training and passed a impossible fitness test. They would get out of breath going up the stairs, let alone running up a high rise, breaking protocol trying to save as many people as possible. So there was no need to include it. But of course she has to make everything about herself. Why can no one else see this
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Five hundred dogs said:
I do think Jack genuinely thinks she’s super very busy because she has some constraints on her time. I remember feeling like that when I was young, first moved out on my own and was working full time, suddenly there were all these chores and general life stuff I needed to do in my spare time. I realised fairly quickly that this was just adult life and I still had it a lot easier than most people.
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Yes! And the way she makes such a big deal about every single tiny chore as proof she's working so hard is actually evidence of her *lack* of busyness. She's like the inverse of that saying 'if you want something done, ask a busy person' - which is to say, if even the smallest task is such a big deal to her, it implies she's not actually busy at all.

colouredlines said:
I've been meaning to do a better one now that I've been through her old blog and know the price of her rent etc but I've been BUSY. Will probably revisit it next week, after our election is done.
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It's really useful, I may copy and paste it so that I always know where to find it from now on #forensic
 
Pocahontas said:
In perfect antithesis to her dry AF toast of the Gobi Desert, her buns are wet and greasy. Of course she’s eaten lots already like a greedy goblin.

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Yeah, I’ll pass thanks Jack.
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bleeping hell they look truly awful. Our middle child isn’t quite a teen, and loves baking cinnamon buns. I read her out the description and she said ‘prunes? Why ruin buns with prunes? I thought you only needed to eat them if you can’t poo? Also, why is there pale gravy on top?’ 😂

Hmm. Pale gravy. Has she been squeezing horses again?
 
Khe91 said:
I just read her article on Grenfell. She infuriates me so much and I can’t believe the audacity she has of including this photo. With the greatest of respect, this is a group of women having a laugh on a training day. They’re not firefighters, who have gone through tough training and passed a impossible fitness test. They would get out of breath going up the stairs, let alone running up a high rise, breaking protocol trying to save as many people as possible. So there was no need to include it. But of course she has to make everything about herself. Why can no one else see thisView attachment 425078 q
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I've spoken about my brother in law before, a fireman who risks his life every day, and has developed cPTSD from what he's seen in his work, and it's disrespectful. This actually makes me really upset. And with her Dad as an actual fireman, she should know better.
 
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