Jack Monroe #150 Haven’t you got peas to discuss?

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Mess room though! I don’t know, because I’ve never been a call handler for the fire service, but surely the call centre folk don’t share the same mess room kitchen facilities as the actual fire fighters? Is it even in the same building? Can someone, more military round the edges, advise?
The hospital my mum worked in 30+ years ago used to call the dining room for senior doctors the consultants' mess. It was wood panelled, full of smoke and women weren't allowed in. Thankfully it's now been turned into flats and the NHS becomes a less hierarchical place year on year.
 
I was googling Del Monte and Jack Monroe and came up with a tweet replying to Jack from 2018 " Don't forget to get the message out that the main difference between Del Monte and any supermarket brand is the price". Tweet 'liked' by Jack :mad:

Also " I think my next foodbank donation will be tins of peaches. Not Del Monte , too expensive. Shop own brand. Peach and chickpea curry will take over the world". Also liked by Jack 😆.

ETA -and I have the screenshots so don't sue me.
 
Ok, this one has made me the angriest of all her "salt is salt is salt" and "herbs are herbs are herbs".

NOT OILS ARE THE SAME.

You absolutely cannot use olive oil for pancakes. Olive oil has a lower smoking point, and you need a very hot pan for pancakes. The olive oil will fill your kitchen with smoke before you put your batter in. It also has a bit of a taste, that you can absolutely taste in the finished pancakes (from a woman who flipped when her husband used the fancy olive oil for pancakes that one time he tried to make them).

Actually, this is a bit of a myth. Light olive oil is fine for frying, although you're right that it will flavour whatever you're cooking. It is commonly used for both shallow- and deep-frying in southern Europe.

Extra virgin olive oil is a different kettle of fish altogether, but light olive oil is fine in terms of smoke point (flavour is another question, though!).

There's a chart about halfway down the page here (not the picture at the top, which is incomplete): https://www.thespruceeats.com/smoking-points-of-fats-and-oils-1328753
 
Back to the drawer full of bank cards (I know, I should let it go). No wonder her house is full of rubbish if she keeps things that are no longer valid and are of no use. Just chuck them away.

From the SEB podcast, she goes through her mail one every 6 months, yet on Twitter she says she has a pile of mail that has built up over 10 years. Talk about contradictory stories. Why has she carried unopened mail from place to place? The answer is simple, she hasn't. There could be a cheque in amongst that pile, but she knows there isn't because she has already opened it. It really is a load of nonsense, though why I am in the least bit surprised I don't know.
Oh god. I found a letter the other day reminding people about parent teacher night dated 1996 😳 This is what SB will face in 25years time, poor kid.
 
She must have been sat on her hands not responding to the heroic vegans who are not willing to let this go. I’m surprised that she didn’t let rip more if I’m honest.

One of the main problems with Jack is that virtually everything that she puts out there is either total bollocks or embellished so much that barely any truth remains such is her need for attention. Another of her main problems is her tit memory which is a problem for a compulsive liar.

I’m looking forward to the glittery scalp photo after she has singed a bit of her thick luxuriant thinning hair with a lighter 🙄
 
@heretoreaditall2019 Sorry, did my crap data protection make your eye twitch?! 🤣 I’ll stop trying to make people purchase a password book, I promise. I sound like Jackie but I’m not sure I would remember a password for an app. However, unlike her, I will take advice from a someone more knowledgeable than me and get an app. I could shred the book and put it in a pesto bag salad, add a bit of crunch.

Treat yourself to a luscious bubble bath with it babe, the pulp is just like oat it’ll moisturise and replenish x

Glad you took my horror well, I just envisaged you having your life savings raided and couldn’t not say something! xx
 
This guy absolutely loves food, and his pictures are always incredible. Plus step by step videos. Jack had got such a cheek thinking she’s brilliant at what she does, compared to this guy who doesn’t rant and rave on Twitter all day.
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Caught up!

Her soups all look like what I just emptied from our food waste bin. Even the broth is uncannily like the liquid at the bottom. (this lazy ninny should've emptied it yesterday to avoid said liquid).

Jack! Photos of your scalp pls! You're not normally shy in coming forward with the oversharing.
The sight of the overcooked carrot and celery in the soup makes me think of a sweaty old bin bag!
 
How do you kneel down to light the oven, but your head is over the top of the hob. I just can't work out the physicality of it. If your head is over the hob, how can you see the oven controls, or be kneeling down? Also if her head was near enough to the flame to catch fire, it would be almost touching the hob top. I am just trying to imagine how contorted her body was such that her hair caught fire while turning on an oven.

Another catastrophe befalls her. She is the most unluckiest person I have ever heard of, so many accidents and incidents.

Also she now is "not exactly short of the thatched roof", when only a while back it was falling out in clumps leaving bald patches. (@colouredlines got there first with that one :))
It is the Mediterranean arse conundrum all over again. How did she get simultaneously stuck under a train but still able to hoist herself out without being turned into Flat Stanley?
To paraphrase Jack's tory hero Churchill, she is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a chunky Mediterranean arse!

Apologies if I'm late and this has been done already but I finally triangulated something (because I have the mustard yellow one.... The shaaaaaame)

£8.50 each for several keyrings seems... Excessive though.

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Just a wee heads up but a lot of fake fur from High street retailers has been found to actually be real fur, usually from rabbits, cats and dogs. Especially if made in China where it is cheaper to rear an animal in a cage than make synthetic fur. Hats with furry poms poms, gloves with fur cuffs and coats with fur lined hoods are frequent culprits. Most samples have to be lab tested as it is very difficult sometimes to tell the difference and people don't expect real fur products to be cheap. If in doubt avoid all fur products even if they are labelled as synthetic. Some labels claim fake fur yet lab tests show otherwise, so even the retailer can be lying or unknowingly sell the real thing because the supplier has lied. Fur farming is horrifically cruel. I do not reccomend googling as it will haunt you, just know that if you love animals, it is not something you want to contribute to.
 
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I wouldn't put it passed her to purposely set fire to her hair to make a point. Though if anyone has seen hair burn, it goes up like tinder and is nothing to laugh about.

This will undoubtedly🔺 me to anyone who knows me but as a teenager old enough to know better I once set my hair on fire with a candle. It was entirely my own stupidity, but it was terrifying. My hair was in a long side ponytail and I lost a big chunk of hair (Part was still on my head post fire and so singed we had to cut round it) but it still didn’t make my scalp red and flaky, I had a small burn on my neck where I’d hit my hand on my hair to put it out.

I don’t believe if it had happened to Jack, with her short hair so far closer to her actual head and eyes, she and SB would be over it and laughing, other than nervous laughter, within a few mins.

If she did it deliberately, wow.
 
Speaking from experience a long time ago I was literally starving. A long story but I ended up in hospital with malnutrition. No one noticed. No one. I was an abused wife married to a psychopath who thought it was an interesting experiment to see how much abuse a human being can take before they suicide. If I told he would kill my dog and then me. Truly he would.
So yes, it happens.
Just wanted to say I am so sorry for what you went through, gentle hugs.
 
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