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

[Harrybosch]

Spoiler: Vegan stuff

We've had a few vegan chats here recently, thanks to our 90%vegan maverick. I know some of you have done Veganuary or are veg curious. There's a really excellent film available online called "the ghosts in our machine" . It's thoughtful and beautifully shot. It follows a photographer who has made it her life's mission to document how we treat animals, the ghosts in our machine. It's harrowing, but not preachy or aggressive. I watched it years ago and still think of it regularly. Dear hearts, that's all I wanted to say.

 

[Clovis]

I remember once trying Vicks rub as lip balm when I'd run out. That replacement didn't turn out so well.

 

[Veronicaaa]

Just thought this was interesting in light of her partnership with Del Monte: "I couldn't endorse anything that wasn't the best possible value."

Austerity’s poster girl Jack Monroe, and a storm over her very

Jack Monroe began blogging on cooking meals for pennies when her weekly food budget was under a tenner. Here she tells Richard Godwin about turning her life around with dirt-cheap chilli

www.standard.co.uk

 

[waffle maker]

Fire service - we know daddy was quite high up, I’m sure I also read that he was a union rep. If you had a problem with getting flexihours, surely you would get him involved? I think there is something else in the background and that’s why she applied for different roles and didn’t cause a huge fuss + Employment Tribunal. Possibly in trouble for working in a bar when should have been at the call centre, or on a performance plan, or had grievances against her. Just an opinion.

I’ve probably said before that my sister works for the ambulance service, she answered the phones for years and also drove ambulances at one stage and is now a manager.The contract she signed agrees to work shifts, I’m sure fire service would be similar.

Jack took maternity leave about the same time as me, public sector maternity leave is great, you get a few weeks full pay, a few weeks half pay and I think SMP up to 9 months. The deal is that you have to go back to work, and you can only negotiate if it works for the employer, for instance they do often let teachers go part time, but rarely let you keep middle management jobs. I reckon Jack’s request would ha e put pressure on the other team members to work all the nights. I think the key is reasonable adjustments or something like

I think she went back, got really tired with child care and shifts, went off with stress and then resigned thinking they would cave.

 

[LittleMissMuffet]

I remember once trying Vicks rub as lip balm when I'd run out. That replacement didn't turn out so well.

My midwife told me that she had a patient who’s pregnancy craving was Gaviscon on a sponge.

 

[Misbehaving]

Q

This sounds like something Muhammad Ali would say!

“I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I used to EAT Vicks Vaporub”

What an image!!
Its quite in keeping though with jack i can benchpress my own body weight monroe!
See how hard i am grr
Float like a butterfly
sting like a bee grr
I eat vicks (its not vicks its mine!) vapourub
i bathe in eucalyptus
any salt will do..
As will tar soap
reminds me of tarred and feathered?
DIY torture on the cheap?
Its not a bath its a punishment?
Pity the fool
(sorry thats mr t !)
Or as i see it...
the incredible hulk
jack
in her body building phase...
after eating her greens
just don't make her mad....Whatever you do...

Or she'll send in the flying monkeys...
To deal with the baying gaslight mob
gets out the worlds smallest violin...

 

[HotesTilaire]

I used to do payroll so I’ve done a lot of similar situations.
The flexi request has to work for the employer, you can’t go from being full time shift work to working 2 hrs per day only between the hours of 10am -2pm because the shift has to be covered. You could probably easily drop a shift or two.

In any case I still think there is more to it, she came back and went off with stress. She has said she wrote her resignation from a hospital bed? I still don’t see why, if you were having these problems at work that you wouldn’t involve your dad the union rep. Unless there was a good reason, like something you didn’t want him to find out.

 

[sioc]

Just thought this was interesting in light of her partnership with Del Monte: "I couldn't endorse anything that wasn't the best possible value."

Austerity’s poster girl Jack Monroe, and a storm over her very

Jack Monroe began blogging on cooking meals for pennies when her weekly food budget was under a tenner. Here she tells Richard Godwin about turning her life around with dirt-cheap chilli

www.standard.co.uk

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Just for funs sake I looked up Save with Jamie on his website, 24 recipes, 3 that I could see used rice and none that specified a brand. I mean the book could be different in all fairness but it strikes me as very odd to actually suggest a brand of rice in a cookbook rather than just saying white or brown? Maybe he used uncle Ben's as a costing example somewhere?

(Also a minor aside, people aren't such morons that they're going to rush out and buy a particular brand of rice if they already have other rice at home, they can make that gargantuan logical leap themselves)

 

[blurstoftimes]

My midwife told me that she had a patient who’s pregnancy craving was Gaviscon on a sponge.

Mine was the smell of Mr Muscle! My ex had to ban me from cleaning the kitchen after a while because I was just trying to chase that high ( from smelling the cleaning product that is...not actually high )

OF COURSE Jack claims to like plain vegetable oil over any other type of oil. That's just Jack in a bleeping nutshell.

 

[Boogs]

Just for funs sake I looked up Save with Jamie on his website, 24 recipes, 3 that I could see used rice and none that specified a brand. I mean the book could be different in all fairness but it strikes me as very odd to actually suggest a brand of rice in a cookbook rather than just saying white or brown? Maybe he used uncle Ben's as a costing example somewhere?

(Also a minor aside, people aren't such morons that they're going to rush out and buy a particular brand of rice if they already have other rice at home, they can make that gargantuan logical leap themselves)

I just remembered that I have the book. There is no mention of any brand on any of the rice recipes, just the kind - risotto, brown etc. Differentiating between different kinds of rice, the bastard

 

[Harrybosch]

(Also a minor aside, people aren't such morons that they're going to rush out and buy a particular brand of rice if they already have other rice at home, they can make that gargantuan logical leap themselves)

Ermmmm, are you aware of the squiggles?

 

[Dogmuck]

Talking of crazy tit we ate when younger. Talc and chalk. I knew it wasn’t right so used to lock myself in the bathroom and eat it Years later someone suggested I probably had a calcium deficiency I just loved the taste and texture on my teeth

 

[PunkyMonkey]

That 2018 thing is repetitive and utterly hyperbolic, but what really stands out to me is this bit.

Throwing books at people's heads, being half cut in interviews to the point that damage needs to be repaired and prioritising herself over someone's newborn.
What an exhausting liability.

 

[Dogmuck]

That 2018 thing is repetitive and utterly hyperbolic, but what really stands out to me is this bit.

Throwing books at people's heads, being half cut in interviews to the point that damage needs to be repaired and prioritising herself over someone's newborn.
What an exhausting liability.

Screams “selfish bleep” to me.

 

[TheDragonWithAFlagon]

That 2018 thing is repetitive and utterly hyperbolic, but what really stands out to me is this bit.

Throwing books at people's heads, being half cut in interviews to the point that damage needs to be repaired and prioritising herself over someone's newborn.
What an exhausting liability.

No wonder people describe her as 'difficult to work with'.

duck all to do with Tattle. She's damned herself right there. Especially admitting (yet again) that she's assaulted somebody.

 

[blurstoftimes]

That 2018 thing is repetitive and utterly hyperbolic, but what really stands out to me is this bit.

Throwing books at people's heads, being half cut in interviews to the point that damage needs to be repaired and prioritising herself over someone's newborn.
What an exhausting liability.

bleeping hell Jack you're a mildly famous food blogger / twitter mouthpiece, not Mariah Carey!

 

[Boogs]

That 2018 thing is repetitive and utterly hyperbolic, but what really stands out to me is this bit.

Throwing books at people's heads, being half cut in interviews to the point that damage needs to be repaired and prioritising herself over someone's newborn.
What an exhausting liability.

My god if she can write that and not feel ashamed it shows that there is zero chance of any self awareness or humility popping up at any time in the near future. Which I guess we all knew anyway

 

[Veronicaaa]

bleeping hell Jack you're a mildly famous food blogger / twitter mouthpiece, not Mariah Carey!

(sorry, couldn't resist).

 

[ThunderClapForCapers]

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?

Firefighter Jack learnt so much in there such as always keeping two slices of bread on the side of her plate to stuff her dinner into if a call came in.

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!

@traumatised sideboard made sense of it all when I was lurking. The evolution from the "could bench press my own body weight. I ran half marathons. Went to the gym at 6am before work, and after dinner for good measure. Did the bleep test on my lunch break for fun. Kept a dumbbell under my desk to casually work out with in quiet periods and did the ironing sitting on a massive yoga ball." period to the "liability with my walking stick and inability to pick myself off the floor if I crouch down in the supermarket to get the cheap tomatoes from the bottom shelf." period and then miraculously back to the 'pescatarian bodybuilding and amazing Flying Lotus position entrances into various Facebook Live videos' period is confusing.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Which 2018 thing was that? She needs more than a sponsorbot drawing