Jack Monroe #162 She slightly undercooked her pasta and lost her slot

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Lumpyspaceprincess said:
I’m staying if we can count random things - teeth, chairs, tins...

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Being harassed online = googling my name and look up negative comments.

Do you think Tom Cruise says, I’m not making another Mission Impossible movie because there are threads online about me supposedly sticking fish up my bum. Err no (also I don’t think Scientologists are allowed on the internet so Jack should join).
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There are what now?! 😳 why am I going to google this?

slow cooker tea...vom.
 
Veronicaaa said:
On websites she can be the big I Am, she can go to these places where she feels she has fans hanging on her every word, and she can be as vile to the 'little people' as she wants to be - she seems to think there's no consequence for her behaviours on social media. But when she's taken out that comfort zone, when she can't direct a pile-on to people who aren't just blowing smoke up her arse, she's totally out of her depth. She can't delete embarrassing media appearances in the same way she can delete embarrassing social media posts, people can see her for exactly what she is, but she still has to blame others for her inadequacies because nothing is ever her fault. It must suit her that she's got us to blame at the moment, so she can continue to avoid the concept of personal responsibility.
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I think the comrade Corbyn message beautifully illustrates your point. She is a typical bully and a complete crawler when it comes to the bigger fish.
 
Guys (that’s just like JM saying “lads” isn’t it? Going to have to not do that anymore) I hate to be a dull dud and I’m not trying to moderate the thread but I’m sure I read it somewhere (not that I can find it now though) that thread title nominations are supposed to be given from about 500 posts onwards, or only from then in should suggestions be considered. JM’s threads always have so much content that something that might be brill on the first page of the thread will be tomorrow’s chipper paper by the time we get to the end.

Some other threads have “early thread suggestion” at post 900-odd. I hope this doesn’t offend anyone, that’s not my intention and I don’t mean to have a go at anyone.

I’m not sure if I’m pleased or not Jack is Back. And if she genuinely think this so-called TM slot was taken away because of the pasta being undercooked then I think she’s worryingly deluded. And she was on TV with old Piers not that long ago so he can’t be that egregious to her if she was happy to have him question her about free school meals
 
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Saint_clemmie said:
The difference between Jack and Nadiya, or any other well known tv chef/cook/foodie is that they’re comfortable with themselves. Jack is a ball of nerves and it’s uncomfortable to watch. She would be forgiven if she didn’t genuinely believe that she’s the dogs bollocks who’s just constantly victimised because (insert interchangeable prejudice here).
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For me, the question is 'why is she uncomfortable with herself'? - and again, in my humble opinion the answer is that she's a charlatan and she knows it, so the biggest challenge for her is having to best make whatever character she's playing convincing, in front of a live audience. That must be bleeping stressful..
 
LennyBriscoe said:
Guys (that’s just like JM saying “lads” isn’t it? Going to have to not do that anymore) I hate to be a dull dud and I’m not trying to moderate the thread but I’m sure I read it somewhere (not that I can find it now though) that thread title nominations are supposed to be given from about 500 posts onwards, or only from then in should suggestions be considered. JM’s threads always have so much content that something that might be brill on the first page of the thread will be today’s chipper paper by the time we get to the end.

Some other threads have “early thread suggestion” at post 900-odd. I hope this doesn’t offend anyone, that’s not my intention and I don’t mean to have a go at anyone.

I’m not sure if I’m pleased or not Jack is Back. And if she genuinely think this so-called TM slot was taken away because of the pasta being undercooked then I think she’s worryingly deluded. And she was on TV with old Piers not that long ago so he can’t be that egregious to her if she was happy to have him question her about free school meals
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Ah Im sorry, I honestly didn’t realise. Apologies - will delete x
 
Sigh. Here we go again, Jack has "no confidence". She had confidence enough to throw an almighty tantrum about JO getting the show that time, and when she got given her own AMAZING opportunity she acted like an inexperienced, unprofessional moron despite being "a literal food expert with 6 books". In her own words, bouncing around the studio like a toddler, irritating everyone. She said it went amazingly well and she learned so much, same with the Hellman's shitshow. We all remember the legendary series of pics that followed that particular disaster. She said it was amazing, that her confidence was through the roof. Now we're back to blaming no telly work on no confidence once again. Something's not adding up, but does it ever!
 
Captainmouse said:
You’re a better man than I am gunga din, brave
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We bought a new instant pot a couple of weeks ago so chucked the old slow cooker but if I still had it I’d genuinely try so we could see how awful it is. I think my husband would be annoyed if I used the new one for it, he hates tea and does most of the cooking so a tea stained instant pot would not be appreciated 😂
 
LennyBriscoe said:
Oh no please don’t apologise or delete! I didn’t want to come across as a dick - and I’m rooting for you to get a thread title - it’s just we’re such a we’ll behaved Cable so we should probs stick to all the rules x
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Not at all, you haven’t and I’m not remotely offended. I genuinely wasn’t aware of the rule, so thank(space)you for letting me know. I have told myself to absolutely get to duck, and am rinsing some miscellaneous tinned stuff as penance 😉😂
 
Toffee finger said:
We bought a new instant pot a couple of weeks ago so chucked the old slow cooker but if I still had it I’d genuinely try so we could see how awful it is. I think my husband would be annoyed if I used the new one for it, he hates tea and does most of the cooking so a tea stained instant pot would not be appreciated 😂
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Instant pot has a slow cooker function. You said you'd do it, Toffee. No excuses!
 
She's not drinking 3.5 litres of tea in under half a day. A woman of her stature with her morning coffee she doesn't drink and all the carafes of grapefruit squash, c'est impossible. Apart from the fact slow cooker tea would taste rank, another thing to consider is that's about 385mg of caffeine which is close to 400mg, considered the safe limit. If she's genuinely taking ADHD medication she must be a permanent Speedy Gonzales. I can't consume any caffeine without getting a reaction, even thinking about 400mg gives me palpitations 😨
 
CabalofBolorneaise said:
I have never understood how, knowing she had a 6 min slot, she hadn't precooked the pasta and just had it sat waiting. I appreciate that in real life serving the cold pasta with her sauce would have been vile but her segment was about the bloody sauce and the viewers wouldn't have known it was cold.

She could honestly have likely got away with the undercooked pasta even if she'd not mentioned it.

It was like she deliberately sabotaged herself.
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Going to brag about my genius idea (it came about when my mother was wittering on about 'pasta cooking jars' on QVC and I realised if that worked, you probably didn't need the overpriced, insulated jar - and it's obviously not the first time anybody has ever thought of it, it was just that it only occurred to me then) -

Boil water (usually in the kettle). Put into pan and make sure it's a big old rolling boil with big bubbles. Add your pasta and stir it round so every surface is touched by water. Bring the water back up to that high boil and then put the lid on, turn the gas off and leave it alone for ten minutes (at the back of a hob, on a countertop on a board, anywhere else within reach) - whilst you get on with preparing the sauce/making sure everything is in place for when the feed switches to you - when that ten minutes/5 mins before going live/5 mins into your piece has elapsed/you have shown the viewers how to prepare the sauce, you take the lid off, breezily declare that all you have to do now is drain your pasta, put it into a colander, tip it back into the pan and mix the two together.

The pasta will be cooked, not raw, not sloppy, just perfectly done, hot (but not so much steam you disappear behind it all), you've freed off your mini induction hob on the worksurface for the sauce, it's ready whenever they move to your feed and, most importantly, you look like you know what you're doing, rather than looking like a terminally incompetent twit in the kitchen. You therefore don't lose cooking slots for Being tit At It, despite the oodles of middleclass white privilege that has got you on there in the first place and you can continue to pay your rent for the next eight months that way.
 
This is the epitome of the life of Riley for me. Unless she was getting up at the arsecrack of dawn...who is this aimed towards? Ithis her ideal demographic? I’m a stay at home Mum and microwave porridge is a godsend! I wish I had the luxury of time and sanity to make it from scratch.

Urgh, sorry for mini rant. Think my funk is easing but might need to watch a sweary episode of Thick of It when small child goes to sleep.

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Ladderedtights said:
This is the epitome of the life of Riley for me. Unless she was getting up at the arsecrack of dawn...who is this aimed towards? Ithis her ideal demographic? I’m a stay at home Mum and microwave porridge is a godsend! I wish I had the luxury of time and sanity to make it from scratch.

Urgh, sorry for mini rant. Think my funk is easing but might need to watch a sweary episode of Thick of It when small child goes to sleep.

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I think these were bowls for her lover?!
 
Harrybosch said:
Instant pot has a slow cooker function. You said you'd do it, Toffee. No excuses!
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instant pot tea is a thing....admittedly this is chai which does sound a whole lot nicer than Jack's tea in a slow cooker
oh and btw instant pot makes amazing rice pudding!
 
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