Jack Monroe #179 Emotionally charged and ends with the threat of a lawyer

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Mmm dark muddy granola and bark chips with a print-out of a small cat on it. I love the unique taste of printer ink in my breakfast, it adds a certain je ne sais quoi. Also I hate that deliberately ingesting charcoal has become a thing. Firstly turning any food grey makes it look rank and secondly if you're on any kind of medication it can stop it working.

If someone sent me that enormous screed just to tell me how to make dinner I would softly, gently invite them to get to absolute duck. Condescending little weasel.
 
I zoned out halfway through reading that recipe ...all that palaver over a peach curry,you are having a laugh ...I'd have slung that straight in the bin and been on to Uber eats and done the 'hey babe I'd thought I'd surprise you for dinner tonight ' I've gotten away with that soooo many times tbh 🤫.

Mind you Mr Spams favourite dinner is Steak and Chips/Burger and Chips/Popeye's Fried Chicken ( when he's home 🇨🇦lol ) .
 
I'm reading that recipe and there are so many examples of Jack talking down to Louisa, such as her telling L which gas ring is the largest...wouldn't she be able to see that with her own eyes? Also lol'ing to myself about Jack describing where to find each of the herbs and spices. She describes it like she's Smaug from The Hobbit with the kitchen being her lair and the herbs, spices and utensils being her treasure. Hell hath no fury like a Jack scorned!
 
SpamNugget said:
I zoned out halfway through reading that recipe ...all that palaver over a peach curry,you are having a laugh ...I'd have slung that straight in the bin and been on to Uber eats and done the 'hey babe I'd thought I'd surprise you for dinner tonight ' I've gotten away with that soooo many times tbh 🤫.

Mind you Mr Spams favourite dinner is Steak and Chips/Burger and Chips/Popeye's Fried Chicken ( when he's home 🇨🇦lol ) .
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This is what winds me up with Jack. She could easily do cheap versions of regular food, I swear she started out that way. Ten ways to use fish fingers, or left over roast stew for example. A bag of potatoes are so cheap if you go for standard white ones. Fakeaway recipes for those who can't afford the real deals. She's a missed opportunity personified.

I don't understand why she has to use twenty odd ingredients in every dish, tons of oil, nothing fresh, eventually all coloured brown.
 
Orphan_Black said:
This is what winds me up with Jack. She could easily do cheap versions of regular food, I swear she started out that way. Ten ways to use fish fingers, or left over roast stew for example. A bag of potatoes are so cheap if you go for standard white ones. Fakeaway recipes for those who can't afford the real deals. She's a missed opportunity personified.

I don't understand why she has to use twenty odd ingredients in every dish, tons of oil, nothing fresh, eventually all coloured brown.
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The funny thing was I was going through my kindle getting rid of the eleventy million books I've got on there when lo and behold i came across a copy of A Girl Named Jack which I must have bought for 99p whenever but having a quick look it's a different world to the slop she brings out now ,easily written recipes that don't cost the earth ,pretty easy to knock together and not 100 %braaahn and even then more than one nod to 'Mom ' she had that springboard to what could have been a very interesting cooking life but it seems that as the years have gone on she really doesn't know where to turn ,a one hit wonder from 2014 that's increasingly irrelevant in 2021.
 
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