Jack Monroe #225 The squit has hit the pan

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Ooh the light is coming back in her eyes…again…
 

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Well done to Jack for finally reading here properly and following Dr Josh’s advice and admitting that FOOD isn’t medicine. However, don’t follow up that statement with telling Twitter to use “preferably whole grain” when referring to rice.

Who are you trying to be, Gwyneth?

Finally, we all know that there are a multitude of superior books to Jack’s out at the moment (Ruby’s, Ella’s) that deal with the issues of cooking when life is not that great. She is obviously aware of this and is trying to peddle her own to the nth degree. Sorry Jack, that ship has sailed. Ruby’s is epic and Ella’s writing is something you can only aspire to.

I will wait to pass judgement on the TikTok.

While I eat my (Tesco) granola.
 
Lumpyspaceprincess said:
Ooh the light is coming back in her eyes…again…
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If she's going to produce yummy food then I am all for it. I await with baited breath.

Also I really struggle with the bully aspect. Everything apart from the odd roast. Is my opinion on her cooking style and attitude. It's not picking on her its me giving my opinion on what I expect from a person in the public eye supposedly helping someone in my position. I don't rate her. That's not bullying!
 
Hahhhaaaaaa "fiercesome". Like a honey badger, cornered!!

Jack Monroe #224 Knobwatch

It's the Dunning Kruger effect and she refuses to learn otherwise. Jack of all trades, innit. It’s the complete opposite of imposter syndrome. She thinks she’s brilliant at everything. Despite all the evidence being very much to the contrary. Baffling. How does a person end up like that?
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Edited to add screenie. I'm just up to Greenbelt yuk and therefore this is the best combo of Jack related target advertising I've ever received
 

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I am wondering if no one vets Jacks recipes. I tried to think of a similar situation with another cook. Would the organiser of an event take a look at a recipe Jamie Oliver or Nigella had created and come back with - 'sorry Nigella, this won't do'. Who in the organisation of this event would have that function? Not Netflix or Aardman, not their area. Someone at the Bristol Sports Foundation? Perhaps the teachers/parents of the children will have something safety related to say when they find out what the recipe is. At the least they will have to have one adult per child to supervise the boiling water - won't they? Perhaps the kids will get to go off and play basketball while it steams for two hours.
 
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Flash123 said:
So that’s really interesting about the brown rice thing. I’m not a big rice eater but the way the diet industry works I was thinking having white rice was almost as bad as injecting pure sugar (exaggerating obviously for any squiggles reading)
It’s actually quite Damaging as it makes you doubt things you see in front of you like my Asian friends who manage to eat white rice in various meals without suddenly coming down with diabetes.


Chicken cup a soup reminds me of the vending machine at the local bus station when waiting from the bus home from school in the freezing winter and it being 20p for a ‘chicken’ soup and I can’t criticise it for that reason. When I had covid back at the start of the year I couldn’t do much but had some cup a soups when feeling rough and it was just nice to have something warming when I couldn’t really stomach anything proper.
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I feel like cup-a-soup is a very different beast than soup (as is frozen pizza to pizza) *and* is sometimes just what you feel like
 
heretoreaditall2019 said:
Omfg she is just SUCH a cheeky cow! No a missed book tour isn’t why you only shifted 3.1k units beloved ! Does she not realise the demographic of squig attending such events are the ones that would have pre ordered and bought it regardless?

Also abhorrent because she’s making out as if she can unlock some new paradise where everything is cheap, healthy, and filling. No. tit costs what it costs, you may be able to shave a few single % points off it by shopping around (and even that assumes there’s no cost of ur time or transport, and that you have the time for work and child care responsibilities - two things she doesn’t know !!) but there’s no way to do a massive spread as we know it on the cheap, unless you’re swapping out caviar and pâtés for hummus and veggies? Like poor people know how to save £, Jack’s tips are just in the gutter - eating malformed pig corpse cuttings to save 30p a pack. Whoopdedoo!
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That's just it, people on a tight budget generally already know where they can get what they want, for the best price. Aldi, Lidl, Iceland perhaps for frozen puds and ready prepped centrepiece roasts. Taking advantage of the supermarket loss leaders on veggies they do every year. They know how to put together a perfectly fine, but no frills dinner, and if their cooking skills aren't brilliant, there's plenty of budget ready prepared options around. Jacks tips and recipes are time consuming, unpleasant to eat, and essentially a lot of work and faff for no reward.
 
Lionel Richtea said:
Remember when she just used to mix corned beef with cold tea and we just laughed and made jokes about horse jizz and sideboards?

A golden age. Great (grate?) times.

This rice/soup/fish thing is just sinister.
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I'm going to open a book that bad teeth due to lack of nutrients and alcohol will be her next Big Thing that Held Her Back from Success.

There will be "ouchies" again, the terror from a previous terrible dentist (bonus points if dentist leered at her), gnashing of teeth (*haha*) at the cost of dental treatment, a near relapse on pain killers after EXTENSIVE root canal, and a "reveal" that explains to "all of you who have been curious and worried about me eating soft foods - I wasn't ready to talk about it". Triple word score for: "the bullies made my teeth rot, it wasn't the spoonfuls of sugar+booze!"

Please DM me your details I mean bets and I'll put you in touch (with my bank account)
 
Nottonightbabe said:
That's just it, people on a tight budget generally already know where they can get what they want, for the best price. Aldi, Lidl, Iceland perhaps for frozen puds and ready prepped centrepiece roasts. Taking advantage of the supermarket loss leaders on veggies they do every year. They know how to put together a perfectly fine, but no frills dinner, and if their cooking skills aren't brilliant, there's plenty of budget ready prepared options around. Jacks tips and recipes are time consuming, unpleasant to eat, and essentially a lot of work and faff for no reward.
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I noticed that someone did suggest trying Iceland for festive stuff on her previous thread where she was looking for tips for her 'friend'. It's amazing to me that instead of suggesting that, she goes on about her nonsense as usual. Having said that, she'd doubtless disregard it because she would find a fault - eg 'not everyone has a freezer, how thoughtless of you'. But this is what she does, creates problems in her own mind that only she can solve, instead of highlighting normal, everyday solutions which would help the majority.
 
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