Jack Monroe #290 The Violet Elizabeth Bott of food, she will cook and cook until you are sick.

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StatusWoe said:
Another thing, do any canal dwellers remember the time Waitrose produced a list of 'student storecupboard essentials'. It was brilliant.

The list included Rose Harissa paste and that's all you really need to know.

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Does anyone else remember when Jack got excited over yellow-sticker squid ink from Waitrose?

She really is the voice of the poors.
 
Very late entry to the origin story but I'M BUSY!

Had heard of Jack Monroe vaguely and THOUGHT she was doing an okay thing,
you know budget cooking etc
Then I had the misfortune to see her most rancid Christmas dinner which I thought
was a SPOOF, lads, I mean, the veggie version was the veggie PEELINGS nah get outta here
never mind everything cooked in lard and the eyelid sausages.

I Expressed mild shock at what Jack Monroe thought the poors should be eating on Christmas day
and got my arse kicked.

Thought to myself, nah this can't be right, I have been a genuine single parent to 3, have worked
in Supported housing for years and so have been both sides of the benefit system. Am currently
on benefits due to ill health and regularly use foodbanks/social supermarkets.

So, I found tattle and the scales were lifted from my eyes! Hallelujah

Love the cabal of mithering ninnies, wittiest place to be.

I'm still here, waiting for the day that Jack Monroe gets her comeuppance for being
such a vile, nasty, lying faker with no shame.

Oh and a very personal rant to Jack Monroe.
Keep YNWA out of your mouth, thank space you
 
Baxtyboo said:
We had a poverty once. After my son was born, and I couldn't return to work because of the unsociable hours.
We got no help what-so-ever from the government and also focused on paying off our debts. We never starved, we never had to unscrew lightbulbs. I also never had to sit for hours and hours slaving over lists and charts. I just went to Lidl, got what was on their special offers and then worked around that. Why does he make it so difficult?!
My MIL really struggled bringing my husband and his brother up, and she never went to the extremes Jack does.
I'm not saying people don't have it really bad, and can fall on really difficult times but I just feel like she's parodied poverty and it actually makes a real mockery of people who do struggle genuinely
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The fact is she does seem to waste money on tat and then moans she's poor. Poor people of course can have nice things, but to be honest if it comes down to feeding your kid slop or buying useless indulgent crap. I always go for the former.blaming Tories, benefits, price hikes and bills all you want but if you only have a few quid a month to do everything then pointless indulgent crap can wait.
 
It's a food diary!

Jack Monroe #289 I see that Jack Monroe is doing her attention seeking thang again. Tiresome.

Thank you; I’m also always happy to answer any & all questions folk may have here. But I sense in general any theological work in analysing Jack the Baptist Sunday School Teacher / Agnostic / Atheist may be few & far between. However, a question for any and all here - as I answered too - what...
tattle.life

"Today I woke up and then I was so tired I thought I would go to the bathroom where the light is good for a selfie and then I peed and then I thought I will put on my Goblin Barbie head for the photo but I couldn't find it because the cleaner moved it and then I found it and I took a photo and assiduously assigned a filter to the photo and posted it to the hellsite and got some money and I made a cheese sandwich then I went back to bed and when I woke up it was all a dream. Tomorrow I'll use a Big Word starting with B."

The Just Keep it Secret Diary of Jack Monroe aged 33 and a quarter
 
Wooh said:
It's a food diary!

Jack Monroe #289 I see that Jack Monroe is doing her attention seeking thang again. Tiresome.

Thank you; I’m also always happy to answer any & all questions folk may have here. But I sense in general any theological work in analysing Jack the Baptist Sunday School Teacher / Agnostic / Atheist may be few & far between. However, a question for any and all here - as I answered too - what...
tattle.life

"Today I woke up and then I was so tired I thought I would go to the bathroom where the light is good for a selfie and then I peed and then I thought I will put on my Goblin Barbie head for the photo but I couldn't find it because the cleaner moved it and then I found it and I took a photo and assiduously assigned a filter to the photo and posted it to the hellsite and got some money and I made a cheese sandwich then I went back to bed and when I woke up it was all a dream. Tomorrow I'll use a Big Word starting with B."

The Just Keep it Secret Diary of Jack Monroe aged 33 and a quarter
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And out of everything we have ever said she would screen shot this....I DO NOT HAVE A CLEANER!
 

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Tabitha D said:
I don’t think Matt was having a blast. Poor sod.
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Poor Matt 😢
Has he ever actually replied or liked a tweet from Jack? I suspect no. Surely that speaks volumes. Plus it would not surprise me at all if he vetoed the proposed next series of DKL if it meant Jack was involved. Or her ever appearing on Saturday KL. Not out of nastiness. Just self preservation and the fear she would latch onto him again.
I imagine all involved were quite aghast at her lack of professionalism, both on set and twitter.
Her tweeting Mrs Matt thanking her for lending him to her was possibly the cringiest thing I have ever read.
 
Jelly Bean said:
Poor Matt 😢
Has he ever actually replied or liked a tweet from Jack? I suspect no. Surely that speaks volumes. Plus it would not surprise me at all if he vetoed the proposed next series of DKL if it meant Jack was involved. Or her ever appearing on Saturday KL. Not out of nastiness. Just self preservation and the fear she would latch onto him again.
I imagine all involved were quite aghast at her lack of professionalism, both on set and twitter.
Her tweeting Mrs Matt thanking her for lending him to her was possibly the cringiest thing I have ever read.
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And Mrs Matt didn’t respond to that either. 😂
Very telling that Jack’s not been asked onto Saturday Kitchen even once in the TWO YEARS since she did DKL. Definitely blacklisted by the production co.
 

Jack Monroe #289 I see that Jack Monroe is doing her attention seeking thang again. Tiresome.

Yeah probably. My issue isn't who has full custody or care during holidays or whatnot, I couldn't give a fig. My issue is shes making out that this meal planner is to feed her, a teen and then another adult a few days a week. It's not though...it just feeds her! (Well, sort of..) Also, why can't...
tattle.life

I've "had" a cleaner* who made my job possible and my house a home when I worked as much as Jack pretends.

Now one of my PT jobs is BEING a cleaner! IMO, both sides of the fence are very good.

Right now, I'm having a cup of tea in my client's home now that all the beds are stripped and washing on. I'll be scrubbing/mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, windows, verandah, baking a low sugar birthday cake for client's 83yo father whose wife is in hospital, unlikely to return home, many other jobs, most not glamorous but all purposeful and in the "I've had worse days at work" category. I'm not a spokesperson for cleaners (duh!) but I've never met a cleaner who hates the job: there as many different reasons it suits as there are individuals.

The reason I'm writing a post about cleaners, just want you to know that if you use cleaning services, pay fairly and be respectful of your service provider, then be out and proud about it 🙂

Also, if you don't do housework much at all, that's excellent too. Life is short, dust will always be there.

* takes too long to type "used the services of a great cleaning technician" 🙂
 
You know what really grinds my gears about Jack, other than the grifting and general selfish shitness?
The way she says p instead of pence when pricing her recipes. It's so childish and something we were forbidden from doing at primary school.
Sorry but I have needed to get that off my chest for a while now.
As you were.
 
Morrisey said:
You know what really grinds my gears about Jack, other than the grifting and general selfish shitness?
The way she says p instead of pence when pricing her recipes. It's so childish and something we were forbidden from doing at primary school.
Sorry but I have needed to get that off my chest for a while now.
As you were.
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I stand with you! Completely irritating for no reason!

To be fair though, Jack's writing style is very irritating in general. :ROFLMAO: (She loves the word 'obfuscate' too, she's always throwing that in to sound clever.)
 
I think thread 289 is my favourite of them all.

Some thoughts on fab posts from page 39 on (when I was asleep because I was SO TIRED):

° people are much more likely to have a bad washing machine (a bra mangling, T-shirt holing, not cleaning or spinning properly, banging noise maker washing machine) than use a laundrette, and *that's* really hard on a household

° 18 months of skint is hard, so hard and also *not the same* as generational poverty, which limits a person's ability to (amongst other things) take risks, access and enjoy education. Generational poverty damages health from infancy. We know this. Here in these threads we talk about this. Jack doesn't even know she knows... what better example of generational good infrastructure and high expectations than leaving a job to find another?

Quare sequitur*, Jack has NFI and should up-shut



* Jack, feel free to use this pretentious Latin phrase. I googled it especially as a gift
 
Apologies here for potentially boring content, I was on a very limited food budget in the early 90s. Added to that my eldest child rejected anything with visible onions in it. It was years before the internet became common place, I like to to think I invented hidden veg. Me and my husband and I were paid monthly. I used to at the beginning of the month make a vat of home made tomato and vegetable sauce.

A few onions and carrots sauteed in vegetable oil with garlic. Any veg in the fridge needing using ( mushrooms, celery etc). Once soft I'd add 4 tins of tomatoes, bay leaves and oregano. Bring everything up to heat and simmer for at least 45 mins.

Once cooked I would blend well with my cheap stick blender. The results made many meals. I froze several portions but could use as a home made Dolmio with mince, add stock to make soup (lovely with cheese scones or toasted cheese sandwiches). The basis of a meat free chilli, the options were there.

I can see right through JM's performative noncence, she is an absolute fraud who makes food very few people will want to eat.
 
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