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

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Veronicaaa said:
Sorry to go on but why would you even lie about making the pastry yourself? Even Nigel Slater says it's not worth the bother. And he's not meal planning for people who are time and money poor.
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I had a London-based colleague once who had taken a cookery course with one of the big name chef schools (can't remember the name now). I was amazed when they said although they were taught to make pastry as part the course they were every professional kitchen uses Jus Rol as pastry from scratch take up too much times and can be unreliable on the day. 🙀
 
Sorry if I’m incredibly late to the party, but my Jack origin story comes through my Mum. My mum worked for DWP all of her working life, and can sniff out grifters and fraudsters from a mile away. I should point out here that she is also very left-wing, and she herself would point out that benefit fraud etc makes up a very small minority of claims, and most people who receive benefits don’t always get everything they’re entitled to. The small minority of people making fraudulent claims tend to be memorable, and she also sat next to the fraud team and would hear a lot of stories. She’s also a big twitter user and at the start of lockdown she turned to me and said “That Jack Monroe is full of tit”, and at the time I thought she was being incredibly harsh on a poor single mother who’d had a hard time. I ended up googling Jack, found these threads and the rest is history. My mum has always been forensic with an excellent bullshit detector.
ETA: not suggesting in any way Jack has ever done anything sketchy re benefits, and that wasn’t my mum’s opinion either. She’s just very experienced in spotting lies and inconsistencies. Extremely annoying when I was a teenager and couldn’t get away with anything.
 
Yel said:
I missed the clubcard rant - https://tattle.life/threads/jack-monroe-287-blender-critical.29156/post-9342111

Such a bizarre thing to "despise with a passion". Loyalty cards have always given users a benefit in exchange for handing over data, nothing new there. People can make up their own choice if it's worth it. Set up a burner clubcard each time you go shopping if you're that enraged by the privacy.

In terms of the bad things done in the capitalist world it doesn't register, let alone in terms of all the things in the world to despise.
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Ugh isn’t “grinds my gears” a Sali Hughes statement ?
 
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