Jack Monroe #376 Schrödinger's Poor Person

[NeoCortex]

Noo not Pump Truck Jack ! There always seem to be plenty of warehouse jobs going- nothing to stop her applying !

Well she's talking tit. George usually doesn't have its own warehouse. And home and leisure never stopped selling cds. Moron

 

[Snotbuster]

Don't give her a job Asda. You should have never let her run wild with the lies about value items being removed from the shelf.

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Edited to add I mean don't give her social media work, as obviously Jack would never want nore be capable of a normal job in Asda.

Can a person blow a grocery store?

Maybe JM just gave Asda a squeezer when nobody was looking.

Seriously. This is a disgusting display--if there isn't any money changing hands. Asda/Wal-Mart doesn't even see you on their radar, JM dahling. They just aren't that into you.

 

[Snotbuster]

bleeping hell who is she sucking off at Asda? I would say she’s reached new heights of cringe but Georgia Church Suppers exists.

Glad to see that I wasn't the only one thinking blow job. Supa-cringe.

This I thought was quite ironic. Because it was a few women who dared to speak out about Jack Monroe defrauding and misleading people. I think they are all just a bit thick as it’s nothing to do with whether she has money or not. They don’t seem capable of stringing words together other than to spout ‘national treasure’ blah blah.

And I thought that JM was non binary. Refer to them as a person, not man or woman. Wasn't that the plea in a blog post or article? Not trying to be a dick. Trying to be correct but the JM gender identity is so changeable. Almost as if JM adopts and sheds identities in response to external criticism.

 

[Clarends]

I'm not as cash strapped as when I was with small kids and only my Harold's income but I still have a meal plan in my head doing my weekly ship. I hate food waste and the only way to avoid it is to plan every single meal and snack or be willing to eat random collections of food units as I call them, with no thought to taste or preference. These £20 shops are ridiculous.

Also now is a time of change which Jack could home into. I'm trying to plan meals using less gas and leccy. More practicing at the moment before they go up and the weather gets cold.

 

[Knit one Pearl one]

She's not going to be pleased...

 

[Snotbuster]

My mother in law is a PRIME example of this. She’s so effing smug about the fact she donates to the food bank every single week and makes such a song and dance about it - but when I saw what she was giving it was either budget brand supermarket stuff - or things that are just on the cusp of going out of date from her pantry (that makes me angry as well).

My sister in law fell on hard times a year or two back and her attitude was “here have £25 to go and spend at ALDI, no child of MINE will use a food bank” I just looked at her incredulously.

No idea what point I’m trying to make. I’m fed up, I’ve got PMT and JM’s performative nonsense is just utterly spiteful.

ETA - I’m not knocking budget brands - we eat a lot of them at home (Senor WinnyT and I) it just seemed to me she was giving the real junk from the ranges away.

My husband works for a food bank that supplies other food banks around our state. They like money donations because most of their food is purchased from grocery stores, producers, etc. In the US, grocery stores waste 20% of their stock, just business as usual. So the group he works for purchases dairy, eggs, meat, produce, dry goods that otherwise would be the waste and redistribute the goods.

They have some strict rules that their partner food banks have to comply with: anyone can show up and get food, no questions about need, citizenship, religion, marital status, children, no comments on the person's nice car, nothing. Just get the food to people.

The food distributions are also tailored to the recipients' cooking skill/kitchen availability. Someone living on the street can't eat raw chicken, someone living in a weekly rental motel may have a microwave and no fridge so perishable goods are also unhelpful. But if you do have a kitchen and fridge, you get fresh foods. Everybody gets fresh fruit and vegetables. The organization also has dieticians, cooking classes, and is set up so the recipients select their food at the distribution sites: two proteins, a gallon of milk, three veg, two fruit--whatever the formula is for that distribution.

It bugs me when people give canned corn beef hash that is a year past its use by date. Mmmm. Thanks. In that case, the thought behind the gift didn't count for squat.

Asda is owned by Walmart, one of the biggest companies in America that just so happens to have been sued multiple times for discrimination, union busting, and labor (sic) law breaches... oh and they are pro-gun because they sell lots of ammo. No better place to get your Del Monte peach slices really.

Thank you for pointing this out!!!!!!!

Is she actually having a midlif crisis?

Well, a midriff crisis

 

[DavidZero]

Don't give her a job Asda. You should have never let her run wild with the lies about value items being removed from the shelf.

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Edited to add I mean don't give her social media work, as obviously Jack would never want nore be capable of a normal job in Asda.

I don’t get it. Is the £20 budget her food budget for the week or is she donating it to someone else, or what?

I get confused sometimes (always) as to what she is doing / saying

 

[Knit one Pearl one]

I don’t get it. Is the £20 budget her food budget for the week or is she donating it to someone else, or what?

I get confused sometimes (always) as to what she is doing / saying

That's her food budget, apparently. For two active adults and a nearly teen...

 

[ChickenPorridge]

I don’t get it. Is the £20 budget her food budget for the week or is she donating it to someone else, or what?

I get confused sometimes (always) as to what she is doing / saying

She just posts tit for the clapping seals. Has a fully stocked store cupboard of more pastas/dried goods/stock/tins etc than you could shake a bollock sausage at. Has Call4Fish constantly messaging her trying to give her free fresh fish and God knows what else. She keeps a pov cupboard full of Asda basics for photo ops and to set out as props when doing talking heads on the subject. No doubt she'll show up on the telly at some point soon with that performative shop in tow.

Here's a pic of her Pov cupboard from Oct '20, ss by Silver. Not pictured: the motherload of fancy pastas and other dried goods from all other angles of her kitchen

Hahaha the wee jars of mixed herbs and stuff on the middle shelf!!! Not pictured: the hundreds of fancy spices/herbs/seasonings in expensive magnetic containers all up the side of her 3k Smeg, amazingly triangulated by forensic frau @colouredlines

 

[Snotbuster]

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How hard is it to shop for groceries? It's not a military campaign. JM isn't organizing D-Day. It's more difficult when you have less money to spend. But the underlying ideas: look at what's in the fridge, freezer, cupboard and then make a shopping list. Keep a running total as you shop. Not new ideas.

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Bullshit Jack is working with prisoners. I found the Doritos burrito, not tamale, in the first hit in jailhouse recipes: https://necessaryevilsorg.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/jailhouse-burrito-recipe-dorito-burrito/

So Jack works with: Asda executives, prisoners, former prisoners, poor people, governmental agencies and staff, television shows, producers, presenters, energy companies, whew...the list is awful long.

I actually think there’s something rather disordered in her behaviour here. She’s kind of fetishising the weekly shop and all the palaver around it. The photo before she sets out, the list of all the “equipment” she needs for said shop, the photos of her haul, and the endless explanations plus detailed written notes. It’s just all too much. It doesn’t need to be this complicated and it’s pretty unhealthy that she makes it so. And she gets all gleeful and giddy about it too, which is a sign things are not quite right.
For most of us, it’s just a mundane weekly task. We make a quick list, tot things up as we go along, buy our stuff, go home. It really shouldn’t take hours and hours. People in the real world, with real jobs and/or family responsibilities, just DON’T HAVE TIME for this crap.

My sister's partner got like this when he was on big coke benders. Makes you think.

 

[ChickenPorridge]

Oh go on then, let's look at them again. She didn't have any herbs amongst all those?! Had to buy a little Asda smart price jar of mixed herbs to add flavour to her basic pasta and plum tomato concoction? Cosplayerrrrrr

 

[ThePowderMonkey]

I saw a quote on Instagram and it said “accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behaviour harms others”. Makes you think.

 

[Nurseali]

Have I missed something.? Who is the other adult in her house? Christ I didn't think there was even one as she is a scampy little orphan, like Annie without the red hair.

 

[It’s The Truman Show]

She's not going to be pleased...

Love how profess he is not to directly get her involved. Embarrassing for Jack

 

[jenny2603]

Yes to all of this, you very, very wise squig.

 

[Captainmouse]

She’s so full of tit!!!! Those donations are probably made at the behest of the Issa brothers. Like they’re going to listen to a stupid, arrogant random who chats tit on Twitter.

She’s such a coward, she literally describes the Tory party as evil daemonic entities on the daily BUT when confronted with evidence that her inexplicably beloved Asda, the supermarket she’s obsessed with, is giving millions to said demonic Tory party what does she do? Announce a boycott? Call them out? NO! She’ll just make a “gentle suggestion “

Jack the phrase “all mouth no traaaazers” was INVENTED for you.

And she will work for them at the drop of a hat

 

[jenny2603]

And she will work for them at the drop of a hat

Except she won't get the chance. She's begging like a a pathetic dog "Ooooh look Asda do the best flasks-gissa job". Why? She's sitting doing it for free and when she makes an arse of herself again by telling everyone to shoplift and boil soap it doesn't reflect badly on them because she never worked for them.

 

[Captainmouse]

There's not enough food to make meals for a week, I'd love to know apart from the peach and chick pea curry what she is going to eat

Charlie bighams

 

[FrannyGallops]

Sorry jumping through the time space continuum but had to share this - is she bleeping dumb? Is this my aneurism?

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Is she seriously talking about a time property prices were <£10k?UNDER TEN GRAND? Single unit thousands? How much j1g do you have to snort for this take???

This is super London/SE centric as it’s all I can talk to sorry my gorge northern and midland and ex-England comrades but lbr it’s also all she’s thinking about. Under ten bleeping grand?! She’s talking about the property prices in the tit post war years where what’s now known as zone 4/5 was being densely populated with new build post war terraces & compulsory buy outs were happening all across east end slums, appallingly some of those houses are still standing today and worth £Millis when our grandparents’/their parents’ generations were forced out with just £3k given to them (when these new aspirational suburban houses were being sold for £6k+!). Brilliant take me back ey!

Does she think ppl were making an average of £40k a year and buying their house for £5k? Ppl were so poor back then it’s evidenced in the houses - there are still post war houses for sale now where that first gen are passing over, they have no central heating just the original fire places! No fitted kitchens or modern glazing. If you pull back the carpets you’ll see evidence of a time where no one could afford fitted carpets? These ppl weren’t ordering JL furniture weekly and jetting off to Venice! Then a few decades later was the constantly cited 1970s for appalling interest rates/living conditions?! How aspirational!

Like yes property prices are ridiculous and interventions need to happen & it was so much easier back then but I wouldn’t have described the quality of life back in the day as easy street. Our generation with access to more consumer goods & travel opportunities by far has had it far easier but idk why I’m even doing think pieces on what the daughter of multi generations of market distorting landlords has to say about property prices? Start by looking at home hun!!’

You expressed that so much better than I could have, dear heart. There’s a notion amongst *some* millennials that people in the past lived in a utopia of four figure house prices and free university education whereas the reality is as you’ve described - no holidays at all, let alone foreign holidays, university was only for a small section of the population, welfare benefits were nothing like we see today etc. It’s just as damaging as telling young people that they could afford a house deposit if they stopped eating avocados (?) and buying Starbucks.

 

[NeoCortex]

Grunking ahead (again!) to say - thirst trap cook
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Can I just add that her phone can also function as a notebook, pencil with rubber on the end and a calculator.