Jack Monroe #548 Recipes that come with a side of electrocution and burnt down house for pudding

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LittleMissMuffet said:
Where did we steal fish and chips from?!

Also please can you and Disgruntled goat (can’t seem to tag or spoiler or anything!) be my neighbours…who love feeding neighbours….
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The true origins about fish 'n chips are obscure.

The theory is that the concept of battered and deep fried fish came with Jewish migrants escaping European pogroms in the 18th or 19th centuries. They came to London's East End where there was already a thriving street food scene because so many working people didn't have time or decent cooking facilities in their slums. And the new railways meant that fish could be caught and transported to London while still fresh.

The chips were thought to have been brought by Huguenot migrants from Belgium or the Netherlands where frites are also well known. The Brits already had a fondness for potatoes (brought from the Americas by the Spanish) as we grow good root vegetables in our fields.

What Londoners did was combine the two, wrap them in a bitta newspaper and bob's your uncle.
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I'm not actually here said:
Eat with Wensleydale... Oooh yummy. Cheese and fruitcake very traditional in the Yorkshire Dales too.
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Yes! I learned that from James Herriot.
 
TheDragonWithAFlagon said:
It's also responsible for a huge amount of cultural capital and can act as a jumping off point for self directed learning -

Sesame Street, including the Alphabet Song (with an X Y Zee) = learning that Americans pronounced some letters differently, that there were different spellings that sounded similar. And that anything American = parent was going to hate.

General pronunciation of English, French and Italian.

See a film on a Saturday afternoon = I'll read the book that's lurking in the shelves. Learning that a lot of things on TV were originally books (and could be better).

Film tropes.

First introduction to the Ship of Theseus Paradox.

Greek mythology. Ulysee-ee-ee-ee-ees. The Iliad and Homer's Odyssey. Whether through the medium of rabbits or with the chills of the Hydra's teeth soldiers (and therefore giving an idea of how to pronounce the names when read in a book I was bought after being transfixed by Harryhausen movies - because there wasn't anybody in the house who had a Scooby how to make sense of Ancient Greek).

Alexandre Dumas. One for all and all for one, Muskehounds are always ready...

Religion. For good, for bad, for indifference.

All of those 30s, 40s and 50s movies.

Programmes about Art and painting, even the design and lighting in programmes and films evoking eras and aesthetics.

Sarcasm. My first true language. Hyperbole, scathing comments, irony, infamy (infamy, they've all got it in fer me).

HG Wells, Jules Verne, Philip K Dick, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare.


It's how I knew about different countries, that other people's homes looked different, that other people had different lives that included jobs and education, music was more varied than anything heard indoors, that people spoke differently.


TV is the way I became able to pass for a vaguely functional human being. Because there wasn't any way I was going to be anything but a repeat of the previous generations without it there to give me a glimpse of something else, something more.
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And years ago, those random Open University programmes in the middle of the night. Those opened my eyes to all sorts of subjects I'd never have even known existed.

Second request to become near neighbour (do you have a garden shed I could live in?!) to any foodies in the canal.
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It has just dawned on me that some TV commissioning editor is seriously missing a trick here. A series where the canal do a cookery show. Not a Slopalong, but one highlighting what is clearly extensive food knowledge amongst folk here. Bags be in the tasting section of the audience!!!
 
Mr Krabs said:
With the tit boots and edgy hair, I’ve just realised she looks like Panzee from the Zingzillas.

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This was taken just before Panzee pawned her guitar and turned to sex work.
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Flashback to when SB was a very SB and we loved ZingZillas. It was on at like 6am 🤣 followed by a lion…heady times with the toddler…that’s unlocked some cute memories 🙏🏻❤️
 
Valiofthedolls said:
Just noticed this in the @VeniVidiVicki haul
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Mither DV, unaliving
That’s a grim choice of expression and a very odd one for someone who has claimed multiple times she experienced violent assaults from more than one intimate partner (including a separate highly detailed claim on her blog just 5 months before the Gloss post above)
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Mind you, this below is also an odd choice of expression from someone who later claims at this time she was a “wraith” who could go for weeks without speaking to another human being and who has also (years later) luridly claimed multiple times she attempted suicide in a bath at the end of July 2012. So less than 2 1/2 months after writing this.
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bleeping GHOUL. Oh and LIAR.
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tit like this makes me absolutely rage. I’m in the midst of a manic episode ( only just clicked today - not sleeping properly, appetite everywhere, very very anxious and agitated, my mind wanting to go a million miles an hour but my body is exhausted as well as other signs )…. How bleeping DARE she with this tit seriously. I can’t even…

I know when this episode is over ( never sure how long they last with cyclothymia - it’s not as long as Bipolar 1/2 - and I don’t know if I peaked today or it’s just the start) But at the end I will crash and that’s when the dark emotions come in to it. So to see someone write this bollocks - for likes, money, attention - when you’ve been in that place for real but you can’t talk to your family about it let alone put it on a bleeping blog post…duck you Jack.

I wrote this on a post last night but felt bad after so deleted it off but actually between SB, the kitten and that bullshit above, duck it - I’m going to say it again.
It’s a good job you love yourself so much Jack - because no one else is ever going to love you and it’s all your own fault you disgusting creature.

ETA - edited for my appalling grammar and spelling tonight. Help @MancBee 🤣
 
StewPots said:
tit like this makes me absolutely rage. I’m in the midst of a manic episode ( only just clicked today - not sleeping properly, appetite everywhere, very very anxious and agitated, my mind wanting to go a million miles an hour but my body is exhausted as well as other signs )…. How bleeping DARE she with this tit seriously. I can’t even…

I know when this episode is over ( never sure how long they last with cyclothymia - it’s not as long as Bipolar 1/2 - and I don’t know if I peaked today or it’s just the start) But at the end I will crash and that’s when the dark emotions come in to it. So to see someone write this bollocks - for likes, money, attention - when you’ve been in that place for real but you can’t talk to your family about it let alone put it on a bleeping blog post…duck you Jack.

I wrote this on a post last night but felt bad after so deleted it off but actually between SB, the kitten and that bullshit above, duck it - I’m going to say it again.
It’s a good job you love yourself so much Jack - because no one else is ever going to love you and it’s all your own fault you disgusting creature.

ETA - edited for my appalling grammar and spelling tonight. Help @MancBee 🤣
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Do look after yourself @StewPots. Hope you have some good support irl. Go gently.
 
Mr Krabs said:
Remember when she threatened to sue the Express for calling her a celebrity chef?

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It’s only OK to call her that if you’re paying her for a ‘talk’.

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She looks like a bleeping serial killer in that photo. I do hope there is a Netflix doc on her ridiculous existence one day.
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I'm not actually here said:
Sorry, need to know, was it this? https://lakesfreerange.co.uk/westmorland-pepper-cake/

Add 'collaborate' to words that Jack doesn't know nor understand.
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SLOP - Won’t Collaborate, or listen
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MurielSnark said:
Do look after yourself @StewPots. Hope you have some good support irl. Go gently.
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Thank you darling 🧡

Yes my mum is staying over to help with SB, housework etc. Partner is here in evenings also… just got to ride it out but if I start struggling it’s on to the MH crisis team as I may need meds adjusting.

I’m hoping I get a few hours tonight. Although I did have two hours last night, where my mind dreamt an entire episode of Silent Witness ( Amanda Burton years ) and it was actually really bleeping good! My dreams get proper fucked up when I’m in an episode. Also super super vivid and I can remember them for days afterwards. The brain is indeed a glorious mystery. Shame Jack doesn’t have one the prick.
 
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Valiofthedolls said:
I truly believe she found herself in the tit back then due to overspending and just acquiring for the sake of it. We don’t know how long she lived there, but we do know she was living (almost definitely rent free) with a partner in that partner’s home up until about 3 weeks before she flounced from the fire service in Nov 2011. They split in the October, Jack immediately moved into the (unnecessarily large) luxury executive two-bed apartment, went off work with stress and then within 2-3 weeks, quit her job and went on benefits.

I also fully believe that Jack renting that overly fancy apartment and flouncing from her job were in large part so she could needless to say have the last laugh and SPITE her ex-partner/guilt trip her into taking Jack back.

It’s also incredibly telling that despite all her ridiculous pov cosplay and coming on/off benefits for short lived periods of minimum wage employment and self-employment in 2012 she managed to keep up the rent on two different £725 (until the October) then £675 from Oct onwards flats throughout 2012.

The tit seems to have REALLY hit the fan for her in 2013 where she lived in 5 different places, moving four times between June/July and Dec 31st, AFTER the £25k book advance, the Fortnum’s award, the Guardian column and all the other attention and other ££ showered on her. Oh and she had a full time job from late February 2013 on THE NEWSPAPER too, so she was earning a decent amount through 2013 but just financially fucked throughout.

Oh and she lived rent free with yet ANOTHER sugarmama that autumn 2013 (PoPo fiancée, a 4 month relationship tops, from start to finish) before that too went tits up and she had to move from there into the fourth of five places she lived that year- again rent free, this time a friend’s place they were selling and let her live in.

Luckily rich Ol Leggy with the big London townhouse showed up when she did in Feb 2014 to save the day and save Jack more of that pesky rent etc so Jack could squander even more of her money on…acquiring stuff that by the time Leggy got sick of her less than 18 months later allegedly (in Jack’s own words) took 7 Luton vans, several estate cars and 6 months to move back to Southend*

ETA *moved into another 2 bedroom flat she lied and claimed was a tiny cold hovel of a 1 bed where she slept in the lounge, even though both the Times and The NY Times visiting her there that autumn and outed it as being a 2 bed (and the Times as it having a grand piano!) , and about a year after moving there Jack herself outed as a 2 bed.
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QMLAN and This is total conjecture/mithering and not based in anything whatsoever other than everything we know of Jack:

Here are her CCJs posted earlier this year by @ExDeveloper (and I added the red one, it was the amount of CCJ squig’s cost at the time of this post)

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Now CCJs last only 6 years so any she racked up while with Leggy (Feb 2014-June 2015) would have rolled off here. To be clear, for the reasons below I don’t think for a second she racked any up there. Interesting to note that she didn’t rack up any at all while with LJC (March 2017-May 2020).

Almost as if her wealthy partners (whether inadvertently, naively or otherwise) prop up and enable her irresponsible spending.

In fact (TOTAL conjecture on my part), I wonder if as a wealthy 40something homeowning sugarmama “lady restauranteur millionaire” Hi, major-general! 👋
 back in 2014 enganged to a newly escaped from poverty young thing with a terrible sob story, Leggy didn’t wipe some of that past debt mess up for her £££.

The 2016 unsatisfied CCJ pre-LJC means that LJC didn’t swoop in as saviour of Jack’s credit rating, but let’s face it, a VAST amount of the grift happened (and that which was already occurring grossly accelerated) during that relationship and it’s pretty clear (even just from Jack’s words) that LJC heavily subsidized her financially.

Not saying LJC was responsible in the slightest for the grift and the spending but at best she had her head in the sand and enabled Jack, even if she did stop her from crowdfunding a house.

ETA when standing in the crater of boiled soap, charred fragments of her heart and water filled air fryers, I wonder whether Jack thinks back to that moment in Dordrecht rich Ol Harold finally saw sense, and that moment of 31st July where she hit publish and torpedoed anything left of her “credibility”? I’m guessing not, because none of it is ever HER FAULT.
 
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DinosaurSenior said:
@StewPots I love your posts. You make me laugh so much, plus you're so insightful re the grift! X
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Awww thank you @DinosaurSenior 🧡

I always enjoy your posts too :)

I know I haven’t been here very long, but I really do love these threads. It’s crazy that one grifting bellend bought us all together. So much kindness in these threads ( you could learn a thing or two from us Jack, you utter knob ) and also SO MUCH LAUGHTER.

Clever, funny, forensic, insightful lovely bunch of Fraus and Herrs. I have left my bedroom to sit downstairs and watch horror stuff as still unable to sleep 🙄 bleeping mania. Jack doesn’t have a bleeping scooby.

The appetite thing kicks in helpfully at night too, so sat with bags of Frazzles and some Jamaican ginger cake ( shop bought - I can cook really well but I can’t bake for tit. Send sympathyos and cakeos please 🙏🏻)
 
StewPots said:
Awww thank you @DinosaurSenior 🧡

I always enjoy your posts too :)

I know I haven’t been here very long, but I really do love these threads. It’s crazy that one grifting bellend bought us all together. So much kindness in these threads ( you could learn a thing or two from us Jack, you utter knob ) and also SO MUCH LAUGHTER.

Clever, funny, forensic, insightful lovely bunch of Fraus and Herrs. I have left my bedroom to sit downstairs and watch horror stuff as still unable to sleep 🙄 bleeping mania. Jack doesn’t have a bleeping scooby.

The appetite thing kicks in helpfully at night too, so sat with bags of Frazzles and some Jamaican ginger cake ( shop bought - I can cook really well but I can’t bake for tit. Send sympathyos and cakeos please 🙏🏻)
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Night snacks!
 
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