Jack Monroe off Twitter

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The latest in the ongoing saga is that JM has left Twitter after being 'hounded off'. The incident that seemed to provoke this...someone critiquing a photo of her mums roast potatoes. It just gets more and more bizarre.

To be clear, I don't like to see public pile ons and some of the abuse directed at Jack has been unpleasant. But a lot has also been reasonable, polite requests for information regarding her patreon which have largely been totally ignored. And her supporters have to be some of the most cruel people on Twitter. It seems like it's fine for JM to voice her opinion but as soon as others do the same they are called out for bullying. And ironically subjected to vile comments from her followers. Go figure.

Am I the only one who thinks she's probably best having a little Twitter break? But eventually if she's ever to redeem her reputation she needs to show some transparency regarding public donations.

I think she has opened people’s eyes to the reality of cooking on a low income

See that's the thing - I think she helped entrench the idea that you can eat, and healthily, for £20 a week if you just follow her advice and stop being frivolous.
It's a very harmful narrative so imo she's actively caused damage.

Sadly, I think she will. She'll dodge out of it somehow. Re-invent herself (and always as the plucky little fighter against injustice etc).

She hasn't been active on Twitter lately, or updated her "being sober" days (500 at last count. I suspect a Cunning Plan to claim that the bullying and harassment have pushed her off the wagon and it's ALL SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT!

To be fair the ingredients for the horribly named Come To Bed Parmigiano didn't seem bad. Not clever or cheap, but not bad.

The loaf made with vegetable peelings is another league entirely.😱

I agree. Her "I can feed 3 hearty appetites 3 meals a day plus snacks etc and still have enough for loo roll and cleaning stuff*" makes people think benefits are too high, if anything.

Her "recipes" are appalling - pure glop. They taste awful (yes - I've tried a couple) are tiny portions - not enough for an adult, and certainly not a growing teenagers (hollow legs, those things have), and are nutritionally unbalanced.

She effectively says that people are just stupid and/or feckless - they aren't they are POOR, and no amount of clever budgeting will help if you haven't got anything to budget with.

She's dangerous.

*except shower gel, obvs 😉

The loaf made with vegetable peelings is another league entirely.

The "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" all over again . . .

Ingredients on their own aren't necessarily bad, but the combinations and cooking methods are appalling! Many of them are very fuel heavy, too. People can't afford to have the oven on for an hour to cook a beetroot!

Well said!

Both of these are excellent books, as is Bernadine Lawrences "Feed your Family on £25/Week"

She's baaaaaaaaack . . . 😱

Re-homing a dining table . . . .

A 14 seater! Just what you buy new when you are poor and live in a crappy bungalow

You'd sell your ridiculously huge oak banquet table before you pretend to boil soap surely

A bungalow with stairs 😂

Awfullymolly has updated.

She makes me so angry with pretending to be poor. I used to find her inoffensive but couldn't see how she was helping anyone when I looked at her recipes. But I was shocked when I read all the information that AM had compiled. Jack Monroe is a grifter and fake.

She effectively says that people are just stupid and/or feckless - they aren't they are POOR, and no amount of clever budgeting will help if you haven't got anything to budget with.

I thought more, 'aren't I clever for making all these cheap meals' when plenty of others have been doing the same for years. Though I suppose she has been clever to get all the publicity and making a career out of it. She lost me as soon as she began, 9 years? ago, when she said her 3 year old ate as much as an adult!

Ingredients on their own aren't necessarily bad, but the combinations and cooking methods are appalling! Many of them are very fuel heavy, too. People can't afford to have the oven on for an hour to cook a beetroot!

I'd never followed her though have seen articles in the paper, but just after this thread started, she was on TV making a 'low cost' meal, macaroni cheese. Well can't argue with that, but hers had a more than average amount of ingredients one of which was bacon, and then it was put in the oven for about an hour. So turning a low cost meal into something way more expensive to produce.

Well, she might have been a low income, single mum, unable to work with a toddler, but how can she still be poor when she has published all those books and has had all those TV appearances and her son is too old to need childcare. She's either pretending to be poor or has been ridiculously feckless or, perhaps, both!

This bit is v funny twitter.com/readreceipt_/status/1593585695750234113?s=46&t=ybYslJF3SLWVShmrAG5yqw

Absolutely laughing at the poverty 14 seater dining table😂
I don't even live in a shitty bungalow and would not be able to have anything else downstairs with this moster😂

I think the tide has turned a bit. The fact this thread has been allowed to stand is possibly testament to that.

The TV and column work seems to have slowed, at least I haven't seen anything recent from her. And I think she's probably bad with money, but it's not right to claim the extreme poverty as she has been or to accept money on the back of that.

I hope she turns things around. Looks to something other than social media for validation and assistance. Perhaps get a job.

The whole banging on about how her recipes are free and that's why she 'rattles her tip jar' is also a puzzle.

Who else out there is charging for their recipes online? I can google any chef or cook you can think of and access the overwhelming majority of their recipes.

She's trying her usual trick of trying to bury the algorithm of bad news - often it's something like "what's your favourite boiled sweet from childhood' or "look viennetta!"

You would think so, wouldn't you.

I mean - in her crappy, damp, mouldy bungalow with the stairs your 14-seater table would become warped and ruined anyway - even if you could get it into the tiny ,damp, crappy room.

Well quite. I don't think people usually buy cook books for everyday recipes but as gifts or because they look nice on the shelf or because they like the narrative or author or flicking through for inspiration. I like to have a nice peruse of a cookbook and get some ideas and occasional recipes but usually when I use a recipe I google it.

I shouldn't laugh.

If it were anyone else, I wouldn't laugh.

But bearing in mind what an over-dramatic attention-seeker she is - I'm afraid I DID laugh! 😂😂😂

But then how would you entertain politicians and heads of industry to your 9p-a-head-5-course-banquets to bring home to them the poverty crisis?

Where would you display the croquembouche? Or the 20-place-setting Denby dining set you bought from a charity shop for 75p? And the solid silver canteen of cutlery you found in a puddle?

These people need somewhere to sit round and a folding card table just doesn't cut it . . .

The piece of paper in her passport has just about finished me off

As if.