The Daily Mail’s comical ‘supermarket staples’ were too much even for the Bootstrap Cook
As households get to grips with the escalating cost of living crisis, with estimates that families with two children face a £400 increase in monthly expenses, the Daily Mail had some good news for us.
Well, good news of a sort, highlighted by author @JimMFelton over on Twitter.
Necking pint after pint of sweet chilli sauce to beat the cost of living crisis pic.twitter.com/MyKWw9ffNK
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 22, 2022
Just in case that’s tricky to read (or you can’t believe your eyes and simply need to see it again).
And it prompted some very funny (and outraged) replies …
Combining them together to great the ultimate lunch/reason your coworkers hate you
— LIVE NOW TWITCH.TV/ (@_Papaglitch_) May 22, 2022
Daily Mail goes peak Partridge …. Nice. pic.twitter.com/m9Qt44bnC9
— Mick Coffey (@MickCoffey2) May 22, 2022
Staple diet of sprinkles
— Monkey Head (@monkeyhead78) May 22, 2022
I want to be in the room when they workshopped the story.
“Is 0.8 enough of a saving?!”
“Of course! That’s the heart of the article!”
(Many cigarettes and coffees later)
“…sprinkles are not a staple.”
“FOR THE LAST TIME. THE SPRINKLES STAY!!”
— Chris Washington (@c_washington) May 22, 2022
The air freshener is good news because of the mackerel based diet
— Matt Severn (@Matt_Severn) May 22, 2022
A new version of ‘Ready Steady Cook’ where people on low wages bring in bags of what they can afford from the shops and celebrity chefs try to make a gourmet meal out of mackerel, crispbreads and chilli sauce might be on its way?
— Vivienne (@Vdweller) May 22, 2022
“They say they’re starving, but they haven’t even tried cooking Mackerel in sweet chilli sauce and sprinkles for every meal”- Lee Anderson MP, probably
— Richard Cubitt (@richardrcubitt) May 22, 2022
Nothing to see here. Just the Daily Mail’s latest helpful contribution to the cost of living crisis – stop moaning and eat more nourishing sprinkles 🤷♀️ pic.twitter.com/927Yuun9uq
— Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) May 22, 2022
Cut your dishwasher tablets in half and eat mackerel and sprinkles, says the Daily Mail, whose owner Jonathan Harmsworth (aka Lord Rothermere) has seen his wealth rise by £120m in a single year under this Government. pic.twitter.com/fUVPqMYS1F
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 22, 2022
And then someone looped in Jack Monroe – the @BootstrapCook – who knows a thing or two about cooking on a budget.
Fantastic, not sure even @BootstrapCook could make this into a nutritious meal
— Kit (@whatkitdidnext) May 23, 2022
And it rather escalated from there.
I’ve been tempted, but suspect mackerel and sprinkles is a step too far even for me.
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
I’m game
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 23, 2022
And then wash it down with milk coke, you absolute animal.
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
FGS my ADHD brain has been trying to ignore everyone tagging me in this for days and now it’s going ‘well you DO do a sugar and spice fried fish that’s rather good……and sprinkles ARE literally sugar…’ no no no no NO NO NO
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
[chanting] sprinkle fish, sprinkle fish, sprinkle fish
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 23, 2022
STOP IT IT’S LIKE AN EARWORM BUT INSTEAD OF BEING THE PROCLAIMERS IT’S AN ELEVATOR PITCH FOR A TRULY TERRIBLE IDEA.
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
and I would sprinkle 500 fish and I would sprinkle 500 more
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 23, 2022
I will get you back for this. I don’t know how, I don’t know when, but I will.
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
And I’ll put sprinkles on my fish,
And I will sprinkle them some more,
Just to be that man who sprinkled on that fish,
Not hungry any more— Andy Clark (@AndyCRuns) May 23, 2022
Sincere admiration for your commitment to the pentameter there, Andy.
And sincere (mildly inconvenient) hexes upon you forevermore for getting this RIDICULOUS SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD.
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
Well now I have four alternating Sprinkle Fish Song earworms thanks to our excellent readers, any more for any more and we can do a charity album
— Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) May 23, 2022
To be continued (probably) at @BootstrapCook on Twitter here or @JimMFelton over here.
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