Thanks, Arwa Mahdawi, for confirming my granddaughter’s view of me. She’s satisfied that I’m bizarre for my breakfast behavior of placing orange juice on cereal (Orange juice on cereal? I want that was the worst meals mixture round, 11 Could 2022). I assumed I’d invented it with out the assistance of Tropicana, as a result of for 80-plus years I’ve not favored milk on cereal. However then I grew up pondering that my Lancastrian uncle’s behavior of placing gravy and sugar on yorkshire pudding was regular. What different bizarre, shameful meals habits are on the market?
Keith Hibbert
Newcastle upon Tyne
Once we lived in Ghana within the Nineteen Seventies, our canine, like all of the canines within the hospital compound the place we lived and labored, was consumed millet porridge (‘Folks say they need me arrested’: the house owners placing their pets on vegan diets, 11 Could). Any whiff of meat, eggs or gravy to eat was reputed to show them into critical hunters and hen killers. Boots was a pleasant, clever and wholesome village mutt, who confirmed no indicators of malnourishment.
Dilys and Lewis Noble
Sheffield
As a vegan, I too have struggled with the environmental and animal-welfare impression of feeding my two canines a conventional meat-based eating regimen. As an alternative I feed them an insect-based eating regimen. This gives all of the dietary advantages of meat with out me having to face the concomitant moral minefield. It has the additional advantage that the canines find it irresistible.
Diana Thornton
Oxshott, Surrey
All cod liver oil spoons ought to have a big gap within the centre (Letters, 11 Could).
Brian Cowen
Darwen, Lancashire