Sir, I support the proposal to ensure proper sandwiches for Su Doku solvers to keep their hands clean (letter, June 17), but urge caution before rushing into a European standard.
As a Eurocrat in the 1990s, scampering out of EU headquarters to spend my ecus and my long lunch on a proper British roast beef sandwich, I learnt to order une tartine — two slices with properly contained filling — not un sandwich, a crumbly foreign roll full of miscellaneous multinational stuff.
Perhaps there is a more general lesson here.
SUSIE SYMES
Notting Hill, London
From Mr Alan Morgan
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Sir, Anyone who eats a sandwich with mint sauce and redcurrant jelly in it should be banned from tackling Su Doku.
A. MORGAN
Shepperton, Middlesex
From Mr Jim Cowley
Sir, My main complaint about sandwiches is the ubiquitous mayonnaise. Why is it virtually impossible to buy a sandwich without mayonnaise plastered all over it? One major outlet has replaced its perfectly good ham salad sandwich without mayonnaise with a “healthy ham salad sandwich with low-fat mayonnaise”.
JIM COWLEY
Walsall, West Midlands