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Letters

With fondue you needn’t double dip

Fondue
Eating fondue doesn’t have to be unhygienic, writes Sylvia Pageon. Photograph: margouillatphotos/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Your reporters, columnists and cartoonists have been very uncharitable to Theresa May this week. Perhaps you could redress the balance by printing a picture of her attending church this weekend.
Graham Sowter
Blackburn, Lancashire

• Vile as the “rape clause” exemption to the “two-child cap for child tax credits” is (Editorial, 19 April), it applies equally to any parents with a religious objection to contraception. Is their conscientious quandary of no significance?
Fr Julian Dunn
Great Haseley, Oxfordshire

• Do not despair about cleaning your ears (Cotton buds and plastic straws could be banned, 19 April). In the US, you can still get the old kind with wooden sticks. And they work better too, because the stems do not bend. Just bring ’em back here!
Phil Cerny
York

• Fondue has been constantly eaten in many parts of Europe since the 1970s (Arwa Mahdawi, G2, 18 April). And no double dipping, because you have the long fondue fork to dip your bread into the cheese mixture, you then take it off that fork on to your plate with another, normal fork with which you eat the bread while fixing another piece of bread on your long fork for dipping. So it will be the war that finishes us off in the end and not the fondue!
Sylvia Pageon
London

• RP Blows’ comment on “raised” (Letters, 19 April) struck a chord with me. How did we end up with that awful mouthful of sibilance, “disassemble”? What was wrong with “dismantle”?
Emyr Owen
Llanfairfechan, Conwy

• Why on earth didn’t you go with the headline “Pompeo plays Pyongyang ping pong” (Trump confirms CIA chief’s visit to North Korea, 19 April)? Such chances come rarely.
Colwyn Lee
Derby

• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com

• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters

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