I had to laugh at the idea of deciding what office-slave food to buy for a quick lunch. When I worked in France, we had an hour and a half at lunch, with two or three courses, wine if we felt like it. The French are more productive per head than Brits. Slimmer, too.
Brian Smith
Berlin, Germany
There is a gap in the market for a shop selling low-end sandwiches: peanut butter, meat paste, sandwich spread, Dairylea. For total authenticity, the bread would be folded, not cut.
LarringtonLobster
On theguardian.com
Lunchtime drinking is fine on the continent, where people seem able to have a drink without losing control, but Britons regularly demonstrate an inability to handle alcohol with any degree of common sense. When liquid lunches were all the rage, too many people would have five pints and no food, then head back to the office/factory.
jgbg
On theguardian.com
These days, drinking at lunch is only really acceptable if you’re with a manager, but it is a bit uncivilised and puritanical to drink water with lunch in a restaurant.
network9
On theguardian.com
“A hedgerow of different-coloured carrots… edible flowers… countryside on a plate. All very Peter Rabbit”. Perhaps, but in the eyes of my six-year-old, the actual bits of rabbit on the plate undermine the Beatrix Potter moment.
Martin Gibbons
Prenton, Merseyside
Everyday sexism is still rife: in the introduction to Julia Stiles’s Q&A, why link her film appearances to her male co-stars? You don’t do that in the reverse.
Marianne Farish
Edinburgh
Theo Simon is obviously a real hero, but maybe he suffered a blow to the head during one of his arrests: he says that all road building has to stop, and that we need to move to sustainable transport, yet owns a car because he has no other way of getting around. Google “bicycle” and/or “train”.
Karl Rowley
By email
The cheapest baby aisle product for grown-ups is a pack of baby wipes (50p-£1.50): ideal for the day-to-day care of hearing aids.
Geoff Reid
Bradford
Jess Cartner-Morley says “a jumpsuit on a plane works”. How can it, when you have to undress completely to pee? Or does she have a back flap?
Kay Kinnear
London
I Am Dancing Man was heartwarming, and the last sentence is a life lesson for us all: we might “just” be “average”, but being kinder to each other makes the world a better place.
Eileen Lumb
Wigton, Cumbria
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