Sugar for mushy peas? Well you need this for chips!

ALMOST 56 years ago I moved from London to Poppleton and have long since fallen in love with York and Yorkshire. However, I still have one last culinary hurdle to conquer; mushy peas!

D M Deamer’s letter (Friday, March 20) concerning his family’s habit of putting sugar on their mushy peas was most interesting. I actually love garden peas and always keep petit pois in the freezer. These small peas have a high sugar content which suits my sweet tooth.

When I next go out for fish and chips, I shall put some sugar in my bag along with the mayonnaise (for the chips) and order mushy peas with confidence.

Mayonnaise? At the age of 20 I spent the summer in a large electrical engineering factory in Charleroi in Belgium. The works canteen was a joy and the endive soup and the chips served with mayonnaise were stars.

By the way, both the Belgians and the French claim to have invented chips roughly 300 years ago and the Belgians even have a Chip Museum (Frietmuseum) in Bruges to prove it!

Quentin Macdonald

Manor Farm, Church Lane,

Nether Poppleton,

York

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Why Israel’s war with Iran is legal

NIGEL Cummings, in a letter to The Press (March 23), says that,”some ‘experts’ agree that the war being waged against Iran by Israel and and t he US is illegal…”.

That may be the case with America’s war, but not, I think, in the case of Israel.

Iran has long sought the total destruction of Israel. Why, I do not know. The two countries are hundreds of miles apart, and until recently Israel presented no threat to Iran.

But Iran has funded both Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist organisations seeking Israel’s destruction.

From time to time the regime in Tehran causes crowds to assemble and chant, “Death to Israel!” And it is widely assumed that if ever Iran developed a nuclear bomb, it would use it on Israel.

So Iran presents an existential threat to Israel. It has over eight times the population of Israel, and money drawn from the sale of its oil and gas.

My understanding understanding of international law is that any country presented with such a threat to its existence is entitled to defend itself. If Iran wishes for peace, it needs to give credible assurances that it will acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, and cease funding Hamas, and Hezbollah.

David Martin,

Rosedale Avenue,

Acomb,

York

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Net zero is a concept for the fairies

STARMER’S leadership qualities are severely exposed as non-existent by his failure to send Miliband into the political wilderness.

He should allow a sensible energy minister to reopen the North Sea gas and oil fields to enable our country to have sufficient cheaper supplies instead of having to import the same at higher cost.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, net zero is a concept for the fairies including Starmer.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton,

North Yorkshire

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What controversy?

In his most recent letter, responding to Nigel Cummings, Matthew Laverack makes reference to the ‘controversial Spark development’. I would put it to him that one man’s tireless letter writing campaign does not a controversy make…

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