Oh the sweet joy of Instant Whip

Desserts of times gone by | Imported veg | Imperfect hearing | Deterring otters | Oldie slogans

Sam Wollaston (‘Mmm, straight back to the 70s!’: Writers revisit the foods they loved as kids, from Smash to Angel Delight, 9 March) would surely have had a more satisfying result if, instead of Angel Delight, he’d been able to sample the far superior Instant Whip, tragically unavailable since 2004.
Stephen Percy
Easton, Hampshire

What – no Creamola Foam?
Alistair Cant
Edinburgh

This week, in my online grocery order I included four seasonal vegetables that I patriotically imagined would be grown at home – chard, cavolo nero, carrots and cabbage. When putting them away, I saw that all except the carrots had been imported from Spain. Cabbage, for goodness sake! Can’t we do anything in Britain now?
Janet Christian
Exeter

I first realised that my hearing was not perfect (Letters, 7 March) very many years ago when teaching in a prison. Talking to a new student, trying to get to know him, I asked him about his interests and heard him say “Women”. He sat patiently through my tirade, and then said meekly: “I said swimmin’, Miss.”
Mary Brown
Stroud, Gloucestershire

After a couple of midnight feasts from local otters, my son resorted to placing a sign on his pond: “No fish kept in here overnight” (Letters, 8 March).
Frank Biggar
Horwich, Greater Manchester

Re oldies’ T-shirt slogans (Letters, 8 March), I have long wanted one saying “I think you will find it’s a bit more complicated than that”.
Tony Maynard-Smith
Letchworth, Hertfordshire

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