SARDINES AND TIN-OPENERS
Snt,—By his questions in the House on November ztst, on the subject of keys for sardines, Mr. Boothby did a valuable service in emphasising that sardines are best eaten with their tins off. At the same time I would recommend to him a tin-opener as being more dependable than a key and less drastic than a hatchet. Through some oversight of the Board of Trade and/or the manufacturers, tin-openers seem at present readily obtainable. In replying to Mr. Boothby, the Minister of Food expressed the hope that sardine keys would soon be forthcoming. This is a laud- able aspiration that should be welcomed—provided we face up to the danger of the possibility that at some juncture the supply of keys may coincide with the supply of sardines. But no dcubt we may rest assured that proper measures have been taken to guard against this contingency.— Yours faithfully, . ALINE MACKINNON. - High Quarry, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge.
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