Readers Send 4 Letters on Chips, AI and 1974 Cooking

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 21

Four reader letters published on Sept. 21 responded to recent features, ranging from fish-and-chip shops to AI, cooking and dress codes.
One letter argued that frozen chips now dominate catering and have degraded quality, urging shops to return to freshly cut potatoes fried on demand.
Another mocked BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day by asking whether an AI that hallucinates about its maker would air before a human atheist.
A third recalled feeding seven people in 1974 with a makeshift “Sino-Polish kedgeree,” while another praised Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter and briefly weighed in on whether the tie is dead.