Pilchard and pickled onion pizza isn’t junk food

What has pizza done to deserve being listed as “junk” food? (Eat better, feel better, G2, 18 March). It’s a dough made with olive oil, topped sparingly with whatever takes your fancy (my nine-year-old grandson is partial to pickled onion and pilchards on his – which, granted, might raise eyebrows in Naples). Moreover it’s cooked at high temperature without fat. Condemning bread, potatoes, rice and pasta would be as illogical.
Liz Young
West Chiltington, West Sussex

• Once again (18 March) I find that everyone featured on your obituaries pages seems kinder, wiser and a greater contributor to the public good than almost everyone featured in your news pages. Is this de mortuis nihil nisi bonum (speak nothing but good of the dead) or de vivendibus nihil boni dicendum (there’s nothing good to say of the living)?
Sarah Walker
Norwich

• My brother and I have a cunning plan to avoid circular walks (Letters, 19 March); we have completed several long-distance paths by leaving a car at each end of the relevant stage. I’m all for the minibuses that serve, in particular, national parks; but it is very difficult to complete certain walks outside these areas without a car.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton

• Otis Redding’s I’ve Been Loving You Too Long must be the saddest breakup song (Letters, 19 March). For a funny one check out Loudon Wainwright III’s I’d Rather Be Lonely.
Billy Morrison
Ayr

• Jilted John was always our favourite. A very fine lyric. I don’t know who wrote it but I can still hear it in my head.
Margaret Drabble
London

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