I worked in one as an evening job while at school 20 years ago. They took pride in this stuff back then. You were trained on how to place the fillings in just the right way to make it look like it should. You had a booklet you had to memorise on it. I remember people took pride when customers remarked "wow it actually looks like the picture".
They had area managers and secret shoppers come in and grade you on this stuff, and you'd get put on out of hours training if you failed (they would do stuff like get a group in the back just cutting all of the left over bread from the previous day, to learn to cut it at just the right angle).
Not any more, and hasn't been like that in some time.
Why should it be different if they add a service charge and a delivery charge to it already
It depends if you are looking for traditional or contemporary cuisine.
Traditional:
Can't get much more traditional than a Sunday roast. Perhaps not the most spiced dish, but relies on a complexity of ingredients cooked just right, and served with a combo of rich gravy and various sauces (mint, cranberry, redcurrant, horseradish, mustard etc are all common). Certainly a flavourful dish when done right.
Pies and pasties are historically very popular. These days sometimes mistakenly viewed as plain food due to the availability of simpler fast food offerings, but there are a huge variety of styles, flavours and complexities around. Pies as a category cover those made with different types of pastries, as well as those topped with potato (cottage pie, shepherds pie, fish pie etc).
There are a huge variety of other traditional dishes from across the UK to explore which Google can list out a load of, but truth is historically much of British cuisine was based on what was locally or seasonally available; seasonal veg, seafood, cheeses, breads and cakes.
Local knowledge and variety is also huge. I'm Welsh and could name dozens of Welsh dishes others in the UK won't have even heard of, and you won't find much mention of even online and know what you're looking for.
Contemporary:
..per the meme, Britain's imperial past does mean a multicultural present, and the reality is that that has influenced common cuisine in a big way - what many British people are eating on a regular basis are based in fusion.
Curries are incredibly popular, and it is worth noting that written British curry recipes predate the founding of the USA, and imported recipes predate that by hundreds more years - it isn't a particularly recent or novel thing. British curries are as unique to Indian curries as eg Chinese or Japanese curry is. Not only that, each country within the UK has unique variations of curry attributed to them.
Anglo-Chinese and Italian food are also particularly popular - most towns across the UK that are big enough to have a couple of restaurants will have a minimum of a fish and chip shop, a Chinese, an Indian/curry house, kebab shop, and an Italian restaurant. Most cities have places serving foods from dozens of countries available. In big cities, London in particular, it is probably easier to name countries that there isn't food from than there is.
Growing up, a typical week of 7 home cooked dinners looked like Pasta bake or lasagne, curry, stir fry, jacket potato and/or soup, fish & chips, fajitas, Sunday roast.
.. That turned into a bigger answer than intended 😂
If this is what a country's cuisine looks like to you, I think it says more about your choice in food than what is available from that country's cuisine.
If there is adequate competition in the market, yes.
Insurance as a product invites monopolisation and collusion though, so competition relies on strong regulation, which not all insurance markets across the world enjoy..
I recall visiting the US and needing some paracetamol (acetaminophen), and the smallest quantity available to buy in the pharmacy was a bottle of like a hundred or something (may have been more)
Blew our minds. In the UK they come in packs of 16 max and you aren’t allowed to buy more than 2 packs at a time.
Edit: correcting auto correct errors
Can't recall if it's mentioned in the mainline walking dead but gasoline going bad is definitely a thing in the walking dead universe, and a significant plot line in a season of so of fear the walking dead.
Wow. Read this (as a regular Amazon user) and thought "no way it's that hard". I tried, and including a multiple product side scrolling and with multiple options as 1 entry, the official one was 5th in the list, and you can only tell that's the case because "Nintendo Switch" is bolded and you can check the seller when you click on it. Not impossible but certainly not as simple as you'd expect.
I guess if you're very used to it you don't notice but I can see how that would jade or confuse new/inexperienced users and lead to buying the wrong or an imitation product.
Out of touch with tech and privacy minded population perhaps, but right on point for the majority of grease guzzling patrons they're targeting as their primary demographic, who probably think that's cute
Yes. If you give two sets of people sugar pills and tell one set they are sugar pills, and the other that they're eg painkillers, the latter group will report (on average) a reduction in pain related issues while taking them.
This is why alternative treatments that don't medicinally do anything, like homeopathy, can appear to be effective - people believe they work and so they do, but if they just believed a cheap sugar pill they would help them, it would do for much cheaper. Even better get real meds that you believe in, and you get actual medicinal effect with a placebo boost.
Good Pharmaceutical trials are generally "blind" for this reason, ie there will be a control group getting a placebo to compare the effect of the medicine to that, rather than to nothing as comparing to nothing would make most things appear effective. Even better is "double blind" where the researcher doesn't know until after either, so that their interactions or behaviour don't give anything away, and that they don't bias their analysis.