Wasn’t the main selling point (if it could be called that) was that someone could travel from London to Birmingham 11 minutes quicker? I wonder if that’s still true.
This might pass US food standards, but I can imagine the rest of the world would have a few objections.
There’s too many factors over which there is virtually no control, such as other things ending up in the food bin (plastic wrappers, people’s saliva, etc). It would be classified as not fit for human consumption.
*neighbour.
The language didn’t need to be simplified until after 1776.