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Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

There are no whole dishes or ingredients treated in a specific way in Sea of Rust, e.g. the waffles dipped in chocolate or strawberries dipped in pink sugar of Caraval
Black: generic food / ingredient, e.g. strawberries, or a generic drink, e.g. wine

Red text: food or drink used figuratively, e.g. waffle in the invective "twatwaffle"
In alphabetical order:
  • Beef (to ‘have beef’)
  • ​Brittle (character)
  • Brunch
  • Butter (‘like a knife through warm butter’)
  • Cake (‘a cakewalk’)
  • Candy
  • Candy-apple red (colour)
  • Cheese
  • Cherry-picked
  • Dogs
  • Eggs
  • Goat
  • Honey (as an endearment)
  • Honeycombed
  • Juice (as in energy/fuel)
  • Meat
  • Milk (as a verb ‘to milk a good thirteen or fourteen miles out of them’)
  • Nuts (as in insane)
  • Pancakes (an object ‘pancaked’ by something else)
  • Peach (as an endearment)
  • Peanuts (market value of homemade weapons)
  • Potato (‘a political hot potato’)
  • Potatoes (‘like a sack of potatoes’)
  • Rats
  • Salty and deep-fried
  • Sandwiches (something ‘sandwiched’)
  • Strawberries
  • Tea (with milk)
  • Tea rose, plum, and watermelon (colours)
  • Waffle (in the invective “twatwaffle”)
  • Water (freshwater or poisoned)
  • Wine
































In order of appearance:
  • Rats
  • ​Brittle (character)
  • Honeycombed
  • Milk (as a verb ‘to milk a good thirteen or fourteen miles out of them’)
  • Potato (‘a political hot potato’)
  • Strawberries
  • Cheese
  • Peanuts (market value of homemade weapons)
  • Candy-apple red (colour)
  • Beef (to ‘have beef’)
  • Salty and deep-fried
  • Waffle (in the invective “twatwaffle”)
  • Water (freshwater or poisoned)
  • Cherry-picked
  • Honey (as an endearment)
  • Juice (as in energy/fuel)
  • Meat
  • Goat
  • Sandwiches (something ‘sandwiched’)
  • Candy
  • Peach (as an endearment)
  • Wine
  • Brunch
  • Tea (with milk)
  • Cake (‘a cakewalk’)
  • Dogs
  • Nuts (as in insane)
  • Eggs
  • Potatoes (‘like a sack of potatoes’)
  • Butter (‘like a knife through warm butter’)
  • Pancakes (an object ‘pancaked’ by something else)
  • Tea rose, plum, and watermelon (colours)
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