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)