There are many dishes to be discovered in the Central Belt, but my favourite is the hoagie wrap - chips, cheese, Doner, and sauce all wrapped in flatbread for ease of consumption.
The foremost chapter is especially good at exploring these themes, which I believe is available elsewhere as a short story. Its inspiration, an anecdote of Burke's where her houseplants had been found to attack and starve each other, shines through quite clearly: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=686...
I agree. In my humble opinion, the correctness of a word in a given context should be gauged on its utility in communicating a concept. Tomatoes are fruits in a botanical context, but not necessarily in a culinary context. Likewise for the planethood of Pluto, as mentioned elsewhere under this comment.
To hypothesize on a more contentious issue, I think that this ties into contemporary debates on gender identity. The terms "woman" and "man" are ancient and ubiquitous, but only recently seem to be showing as inadequate in certain contexts. Universally defining these terms seems like it would elevate some of these contexts above the others, which would inevitably invite backlash from people for whom these contexts are less common.
To nitpick, that list has at least three British films pop up in the latter half of the 20th century (Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever and Moonraker). Relaxing to "non-Anglosphere" is still very notable though.