Banned Substances:

britishfoodinamerica declines to dignify these subjects with discussion or description.

• Alium, a formerly acceptable word rendered both cliché and inaccurate by food writers
• Bake used as a noun, as in ‘cheesy bake’
• Call out
• Cancel culture
• Cheesy used to describe something that includes cheese
• Glug (as ‘of olive oil’)
• Granular
• Hack as a noun
• Hot mess
• ‘Locals’ used to refer to the inhabitants of a place
• The male gaze
• The female gaze
• Opaque, because routinely misused
• Oppression, in widespread usage as a trope or historiographically anachronistic epithet

• Swaps in

• Unpack used instead of analyze or explain
• Executive Declarations of National ‘Emergency’
• autofiction
• clean food; clean eating
• ‘brut’ India Pale Ale
• white tuna packed in water; salty sawdust in a can
• the word “performative”
• the words “privilege” as a verb and “privileged”
• to “helm” something
• to “pen” something
• to “curate” anything except for an art exhibition
• the term “self-identify” and its permutations
• the phrase “I’m loving it”
• contractions in general
• the construction “I like that something is/does/has something”
• the phrase “here’s the thing”
• to “reach out” to someone
• the tagline “long story short”
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• pino grigio
• the fifty seven varieties of ‘two buck chuck’
• deep fried Mars bars
• the eating of rats in Patrick O’Brien novels
• anything labeled ‘lite’
• ‘light’ beers
• English lager beers (except to loathe)
• Olde English 800 malt liquor
• French beer
• French ‘Scotch’ whisky
• Japanese ‘Scotch’ whisky
• the word ‘deliciousness’
• prudery in Puritan New England
• Victorian prudery
• the ‘hilarity’ of the culinary term ‘faggot’
• the ‘hilarity of ‘spotted dick’
• ‘quaint’ English tearooms in America (except to mock)
• vegan ‘food’
• vegetarian hot dogs
• Oscar Meyer hot dogs
• British weather
• British tabloid newspapers
• the inauthenticity of curry powder
• the inauthenticity of British curries
• the evils of the British empire
• Marcus Rediker
• Antonin Scalia (except to despair)
• Ted Cruz ( see both previous entry and ‘English lager beers’
• high fructose corn syrup
• jars of readymade tomato sauce for pasta ( see previous entry)
• reconstituted lemon juice in plastic bottles shaped like lemons (although the bottles themselves are somewhat whimsical)
• jars of diced garlic (bitter!)
• commercial ketchup other than Heinz
• “foodie”
• canola oil