whereas food is subject to gravity and lateral forces

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Well, the passenger is also affected by those forces (gravity and lateral forces) but the seat belt holds them in.
But yes, spilling food in a car is awful. I had once made something called “Dirt Dessert” and it tipped over when I made a stop. That car smelled like Oreos and chocolate pudding for months.
Many years ago when they came out with the seat belt interlocks that made a buckled up seat belt necessary to start the car we had a customer come in and requested it be disconnected because there was no way he wanted to buckle in the next frozen turkey he bought so it could ride on the passenger side ..