Ah, true. The one character I had the issue on a week or so ago was a level 14-15 (can't remember exactly) on the day of ascension, which makes the other locations potentially important. Not relevant if still in HC though.
If display case isn't able to be preferenced on, it's irrelevant, as you say. Morning posts are always dangerous, as they come out before caffeine brings the synapses to their partially working state. I was thinking there was some preference that would make it checked for outfits and the like, but maybe that was the post where it was shot down horrifically as being counter-logical.
Yes, as you said, if inventory and closet are both refreshed with the inv, that should be all that matters for the HC player. For SC/post-NS, refreshing stash and those may matter, but in this case, the inv should have fixed it.
I'm curious though why the long pork crafted food seems to cause this. Next time it comes up for me, I'll need to try to watch more closely, and hopefully I'll be able to report the issue instead of forgetting and just restarting the script repeatedly or remembering the issue after it's run off my entire pre-repeat logs...