A reservoir that had built up in the tunnel -- a foul stew of PCB's, solvents and oils that had seeped through the porous shale bedrock from the General Electric capacitor factory just up the riverbank -- surged into the Hudson.
Discarded furniture gets all the attention when it comes to street flooding, but most of the crud clogging up the city's storm drains is a foul stew of things such as accumulated leaves, Doritos bags, cigarette butts, plastic water bottles, etc.
A buffet breakfast — fresh fruit and omelets, as well as traditional Arabic cuisine like foul, a bean stew — was being served in the open-air restaurant.
The menu ranges from French toast (22 dirhams) to savory manakish (warm flatbread rolled in spices and sesame seeds; 10 dirhams) and a dish called foul (mashed beans stewed with tomato, garlic and olive oil; 20 dirhams).
— Jeff Gordinier Granta: The journalist Annia Ciezadlo on "the holy trinity of Beirut street food: the farran, or baker; the lahham, or butcher; and the fawwal, or maker of foul, which is stewed chickpeas and fava beans".
The black GIs had to bunk in the ship's windowless, foul-smelling hold, stewing in the "stench cooked up by the sweat, the farts and the vomit of 200 men," he recalled in the memoir.
He stayed in Koreatown, and one snowy day went out searching for a pot of kimchi-jjigae, a spicy stew that suited the foul weather.
The moments of reflection came in the image of LeBron James awkwardly shooting a free throw with his left hand and admitting to nagging pain in his right elbow, Dwight Howard sitting, stewing and eventually being fined because of his foul trouble, and Kevin Garnett losing his composure and drawing a one-game suspension.
Janice's father comes home in a foul mood one day and tosses the family's supper (a pot of stew) into the garden.
Thankfully, there was plenty to choose from as my friends led me through the line, introducing me to dishes I had never tried before: a wonderful chicken stew with cream and walnuts, a pastry covered with mincemeat, onions and nuts, and foul — broad beans and lentils mashed together with lemon, olive oil and cumin.
"Tinned meat was generally foul," Colquhoun writes, "but it was cheap and it came in handy for unexpected guests, titivated into soups, stews and rissoles".
