The distressing experience was still fresh enough for the article to produce potent sympathetic vibrations.
Pineapple isn't too my taste either – too sweet – but otherwise I'm keen to pack in as many different textures and flavours as possible, with the exception of beansprouts, which, though pleasingly crunchy, don't taste fresh enough for my liking.
But even after two particularly grueling days in the Alps, including an afternoon of suffering the switchbacks of L'Alpe d'Huez, Schleck still seemed confident that his legs would be fresh enough for him to hold his lead.
The matriarch consults the cook about whether the salmon is fresh enough for dinner, and the spinster daughter sends the maids upstairs carrying piles of chamber pots for the guest rooms.
Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi.
The poulpe grillé (octopus, with a spoonful of baba ghanoush, over a tomato and chickpea panisse) does not taste fresh enough for its £9.50; but, much worse, the "Chop-Chop" salad never becomes more than the sum of its parts, even after the unnecessary addition of half a lobster at £15.
