Less so were the falafel patties, stamped by machine; the stuffed grape leaves, which looked and tasted manufactured; the feta cheese dip, marred by hard slabs of out-of-season tomato; and stuffed cabbage leaves, which were cold and slightly slippery.
Hard slabs form on lee slopes where winds are over 30 mph / 48.2 km/h and the slab turns as hard as concrete.
It could not be otherwise, with large, heavily muscled athletes careening around an enclosed rink as they fight for a bone-hard slab of rubber travelling at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour.
The point of a hard, unyielding slab of chocolate called ganache brownie was unclear, and except for the taste of salt, the cheesecake was bland.
They are sending hard drugs – slab and slide, which destroy the lives of young urban trolls – to the cities by barge and boat.
As I write this over fourteen years later, I still feel amazed that he didn't personally walk me next door to that imaging center and insist on having them flatten my ailing breast like a pancake on that little hard plastic slab to find the rampant cancer rather than giving those vicious cells free access to my body for another month.
Once it turns to slush and freezes into a rock-hard grey slab of death, or gets deep enough to go over your shoes and make your socks wet, or stops me from doing anything I want to do, I'm done with the wonder).
In the past couple of weeks, as part of my duties as deputy letters editor, I have received requests for, among other things, air coolers, conference tables, fruit presses, saw horses, boxing gloves, T-shirts, bibles (hard cover), slabs, dock doors, hockey sticks, conveyor belts, fork spreaders, flyers, sod cutters, soil grapples, sewage grinders and pedicure machines.
They turned that into a cardboard mock-up that they then used as a prototype to create hundreds of hard plastic slabs that they used to get the concept in place.
But, he said, he's had "a hard time selling Slab in the neighborhood, because people have been so accustomed to viewing night clubs as being full of whatever the L.A. version of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd is".
