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.
Around the corner is the sushi and sashimi with fresh-tasting salmon, a serviceable tuna roll, hard slabs of yellowtail, a watery tuna salad and other sushi, and a perfectly done seaweed salad.
Hard slabs form on lee slopes where winds are over 30 mph / 48.2 km/h and the slab turns as hard as concrete.
When you got to the middle of the bar, you bumped up against a hard slab of nearly frozen dark chocolate, clumped around the wooden stick.
Artisans had apparently heated fine-grained alluvial silt to melting temperatures, then slowly cooled it to produce rock-hard slab resembling a type of volcanic rock called basalt.
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.
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.
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.
