The typical surfboard is a slab of petroleum-spawned polyurethane slathered in layers of toxic polyester resin.
Poached eggs crown a halved, housemade biscuit with a slab of Hudson Valley foie gras.
"I've had a slab of bacon in the freezer for I don't know how long, " Forgione says.
Four years ago it took 20 weeks for a slab of silicon to become a finished processor.
Why there is this glee to find a tiny thing wrong with what is essentially a slab of technological magic?
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Josh Brolin, a slab of hair lying low across his forehead, gives White a brick-headed, baffled manner, a tormented neediness.
In reality, the phone was, of course, not a phone at all, but a slab of glass surrounded by a plastic frame.
Police said a slab of snow and ice was thought to have triggered the avalanche but did not know what had dislodged it.
About three hours in, we got a slab of lamb ribs cooked with honey and a side of potatoes with oregano, olive oil and lemon juice.
Working on their hands and knees, scientists soon traced the pieces back up the hilltop to a slab of red siltstone, where they so far have found 200 bones mingled with crushed eggshells.
To make maggot cheese you start with a slab of local sheep cheese, pecorino sardo, but then let it go beyond normal fermentation to a stage most would consider infested decomposition (because, well, it is).
They picked up critters from as deep as 6km, and they did so using both typical trawling nets and a special box that was designed to scoop up a slab of ocean floor along with a slice of undisturbed water from immediately above it.
Rolland can trap anything - wolves are the biggest challenge, and he took 23 of those alive last winter - but today he is looking for bears. he drives out to a popular spot where bears congregate. he has brought a bait box with him, from which he pulls out, rather unexpectedly, a slab of cake.
It is that uniquely human trait which seeks to express something that has never been expressed before, whether it is a sculptor seeing a slab of granite as a future statue, a scientist envisioning how a new chemical interaction might cure disease, or an entrepreneur dreaming of a new product in the hands of grateful customers.
The facility, which is called a "gas governor" and consists of a large slab of concrete, a flue pipe and a control box, is intended to regulate gas supply in the area.
Provoleta, a round slab of fried cheese, makes for a savory sort of pancake, and a salad of papaya, pineapple, and mango, tossed with toasted coconut flakes and creamy goat-milk caramel, is a ticket to the tropics.
Instead of a bottle of water, how about knocking down walls with a frozen slab of beef?
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Neither was as good as my grilled turbot, a big slab of meaty white fish on the bone with sexy black grill marks like a fishnet stocking.
The basic design is the same -- it's a chunky slab of thick, ribbed, soft-touch plastic and rubber, with a sizable chrome screw holding the backplate in place.
On the conference table--a waist-high slab of plywood propped on a pair of sawhorses--are 50 years' worth of Ford truck advertisements.
The strategy is to secure a large slab of the global etail market as it evolves.
This was a hard slab of salted, minced and sometimes smoked beef mixed with onions and breadcrumbs.
But who will actually use such a large slab of mobile computing?
The PDJ is a rectangular slab of refreshing creative optimism.
The second floor was divided several big rooms, including a living room with large glass doors that open onto the front lawn, a dining room and an open kitchen centered around an island topped by a thick slab of lapis lazuli.
Relics of Goat Island's convict origins remain, including a seat carved out of stone by Charles Anderson, an inmate who was sentenced to be tied to a particularly large slab of the island for two years.
That's a bit more myth of course, because the Possum was just as capable of recording a daft novelty song or a foot-stomping slab of honky-tonk.
The design featured a wooden frame on top of a concrete-slab foundation, with an exterior covered in gray asbestos shingles. (Steel was in short supply.) The structure violated the Cambridge fire code, but it was granted an exemption because of its temporary status.
Gone is the basement level of the pyramid the heftiest slab a foundation of breads, starches and other carbohydrates.
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