overboiled

Least Favorite Kind of Food: Pre-made sandwiches, gummy ice cream, overboiled eggs.

PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Rachael” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

Storm tried for another bite of the overboiled potatoes, then set down her fork in defeat.

The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

Offshore, the "vog" of the furry sky gave the motionless sea the overboiled appearance of reheated soup, and in places the ocean was as scummy and opaque as tepid bath water.

Beard 2010

She was like a great white, soggy overboiled cabbage.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

I wanted to sit in the white plastic chair by the driveway and admire the overboiled potato of the moon, but I knew that the basin of the chair would be filled with water.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

I wanted to sit in the white plastic chair by the driveway and admire the overboiled potato of the moon, but I knew that the basin of the chair would be filled with water.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

The ingredients in this overboiled cinematic stew include the Dude's Vietnam-vet bowling buddy (John Goodman), the Big's performance-artist wife (Julianne Moore) and a cowboy-philosopher (Sam Elliott), whose tumbleweed tones provide the insufferably unfunny voice-over narration.

All-Purpose Parody 2008

If I'd been the only hapless soul to go for the sucking pig, I'd have spent the whole dinner manfully making my way through something that looked and tasted like overboiled breast of Bernard Manning.

Archive 2008-01-01 juliette 2008

If I'd been the only hapless soul to go for the sucking pig, I'd have spent the whole dinner manfully making my way through something that looked and tasted like overboiled breast of Bernard Manning.

Sweeney Todd rules juliette 2008

Well, surely we do not wish the pillars of our community to turn into overboiled spaghetini at the first flash of goofballiness in the first degree.

Jamie Malanowski: Moon Over Suburbia 2008