Unwashed and full of sand and grit, meat is gristly, tough and eaten with the hide still attached.
A good small joint is better than a mass of gristly stewing steak.
She said that it tasted of bleach and was made tough and gristly by the addition of valves made from something like dried pasta.
The peridium is double-layered: the outer layer, which occasionally features lime tubercles, is rough, gristly, wrinkled and shiny to faint, and the membranous inner layer is iridescent.
