Kelly Asbury

The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.

American Director

Sean Bean

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!

English Actor

Guy Fieri

American Businessman

Helps describe the consistency of food or other materials, not just rubber itself.

Texture Descriptions

Often implies that something has an unexpectedly or unpleasantly firm texture.

Negative Connotation

It's most commonly used when talking about food that's overcooked or stale.

Specific Context

When referring to meat or seafood, 'rubbery' suggests low quality or overcooking.

Indication of Quality

Creates a surprising divergence from what's expected, especially with foods that are normally tender.

Expectation Conflict

Can indicate that the cooking method needs to be changed to improve texture.

Cooking Techniques

 while the climbers had been up on the tapue bruce wasn't just sitting around down in the jungle he'd set up a field station and worked with the akawaya to collect any living creatures they could find he led mark and foucault over to a little table where there was a brown rubbery frog in a metal tray

First Ascent of a Sky...

 black tongue which contains so much melanin which was thought to originally protect the giraffe from the sun of course our skin has melanin in it as well but it's probably just used more to make the tongue more rubbery if you like the melon in itself will

Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...

 out of necessity to kill the critters-- others because it makes it better. But it's almost never about the freshest fish. Fresh fish is right out of the water. It's still in rigor. And it's often rubbery and unpleasant

Anthony Bourdain and...

 then throwing the stuff into a boiling cauldron and that would be our dinner you know let's like rubbery chunk of meat in a you know pretty unappetizing broth and as we penetrate deeper into this realm

The Unconquered:...

 rubbery egg cases that other features find poisonous within three weeks the babies are ready to hatch out they are already able to change color but they're not quite so good at summer

Colour Changing Squid...

 front foot and three on each rear foot number five tapirs have a rubbery highly flexible nose perfect for eating leaves fruit and aquatic vegetation which they

What in the World is a...

 the whiter wolf is the old grandmother of the pack her teeth aren't strong enough to chew through the tough rubbery hide as this younger wolf is starting to

Wolves Save Their...

 to the female after the eggs have been fertilized they're deposited in tough rubbery egg cases that other pitchers find poisons

Squids Breeding in Kelp...

 but she Farkas have thick rubbery footpaths and spring-like legs beckoned leap nine metres in a single bound

Rubbery