Word: platter
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...Ironically, the perceived sterility only goes so far. The dining experience is actually rather unclean by our ethnocentric Western standards; there are neither napkins nor silverware for the patrons, and with two of our guests affected with mysterious sniffles, your reviewers were somewhat uneasy about picking at a communal platter with pieces of injera--spongy, sour, pancake-like bread...
...when they gave Asmara its award for excellence in "spicy meat dishes," those critics must have liked their spices dull. From the vegetarian section, we chose a lentil mush, which didn't taste much different from the other mush they slopped down for free in the center of our platter. Not to say that that was a bad thing; although a bit bland, both of them were entirely unoffensive, until one of our guests stopped using the bread and started picking at it with his fingers. All of us took that habit up eventually, because the bread was so sour...
...barbecued sausage, shrimp and pork, drenched in a "Bad Mood" sauce. Although the sauce was recommended as spicier and better than the "Good Mood" alternative, it was sweet enough to put on pancakes. The bad mood came more from the inclusion of a slice of white bread on the platter, an impardonable sin when the chef could have topped it off with cornbread instead...
Hanging over the surface of each platter is a tiny metal head which reads and writes data on the disk, much like the mechanism used in a tape recorder. During normal operations, the head never comes into direct contact with the platter's surface...
...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...