I agree that Foundation’s responsive table solution is a usability fail. First, on a recent version of an iphone, you don’t see any visual cue that you can independently scroll on the first long cell vs the rest of the cells.
Second, the markup removes the table caption, which serves a purpose for screen readers and accessibility.
The Google solution is intriguing, and I found something similar here: http://codepen.io/colintoh/pen/kbrzL