slider/Slyder(R), Gut-bomb

[Dennis R. Preston]

Jim,

Don't think so, but a little bell is going off in the back of my
head. Course I hung around with a lot of Louisville types in the late
50s and cold have been contaminated.

dInIs

On the Kentucky side of the river in the 50s, I recall that we called White
Castle burgers armpits, generally more frequently than sliders.  Did that
carry over to the IN side of the river?

Jim Stalker

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From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
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Subject: Re: slider/Slyder(R), Gut-bomb


>  Kathleen must have been from the greasy rather than greazy part of
>  IN; down south we had White Castles in the 50s, but not as sliders
>  until later; 60's is probably right.
>
>  dInIs (whose current recommendation for an excellent accompaniment to
>  a bag of sliders would be a Puglian Primitivo)
>
>
>  At 12:50 AM 2/13/2004 -0500, Doug Wilson wrote:
>
>
>  The slang term "slider" meaning "[small greasy] hamburger" (White Castle
>  style or similar) was used in the 1960's according to my own recollection.
>  It was not restricted to White Castle in my experience. The folk etymology
>  said that the burger was small and greasy enough that it slid down the
>  throat without the need for active chewing or swallowing ... or something
>  like that. I believe no major company would have advertised "sliders" (nor
>  "gut-bombs") back then.
>
>
>  There is a White Castle on the Black Horse Pike going down the shore in
NJ.
>  Having grown-up in Indiana it was a new experience for me in the early
>  80's. Dad, however, had recollection of the place going back to the
>  mid-40's when he would go down the shore with Pop-Pop and Nana. He recalls
>  them being called sliders back then. And, in his opinion, the reason the
>  little burgers were called such was because they went in - and out - shall
>  we say, without stopping.
>
>  Kathleen E. Miller
>  Research Assistant to William Safire
>  The New York Times
>
>
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,
        Asian and African Languages
Wells Hall A-740
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA
Office: (517) 353-0740
Fax: (517) 432-2736