"cheeseburger slider"

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 21, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here in PA, a "slider" is _a tiny hamburger_, perhaps even smaller than
>> a White Castle hamburger, but *far* less delicious.
>
> All right, then:
>
> "a tiny _burger_"
>
 I don't know.  Does a lobster roll (on mini-bun) count as a tiny burger?  Or a tuna tartare slider?   Not burgery enough for my threshold; the bun does not the burger make, tiny or otherwise.  Moral:  Size matters, but if it ain't the meat, it's the ocean, all bets are off.

LH

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