"cheeseburger slider"

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

I feel compelled to report that 'tuna slider' garners 820,000 ghits. Here's just one (actually sounds pretty good to me...)

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/nadia-g/crispy-tuna-cake-sliders-with-citrus-slaw-recipe/index.html

References the bizarre Nadia G, FWIW

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)


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> From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: "cheeseburger slider"

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> Poster: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> 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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