"cheeseburger slider"

[Herb Stahlke]

IIRC, the cable food shows--I don't remember whether it was Next X Star or
something else on Food Network or travel--contestants have competed in
preparing sliders.  One of the reasons why some sliders were declared not
sliders by judges was the degree to which the contents deviated from patty
form.  The contents of the patty mattered less.

FWIW

Herb


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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