"cheeseburger slider"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/22/2012 09:39 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>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

Did the judges also have the criterion of "size" that some here have
asserted?  "That's not a slider, it's a burger -- it's too big (to
slide down one's throat)".

Joel

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