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I had never heard the term "Slider" applied to a food until just a few years ago.

Long before I ever heard the term elsewhere, i heard it in the Navy. But as regular burgers, not small ones. Burgers were sliders, hot dogs were rollers. Which makes sense if you've served shipboard.

Being born and raised in the Chicago area, I've eaten a ton of White Castles. Especially popular after a late night at the bar. Stop by the drive through at 2 am (Which was always lined up 8 or 10 cars) and get 6 and maybe some fires to munch on driving home. The term "Sliders" I always thought referred to the digestive path they rapidly take after eating. Be close to a crapper unless your system is used to them. White Castle should have trade-marked that moniker. Now anyone who makes a somewhat small sandwich calls them sliders.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I was curious about the term “slider”. I’d always assumed that it had something to do with the uncommon method of cooking the meat patties (steamed with onion). But according to Wikipedia, the name comes from the “slider roll” (bun).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slider_(sandwich)

Then I tried, with no success, to find a definition for “slider roll”. Maybe a pre-sliced roll?

Way back when White Castle Burgers cost five cents apiece, they got the name "sliders" due to their colon cleansing after effects the next morning.
Eat enough of those things and the porcelain throne was guaranteed to be in use the next morning.
50 years ago this was common knowledge, at least in the Chicago area.

I suspect Wikipedia is either misinformed or are attempting to be politically correct.

NavyGuy, I noticed your post after responding to Pipe Smoker's.
You got it right.
I suspect the combined effect of alcohol and a sack full of these, with the steamed onions acting as a catalyst, is what triggered the next morning mother-load.

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Originally posted by bald1:
I've noticed White Castle sliders in the frozen food section of local groceries.

Has anyone ever tried this stuff? I can't imagine that they'd be anything but pedestrian but who knows....


As an aside the hardest buns to find in my experience are authentic New England lobster roll buns.

Yeah, they're actually pretty decent if you microwave them just right. There's a fine line on them of being undercooked and cold in the middle.....or overcooked where they don't taste quite as good.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:

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Originally posted by bald1:
I've noticed White Castle sliders in the frozen food section of local groceries.

Has anyone ever tried this stuff? I can't imagine that they'd be anything but pedestrian but who knows....


As an aside the hardest buns to find in my experience are authentic New England lobster roll buns.

Yeah, they're actually pretty decent if you microwave them just right. There's a fine line on them of being undercooked and cold in the middle.....or overcooked where they don't taste quite as good.

The frozen ones appear on the supermarket shelves here periodically.
They taste close to the original when Düsseldorf mustard is added but the buns are never quite the same texture as ones steamed over the burger and onions.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:

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As an aside the hardest buns to find in my experience are authentic New England lobster roll buns.

And it's just silly. Split top rolls are so much more logical than those silly side cut rolls at most stores. Plus they have those nice sides you can butter up and grill / toast.
Here's a way to make your own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2R9yCuNDJc

Chef John rocks, but I'm not spending half a day to make buns. Pepperidge Farm makes split top buns, which is the only civilized way to eat a hot dog. Not even sure how I made chili dogs prior to discovering them. Chef Johns do look yummy though and he's never steered me wrong.

Wife has been a Pepperidge Farm distributor for nearly 25 years. I have always been amazed we had the only top split hot dog buns in the store. Now a hard bun to find around here is the black poppy seed buns for making Chicago style hot dogs. I use Pepperidge Farm hoagie buns for that. They have sesame seeds but it works for me plus they are bigger and heartier and stand up much better to all the stuff you put on a Chicago dog.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:

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Originally posted by ScreamingCockatoo:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I had never heard the term "Slider" applied to a food until just a few years ago. We had both White Castle and White Tower places in Detroit when I was a kid, but no one called what they made a "Slider"--we just called them "White Castle".

flashguy

I had never heard the term slider until I worked with a guy from Detroit.
Must be a northern thing.

Or just based on White Castle. Not sure but they have it on their menu. We just called them Krystals.

Possibly relevant is that I was raised in the 1940s and 50s.

flashguy