Talk:Slider (sandwich)/Archive 1

Archive 1

US vs international measurements

A couple of editors have made changes to the article changing measurements to metric from US measurements. I reverted them on the following guidelines set forth in the Manual of style For English variations:

1. The article is written in US English, and per the guidelines it is improper to arbitrarily switch the format without a valid reason.
2. The subject of the article, sliders, is originally an American sandwich created by an American company. Thus US rules apply.
3. The sources are all American, including one from the United States Patent and Trademark office. As the sources are all American and use US units of measurement, US rules apply.

While there is a codicil in the MoS about using the most common units of measurement, it does have exceptions, including the ones I have listed here. Before making changes away from the formatting used in the article, please take the time to discuss it here. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Why is it called a slider?

I only heard of sliders recently and time elapsed before I found out what they actually were. While trying to imagine why they are so called, I wondered if it is because they are so small that they just "slide down your throat". I hoped this article would throw light on the derivation of the term, so if anyone who knows the answer would add it to the article, that would be a benefit. — O'Dea (talk) 16:07, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

I am from the Chicagoland area (White Castle territory) and I can offer this personal anecdote. We called them sliders because they were so greasy that they slide right through you. Actually ordering them as 'sliders' was considered a minor Beavis and Butthead sort of prank. Rather than get upset they owned the term and it became a nickname. I first heard this term for them in the late 70's. I can't offer anything concrete or authoritative, but hopefully this may help lead someone to a documentable origin of the term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.18.102.140 (talk) 10:00, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm from the St. Paul / Minneapolis area (home of the featured 'White Castle No.8' building), and just as our Chicagoan friend relates, the term 'slider' has been long understood to describe the greasy nature of the White Castle hamburger - "they slide right through you". As a side note, sometime around 1984, a friend and I were promptly kicked-out of a White Castle restaurant, for attempting to order "three sliders with vinyl (cheese) and a bag of nails (french fries)". So the term has been in use at least since that time, in the TC Metro area. As for WC's trademarking of the silly 'Slyder' spelling, my how times have changed.. Drlegendre (talk) 01:40, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

When did the term gain its current prominent usage?

This is a term I first saw in October 2013, on a visit to the US (after not visited for a couple of years or so). Many of the restaurants I visited had sliders on the menu. It seems to have emerged into open view quite recently. What sort of usage history does it have; when did it start being used with its current intensity? Is there some popular cultural event that prompted the slider boom? Can someone elaborate? Is this a passing buzzword or has it come to stay? Jussi Karlgren (talk) 16:45, 6 November 2013 (UTC) 16:45, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

It's also worth noting that it's almost completely unknown in other English-speaking countries. Turkeyphan^t 18:38, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

And where: is it a regional thing, like sub/hoagie/grinder/poboy? When I woke up this morning I had no idea what the word even meant, and I'm the sort of person who distinguishes between "jelly" and "jam". A google search turns up nothing useful, because Google doesn't parse sentences and distinguish between meanings of a term by context, so there's a flood of irrelevant hits. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 14:38, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

By all appearances, it is a Midwestern regional term, and may in fact be inspired directly by the original White Castle hamburger. White Castle cooks their burgers in a fairly novel way. First, a quantity of re-hydrated onions & water are spread on the heated grill, and then topped with a layer of square patties. Next the buns are split in half, with the bottoms placed upside-down on top of the patties, and finally the tops placed right side up atop the bottoms. In this way, the burger meat is primarily cooked by the trapped steam, with the bun bottom absorbing a significant amount of grease from the burger and the onion-flavored steam. To finish off, the burger and bottom bun are removed from the grill, flipped over, garnished with two slices of dill pickle, and the top bun is added. The final sandwich is steaming, hot and quite greasy - not to mention utterly delicious. Drlegendre (talk) 01:57, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Image

I don't trust the source for the image. Judging by the scale of other object, they look like regular-sized burgers. Turkeyphan^t 18:40, 11 October 2014 (UTC)