Sliders?
I hope I’m not the only person to find the current fad among mid-range restaraunt chains (like Friday’s and Applebees) of calling mini burgers “sliders” just a little bizarre. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but growing up in northern Kentucky, sliders were a derogatory term for White Castle hamburgers, so named because of their unpleasant tendency to slide straight through one’s digestive tract. I’m really not sure what the marketing guys at these much less intestinally disruptive restaraunts are thinking with this line of advertising. Like I said, maybe it’s a regional thing, but still, “sliders” just doesn’t really sound like something I’d want to order for dinner anywhere reputable.
Anyway yeah, what’s up with that?
Yeah, I don’t understand it either. Maybe call them siders instead because they’re kind of a sidedish? Whatever you call them, the ones at Applebee’s were tasty! (Moreso than I expected.)
Comment by Deg on June 24, 2009 at 8:28 am
Wait, I thought Sliders was the official White Castle term for the burger? Never considered it to be an intentionally derogatory name, although I have heard the meaning you described before.
Now you’ve got me craving some Krystal though, since that’s the closest thing to White Castle we have in the south-east.
Comment by vid on June 29, 2009 at 7:58 am