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A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser radio show today. He's covering the upcoming British Open. He was mentioning things he does, and does not, like about the food available for the reporters and mentioned "sliders". I got the impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?

He was also talking about some place nearby where the Vikings landed in 411. He made some rather amusing comments about the British just making up dates when things happened and if the Vikings had signed some sort of visitor's register or something. -- Tony Cooper aka: (Email Removed) Provider of Jots, Tittles, and Oy!s

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[nq:1]A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser radio show today. He's covering the upcoming British Open. He ... available for the reporters and mentioned "sliders". I got the impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?[/nq]
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[nq:1]He was also talking about some place nearby where the Vikings landed in 411. He made some rather amusing comments about the British just making up dates when things happened and if the Vikings had signed some sort of visitor's register or something.[/nq]
Aha, so even back in the 5th century, pranksters were writing daft things in visitor's books.

Hengist to Horsa: "Hey, under 'Nationality', let's put 'Viking' and see what they say when they turn up a few centuries from now."

MM

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[nq:1]A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser radio show today. He's covering the upcoming British Open. He ... available for the reporters and mentioned "sliders". I got the impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?[/nq]
In US Navy slang, all hamburgers are sliders, not just small ones. But these are the same people who call hot dogs "rollers". You probably don't want to know what they call soft-serve ice cream.

Mary

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[nq:2]A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser ... impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?[/nq]
[nq:1]In US Navy slang, all hamburgers are sliders, not just small ones.[/nq]
Are you sure it isn't NASA slang, which I believe you're even more familiar with? I ask because I've long been aware of the important connection between White Castle and the space program.

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[nq:1]A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser radio show today. He's covering the upcoming British Open. He ... available for the reporters and mentioned "sliders". I got the impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?[/nq]
"Slyders" is a trademark of White Castle.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2m32ea.2.5

In the Southern US, Krystal is another chain with similar steamed mushy mini-hamburgers, though without all the tasty onions that White Castle puts on their "prepared sandwiches for consumption on or off premises".

Consider also "Windy City Slyders", an abandoned trademark of the Chicago Hamburger Co.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=2m32ea.2.9

Their tradmark "Sneezy Slyder" is also abandoned; There is a restaurant called "Chicago Hamburger Co." in Phoenix that uses (and claims as registered*) "Windy City Sliders" but they may not be directly related.

* The trademark does not show up in the USPTO database. What would the consequences be to claiming a product name as a registered trademark without actually filing for the protection, or ignoring the refusal to grant protection?

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[nq:2]I got the impression they were like small hamburgers. Anyone heard of them?[/nq]
[nq:1]In US Navy slang, all hamburgers are sliders, not just small ones.[/nq]
I expect that is a migration of use. When in Chicago, I heard the term used exclusively and omnipresently to refer to the special poisons available at White Castle.

To answer another question, these restaurants do not exist West of... the Mississippi? In recent years six-packs of the little boogers have been available in the frozen section of supermarkets here on the Left Coast-- they're good but it's not really the same.

The slider is a very small hamburger, with a square bun and a square preformed patty. The patty has a few delicate holes punched which must serve some mystical purpose. Rumour has it that the special taste(?) is partly due to some inclusion of liver. A freshly delivered bag of sliders is not only supremely greasy-- it exudes a special greasy smell that will infect your car and linger, almost exactly but not quite like cigarettes.

Thus, whatever the origin of the word, the continued use of "sliders" to refer to these hamburgers is easy to understand-- they are so greasy that they proceed down the alimentary canal almost on their own initiative.

Among the junk-food cognescenti, sliders have a unique standing, being considered the lowest of the lows, yet somehow also perhaps the greatest of the greats. At a minimum, White Castle is not a true sibling in the larger fast-food family of McD's, Burger King, et cetera. It has a truly separate ancestral soul, at once decadent and glorious.

Eden

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[nq:1]He was also talking about some place nearby where the Vikings landed in 411. He made some rather amusing comments about the British just making up dates when things happened and if the Vikings had signed some sort of visitor's register or something.[/nq]
That's just history-envy on the reporter's part. Just because things in Europe can be accurately dated going back several thousand years is no reason to get snippy about it.

(e.g. Battle of Hastings, 14th October 1066. Historians can probably tell you the times of day it started and finished at, too. 18th March 37AD, Gaius Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome. 13th January 86BC Marius (consul) dies... etc.)

I can just imagine a bunch of hairy Norsemen standing around a visitor's book, though: "Weather horrid, monastery building lovely. Monks could be more welcoming though. What no gift shop?"

Jac

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[nq:1]Tony Cooper wibbled[/nq]
[nq:2]He was also talking about some place nearby where the ... Vikings had signed some sort of visitor's register or something.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's just history-envy on the reporter's part. Just because things in Europe can be accurately dated going back several thousand ... a visitor's book, though: "Weather horrid, monastery building lovely. Monks could be more welcoming though. What no gift shop?" Jac[/nq]
An Art Historian has just used astronomy software to establish the exact date and time of one of Van Gogh's paintings. -- John Dean Oxford De-frag to reply

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[nq:1]A golf reporter was a guest on the Tony Kornheiser radio show today. He's covering the upcoming British Open. He ... in one of Jane and Michael Stern's books. (Or the "Road Food" column of, hmm, Gourmet magazine? Something like that.)[/nq]
A slider is a small hamburger, cooked in grease (preferably never changed since the restaurant opened). It gets its name from the fact that, being small and greasy, you don't have to chew it. It just slides down your throat.

And slider eating contests are common. Disliking sliders, I have never participated in one.

Jon Miller

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[nq:1]The slider is a very small hamburger, with a square bun and a square preformed patty. The patty has a few delicate holes punched which must serve some mystical purpose.[/nq]
The holes are crucial to the cooking process.

From : "But just what is the secret to the White Castle hamburger? Each patty has five magical holes cut into it. The burgers are grilled on a bed of onions, with the bottom bun on top, allowing the sweet sweet beef grease to soak through the holes in the patty. This forms a nice layer of fat slime between the bottom bun and the hamburger patty. Thanks to the grease, the burgers will slide right down your throat without much effort on your part, hence the term "Slider.""

: "The famous five holes bored into each burger was billed in 1951 as an innovation to cook the meat faster - in less than a minute - while allowing more of the oniony steam to permeate the bun. (Still leaving plenty for your clothes and hair.)"

obAUE: A bit of a number mismatch: "...holes... was billed..."

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[nq:1]Tony Cooper wibbled[/nq]
[nq:2]He was also talking about some place nearby where the ... Vikings had signed some sort of visitor's register or something.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's just history-envy on the reporter's part. Just because things in Europe can be accurately dated going back several thousand ... and finished at, too. 18th March 37AD, Gaius Caligula becomes Emperor of Rome. 13th January 86BC Marius (consul) dies... etc.)[/nq]
On soc.history.medieval there is a recurring discussion about when the battle ended. This only recurs - as far as I can tell - because a certain well-known poster to that newsgroup (and former poster to this newsgroup) refuses to accept that, in Sussex, in October, it gets dark at 6.

Fran

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