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Default What makes a 'slider' a 'slider'?

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 3:30:05 AM UTC-5, tert in seattle wrote:

> I never went there much but there was this one time that I ordered
> sliders at a White Castle in Chicago (this would have been in the
> late '80s) and the cashier told me "you are going to have to call
> them by their correct name" which didn't make any sense to me --
> I thought they were called sliders! She really would not take my
> order until I called them hamburgers. TF?


Good thing you didn't order a fish sandwich by its alternative name:
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