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

Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-02-11 3:25 AM, 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?
>>

>
> Are you serious? A cashier at a fast food joint wouldn't serve you until
> you used the right name and she didn't see the back side of you walking
> out the door? How hungry were you?


the power of the powerless is exercised ubiquitously in Chicago

I would steer clear of that fine city if I were you