On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 2:30:05 AM UTC-6, tert in seattle wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
> > On 2/10/2015 10:56 PM, Kalmia wrote:
> >> Is this just a new name for an old food idea?
> >
> > I thought it started with White Castles little burgers,
> > they slid right down.
> >
> > That's the gist of the explanation I got, and at the
> > time I never heard of anyone else selling sliders. Not
> > even White Castle called them that, it was a nickname.
> >
> > nancy
>
> 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?

They rejected the name for years, but then began to embrace it. When
I was a kid, no one ordered "hamburgers" there. If you wanted one, you
ordered a "White Castle." A cheeseburger was called "cheeseburger," and
a fish sandwich was a "fish."

Example:
"Six White castles, extra pickle, three cheeseburgers, two fish, three
fries and three larges oranges for here."

"Oranges" were non-carbonated orange drinks. They don't have oranges
anymore, and over 20 years ago, they changed their fries from regular
thick cut to crinkle cut, reportedly because the crinkle cut ones reduced
oil spatter injuries to employees. The crinkle cut ones are not very good.
The old ones weren't great, but they were better.

--Bryan