[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by Laurawilcox

Being from Chicago they were a staple when I was a child. Thanks for sharing this. We will look forward to being in line!

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me too - 1st 35 years - SW side, and western 'burbs. If I recall there was a very nice recipe to make stuffing with sliders.
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[bilcon]

White Castle burgers were never called sliders. They were burgers and when I was a kid growing up on LI, NY they were 14cents. The Daily News had an occasional coupon 5 burgers for .24. Belly Bombs was a name we sometimes called them. They were great after partying at night and stopping for 10 or more. They also had great coffee. The frozen ones they sell in the supermarkets just don't do it. The owner would not open any new ones unless the area had sewerage treatment plants. No cesspools. There were still some on LI when I left. Yo BELLY BOMBS!

[rmd2]

The one I wish we would get is LEDO's pizza. It started not too far from the University of Maryland and there are quite a few franchises. There is one in Orlando but I wish it was here. I still remember seeing the Governor of Maryland standing in line, waiting to get into Ledo's just like the rest of us. The pizza was just out-of-this-world good!!

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by bilcon

White Castle burgers were never called sliders.

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Slider (sandwich) - Wikipedia

History "Slider" is believed to have been first used to describe the onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants. The term has since been appropriated by other restaurants, usually to describe a small hamburger, but sometimes used to describe any small sandwich made with a slider roll. White Castle later trademarked the spelling variant "Slyder" and used it between 1985 and 2009


The History of Sliders

The short story here is that Sliders were first made by a hamburger chain called White Castle. They were nicknamed Sliders and later on they copyrighted the name Slyders.

White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas. Walter A. Anderson partnered with cook Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram to make White Castle into a chain of restaurants and market

White Castle. At the time, Americans were hesitant to eat ground beef after Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle had publicized the poor sanitation practices of the meat packing industry. The founders set out to change the public's perception of the cleanliness of the industry.

They were very small burgers that were sold at five cents a piece until the 1940s, and remained at ten cents for years thereafter while growing smaller. For several years, when the original burgers sold for five cents, White Castle periodically ran promotional ads in local newspapers which contained coupons offering five burgers for ten cents, takeout only.

The typical White Castle restaurant architecture features a white exterior with a crenelated tower at one corner to resemble a medieval castle. The Chicago Water Tower, which stands on Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile, is said to be the model for the classic building.

What does the name Sliders have to do with a small hamburger?

There is considerable evidence that “slider” was a term used for a hamburger in the United States Navy, perhaps as early as the 1940s or 1950s. The term “slider” meant a greasy burger that slid in easily. A “slider with a lid” was a cheeseburger.

[Chi-Town]

Put me down for a sack of sliders.