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Chesapeake Bay Sliders

Posted by Michael Stern , November 06, 2009 07:03

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Only White Castle used to actually call its hamburgers sliders, spelling the word slyder, but now you can find sliders on menus everywhere, and the term doesn’t necessarily refer to a wafer-thin hamburger. Slider has come to mean just about any mini-sandwich on a downsized burger bun. At The Cove in Crisfield, Maryland, you can get a triple-slider plate that includes a fried crab cake, a cheeseburger, and a broiled crab cake. The last is the best of the lot – extraordinarily creamy – but there is undeniable pleasure in crunching through the crust of the fried one. The burger is fine, but as the image on Crisfield’s water tower suggests, crab is what’s for dinner in this town.

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11/6/2009 9:40:01 AM #

I just saw crabcake sliders on a menu for the first time a few days ago, at the BWI airport location of O'Brycki's.

buffetbuster |

11/6/2009 9:19:35 PM #

Wow, I can't believe my hometown made Roadfood! Crisfield once had a number of quirky downhome restaurants. Unfortunately, the condo boom in the earlier part of this decade shuttered most of them; today the condos are half empty.

An even better Roadfood place in Crisfield, Gordon's Confectionery, is just a couple blocks away from The Cove. They have hand-mixed cherry and vanilla Cokes, sodas with shots of ammonia, grilled hot dogs, hand-dipped ice cream and scrapple "served 10 different ways" (though to be fair, I've only ever counted nine). They're a hangout for local watermen, and their official opening time is "quarter to four-ish" a.m. Many swear by their coffee, which for years made with rainwater until the health department stepped in. Occassionally they have "trial" dishes, as well--I remember a pork chop sub at one point.

Gordon's is famous as the supposed birthplace of the chocolate zip, a concoction of milk, chocolate syrup and crushed ice. Also of note is the "dead box," an old cigar box in which photos of regulars are placed once they pass on. Of course, there is the occasional time when someone is placed in the "dead box" prematurely. When that happens, they also have a "live box" to switch the photo to until it's needed! The place was opened in 1924, and it hasn't exactly been cleaned since then... but it's a must-stop restaurant on Maryland's Eastern Shore, nonetheless.

While there, check out Charlie Adams Corner, right next to the restaurant (it's marked with a street sign). Its namesake sold copies of the local paper at that corner every week for 65 years, starting around the time of his fifth birthday! When he turned 70 a couple years ago, his doctor told him he had to quit.

Jason |

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