I thought you might be exaggerating … but according to their web site they’re bragging about this!! Oh the humanity!!
The Slyder® Secret
So what is the secret to that incredible taste? White Castle burgers are steam grilled on a bed of onions, 30 burgers at a time, served hot on a soft, white, steamed bun with a single slice of dill pickle.
To break it down even more, the freshly baked buns are placed on the top of the burgers and onions to absorb the delicious steam grilled flavor. The 2.5" square patty made with USDA inspected 100% beef has 5 evenly spaced holes which allow the steam to completely pervade the burger, enhancing flavor and allowing the patty to cook faster.
I don’t know if any of y’all have Guthries where y’all live, but it’s my FAVORITE fast food. Fried chicken strips, garlic bread, crinkle cut fries, coleslaw, “Secret dipping sauce”. I don’t know what it is about that stuff though. Give it 30 minutes to an hour, and you’re doing the #2 trot to the nearest receptacle.
Could be the special sauce… tastes like a mix of mayo, thousand island, and horseradish. It will clean all the crud off your pennies too! Believe me, there’s nothing scarier than watching a black, tar covered penny turn rosy pink in a matter of minutes, and know that the substance in question is having its way with you alimentary canal!
That said, I don’t care what it does to me, Guthries is the best fried chicken in Tallahassee!
Several people above have stated that they were looking for a White Castle in TEXAS!
Texas is not a place to look for White Castles!
If you’re gonna play in Texas, join Hank Hill.
I used to have some similar fun with Burger King onion rings… Couple of hours later saw the most amusing/repulsive gas to the point of embarrassment.:eek: :o An unsuspecting friend once ordered two at one sitting. A phone call later confirmed a similar result, including change of underwear. Oddly enough, the onion rings don’t affect me as much in recent years.
Possibly a similar phenomenon to that described by other posters?
“You screw up just this much, and you’ll find yourself flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit outta Hong Kong!”
And here I was think it was because of the fact that the sucrose in the potato was caramelizing in the boiling oil that they are dunked in for 3 minutes. Silly me.
And here I was thinking it was because of the fact that the sucrose in the potato was caramelizing in the boiling oil that they are dunked in for 3 minutes. Silly me.
So I’m posting the above, when all of a sudden, I realise I didn’t spell “thinking” out. So since the page is taking its time, I cancel it (hit the little red circle with an X in it on IE), and fix it and hit submit.
Andy’s. It’s a little cheesesteak/cheeseburger chain in North Carolina. I had eaten there for years with no trouble, but I got really sick after the last time I ate there. I think it was food poisoning of some sort; the report from their latest health inspection seems to back that up.
But going back to the main topic…a lot of fried foods have that effect on me too. I can’t even take one bite of something that’s been deep-fried without having to RUN to the restroom 30 minutes later.
There is a place here in San Jose, called “Burger bar” on Monterey that make burgers that are the moral equiv of white castle. I think they also fry their fries in beef suet, which is actually the best “oil” for fries, tastewise, at least.
I was a manager at McD’s for six years and yep, the fries are covered in a thin sugar layer to give them uniform browning. Since it is a negligible amount, it isn’t included in the nutritional info.
I wrote an article a few years ago re: olestra and the food lab at Penn State that was conducting some dietary research with it (prior to its introduction to the market).
I was told by the researchers that they had observed that the intestinal problems (leakage, diarrhea, cramping, etc.) from eating olestra were no worse than those from eating similar amounts of fat. It seems likely that one reason Olestra causes such intestinal distress, then, is that people have a tendency to overeat potato chips when they hear that they’re “no-fat” (such overeating was another phenomenon the PSU studies showed–although the people who binged on olestra-cooked chips STILL wound up consuming less fat and fewer calories than those who ate more common amounts of regular chips).
Thank God I’m not the only one! I’ve stopped eating at BK bevause of this, at least on days I have to be at work the next day. (and the fact that there ‘new fries’ taste like crap!)
