I don’t think I have been to a White Castle in 15 maybe 20 years. There is one near my house, but it is tucked in an awkward place that I never actually go down.
But today there was an accident on the street that forced me to go down that street. I thought, ok, no prob. I’ll pop in to the drive through and get a half a dozen sliders and an onion ring in 5 minutes, That’s how it works. Then I’ll get back to home.
But no. There was nothing recognizable on the menu as a basic slider, and onion rings don’t seem to exist. And the people working the order window had no idea what I was talking about.
So now I have spent 22 dollars(and over half an hour)on two sliders and over a pound of breaded onion… “slabs”?
Weird. I’m nowhere near a White Castle but just pulled up their website, chose one in the Bronx and started a web order. Original sliders with ketchup were definitely available, for $1.19 each.
I don’t go to White Castle often, but at least at the ones here in Chicago, while they’ve added to their menu over the years, the basic sliders are still absolutely a thing. Sliders even have their own section on the White Castle online menu.
@wolfman: Are you sure that that restaurant is still a White Castle?
Just another voice saying that they definitely sell classic sliders still. I got a sheet of coupons for them recently. I couldn’t speak for their onion rings since I believe they’re the reconstituted onion goop type of ring and so I always opt for fries.
Y’know, I haven’t tried White Castle since I last lived in Michigan. Which was in 1980. Since that time I have been in California, land of In-N-Out, but no White Castles at all.
As a kid I hated what seemed to me to be the vaguely liver-flavored WC sliders. I mean I had to practically be forced to go there and this despite, like most kids, generally loving salty, greasy, heavily-engineered fast food. So for decades, no big loss.
But now that I’m an adult with a rather different palate I sorta wonder if I would like them. I mean I crave fast food less and eat it a lot less these days, but I still very occasionally will spring for salty, greasy, heavily-engineered junk calories .
But now that I want to try them again decades later, I can’t. It’s just not worth the drive to Nevada.
Man I haven’t had White Castle in a minute, but back in the day, a sack of ten just hit that sweet spot after a night at the bar. Bonus: they smelled the same going out at they did going in!
Their home page with the very tricky domain name of whitecastle.com
has a splash creen advertising cheese sliders. That look exactly like the sliders of your w a smidgen of orange cheese-like substance draped over the “meat”.
One of my pals who grew up with White Castle used to say “They’re better after midnight or under thirty”. Looking at the timing of @wolfman’s post, and knowing a bit of their biography, I think he failed both those qualifiers.
I conclude the OP was wasted or dreaming. Or fell for a look-a-like.
Perhaps you mistakenly went to a White Tower, which is a White Castle knock-off. Some look just like a White Castle or maybe you found a similar knock-off. If so, maybe they go out of thier way to not call them sliders.
As the Wiki article notes, the last White Tower closed its doors in 2022. It’s entirely possible though that what @wolfman visited was a former White Castle location that went out of business and was sold to another owner who kept the facade and decor. Somewhat relatedly, there’s a subreddit dedicated to former Pizza Huts that have been repurposed while maintaining that recognizable 80’s-90’s roof design.
They closed most of the ones near me (as well as Sonic, Skyline Chili and a bunch of other places that seemed to be ubiquitous when I moved into this area), but there’s one about 15 minutes away and the last time I went there not only did they have all the original stuff but they had a lot more types of sliders, breakfasts, more sides. I pulled up the app/web and looks like they still have all the OG stuff. And, fast food prices are out of control. I rarely eat it at all, and if I do I tend to get an “entre” with the most protein per dollar and skip all the empty sugar drinks and sad fries, but I’m sure I could get some sliders and onion rings for well under twenty bucks.
Do you mean they didn’t know what a slider is? Or that they didn’t know what onion rings are? Or do you just mean they told you sliders and onion rings aren’t on the menu?
Lord, your whole BODY would smell like them the next day. Even after the shower.
The only other drunk foods that comes close for future consequences is either the Buffalo Wing shits the day after or when your fingers are stained yellow for days from a great late night curry.
I will say that the drive-through staff at my local White Castle are the slowest and least “with it” bunch out of any drive through in the area. Always a long process to get even a basic order. If I had to guess at any bunch who had no idea what’s on their menu, the White Castle crew would top the list.
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