# White castle hamburgers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-castle-hamburgers/177723>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-castle-hamburgers/177723 "2003-05-27T07:27:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-castle-hamburgers/177723/75 "2022-07-18T14:19:59Z")

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I thought I recalled contributing to this thread back in the old days. Turns out I was wrong. There is another thread of similar vintage in IMHO with the exact same title. I’d contributed there, not here.

For your reading (but probably not reviving) pleasure:

> [@White Castle Hamburgers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-castle-hamburgers/228443):
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> I have yet to meet a person who is ambivalent about [White Castle](http://www.whitecastle.com) burgers. Everyone I’ve met either loves them or hates them. For those who don’t know, White Castle is a hamburger chain found mostly in the Midwestern U.S. At least, that’s the theory. Apparently in Ohio and Indiana they’re in every dipshit little town, but in Illinois they’re only in major metro areas (such as Chicago and suburban St. Louis). Grrrr! :mad: The burgers are about one inch square and are boiled, for lack of a bette…

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