My White Castle claim to fame…
Remember the Jalapeno Cheeseburger. My parents invented that! (they did a new product development project for White Castle.) I was so proud. That thing was good, too.
I like 'em. Not love, just like. Once in a while I get a craving for a few but only occasionally. They tast pretty good and I’m satisfied with 4 or 5.
One question though, Chicken Rings? What godsforsaken part of the chicken comes in rings?
I’m ambivalent about them. I think White Castle is a silly name, but I like hamburgers.
I’ve never had a White Castle one, so maybe I shouldn’t count.
I’ve had Krystal, and I can see them hitting the spot when you’re in the mood for THEM, but not necessarily when you’re in the mood for burgers. I can be like this with McDonald’s… sometimes I just want McDonald’s, but if I want a good burger, I go to Fuddruckers.
My favorite of all the fast food burgers is Sonic, but we don’t have them in Miami. DAMMIT!
Had them once in Ohio and was greatly anticipating the event, since I’m a burger fanatic. Big shoulder shrug. I thought they were tasteless and totally ordinary. I think it must have to do with what you grow up with.
I am not a fan. We eat them once in a great while when visiting relatives in MN. I affectionalty call them Meatloaf burgers as they taste like a poorly seasoned meatloaf.
Just utterly average.
Now give me a pastrami burger anytime! Nowhere here in Seattle makes them. I miss Crown Burger, with the 1/3 lb patty topped with 1/4lb griddle cooked pastrami and dripping with melted cheese.
When I was in college I was on the bowling team. We went to Atlantic City every Christmas for a tournament at the Showboat Hotel.
One year one of our teammates, and a New Jersey native, talked with our coach and decided to play a little practical joke on the team. They told us all that we were in for a special treat and they were taking us to a place that had the best burgers we would ever have.
Just before we leave New Jersey to come home we stop into WhiteCastle. I order a 6 pack of burgers and some fries and a coke. I don’t like onions. No one warned me there were onions IN the burgers. Not easy to avoid! I didn’t eat more than two of the little burgers and half my fries. We left.
The trip home from NJ to MA in a 15 passenger van in the winter with the entire mens and ladies bowling teams and their luggage and no real heat because of all the luggage blocking the vents is never pleasant. It is less pleasant when the onion bombs in your belly want to return to the surface.
We finally make it to the dorms and I pop across the way to see Parallax and tell him all about my trip. I tell him about the evil burgers and get to the “WhiteCastle” part - his eyes light up and he interrupts my rant to ask me if I had brought him any!
To him they are a wonderful childhood memory. For me they are indigestion on a bun. I guess opposites do attract.
That’s why we have Dicks!! DE-LISH!!
I have never had a White Castle burger. Weird.
FB
Being in the South, I’ve only had Krystals. You have to get them with cheese. The plain ones suck. You also have to eat them while they’re hot. Since they’re steamed, they quickly turn into congealed globs of monkey vomit when they cool off.
Man, I made my friend from out of town eat some sliders for the first time. Granted the Jalapeno Cheeseburgers might not have been the best thing for him or our toilet…damn was that a good time.
Best story: When I was about seven, Dad took me to White Castle for a treat. This wasn’t too long after it opened, so it was, quite rightly, packed. After we finished our first round, he got back in line. I let out what was the loudest, longest burp I’ve ever heard. The entire restaurant stopped and looked at me.
I’ve never felt more powerful.
Although lots of people are touting the virtues of White Castle “hamburgers” as late-night drunk food, it can’t get late enough and I can’t get drunk enough to voluntarily ingest those things.
You know that greyish greasy yet at the same time insubstantial slimy, poufy fluff that sometimes forms in the pan when you cook hamburgers at home? White Castle burgers taste like little slices of that greyish greasy slimy poufy fluff that have been encrusted with roughly onion-shaped chunks of the same mystery greaslifloufly substance, all served on a bun that has the exact texture, taste, and insubstantiality of a dustbunny.
In short, FEH!
I’m in a mixed marriage, though. My husband grew up on White Castle hamburgers and adores them beyond all reason, so I’m dragged along on several White Castle runs every time we visit family in Chicago. I can tolerate the chicken rings (even if I have no idea what part of the chicken comes in rings, photopat, but I don’t worry about that too much since I don’t think any of the food at White Castle is even organic, let alone derived from anything we would recognize as an animal).
Obligatory White Castle story: One night we were out at a bar here in Boston with a friend who’s as fanatical about White Castle as my husband is, and at some point late in the evening they decided it would be a good idea to call my husband’s brother in Chicago and beg him to fly out here that very night with a big sack of White Castle hamburgers. They were on the phone with him for 45 minutes, but despite their desperate pleas and offers of large sums of cash on top of paying for the airline ticket, my brother-in-law declined. My husband also has another brother, and he said to my husband the next time they talked, “Why didn’t you call me, you idiot? I would have flown out there with White Castle in a heartbeat!”
Maybe that’s why YOU people have dicks, but I know my reason is quite different.
gently reaches through the crowd to touch Hello Again’s hem
My Lord… 
Being here in Columbus, Ohio we got the White Castles. We got a lot of the White Castles. We also got a lot of bars. Coincidence? I think not.
Nothing like 5 Bacon Cheeseburgers, an onion chip, and a large coke at 3:00 a.m. after a night of drinking. Guaranteed good nights sleep and several hours of flatulance the following day.
I cannot, and absolutely refuse, to eat them sober.
MeanJoe
I find it cruel that Krystal’s exists right over the border in Louisiana (ok, to be truthfully, it’s a fer piece, even after you cross the border) but not here in Houston, TX. I have never had White Castle, but I agree with Max Carnage. How good can the White Castle version be when you’ve dumped so many onions in and taken out the meat?
I went to GA for Christmas, and I had Krystal’s at least three times before I headed back to Texas. ~grins~
~J (calculatin’ the mileage to her next Double Cheese Krystal)
Virginia seems to be the buffer zone between White Castle and Krystal; I’ve had neither. After hearing descriptions, I’m not sure I want to either.
If Burger King and Dairy Queen got married, where would they live?
White Castle!
You’re shittin’ me! I love that burger! One weekend when my wife was away, I ate about 35 - 40 of those! I had them for dinner Friday night, after a night of heavy drinking. I had them for lunch and dinner on Saturday. And then a repeat performance while drinking beer and watching football with my friends on Sunday.
I think that they still have it available in some NJ WCs, including the one by my house.
In & Out > Backyard Burger > Wendys > Burger King > Krystal > White Castle > McDonalds
At least in my opinion. In and Out is AWESOME. Tis a shame they don’t have them everywhere or I’d be a fatty by now. They turned a White Castle into a bar near where I grew up.
Dicks Burgers! The best greasy fry round these parts (Seattle)
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