White Castle: Classic or Dud?

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Classic. I do not, categorically, believe in guilty pleasures, but this comes real real close. Sliders, gut-bombs . . . gimme some more, please.

Inspired by going to Dick's Burgers in Seattle (the Capitol Hill location--a local institution), going home with four cheeseburgers, and eating them while watching The Skydivers episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on DVD on my new iBook G4, and having happy memories of my ex-'s apartment, which was mere blocks away from White Castle, where we would go at 3am and make ourselves feel incredibly guilty. (Jeanne Fury, as my ex-'s former next-door neighbor, do YOU ever go to White Castle?)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never had White Castle, living in Canada, but from everything I've heard, I think I would love it very much. Like a second child.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic late at night with cheese while half-drunk or sleep deprived and utterly dud otherwise.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

the funny thing is, I remember they sold them for a while at supermarkets, and you could take them home, microwave them and they'd taste *exactly* the same.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

most vile thing ever. i love it.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

do they still have "chicken rings"?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Classsssssic.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a white castle near here (over by the jay street-borough hall station) and it's crackhead city. last time i ate there i got asked for spare change by three different people.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. I don't think I've ever read someone so proud of eating multiple cheeseburgers while sitting at a computer. Kudos.

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

TOMBOT OTM. The line on the drive thru is always longest after midnight.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

dick's is the place where the cool hang out

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

White Castle and Krystal and jumbo slice pizza are all in the same category for me, it's SOOOOOO good when you're all out of it and just need some grease with a crust attached ("little nubbin of goo") but then one day you try and eat it while sober and go "How did I not vomit that night?"

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I just had some on New Year's Day! I was so colossolly hungover .. it just called out to me. 3 jalapeno cheeseburgers and an order of Chicken rings. I think it still totaled under $3, and god did it taste good.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There is one 80 yards from where I sit. A lobby open 24 hours a day, every day, damned fine milkshakes based on milk products *gasp*, great crinkle-cut fries, and the best steamed tiny patties in the business.

white castles : colon :: drano : clogged sink

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 January 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it should go without saying that no sane person goes to White Castle during daylight hours. (well, OK, unless they're parents with kids looking for quick-n-easy lunch)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, I have never been to that White Castle. I went to college in the Bronx and there's a White Castle right outside of the college gates. I swear, every other week some dude was getting stabbed at that White Castle, but my friends would still go at all frickin hours of the night. The guys would gorge on that shit and come back to the dorms REEKING of onions and grease. And I can't even describe the gas that stuff gave them. Oh god... gag.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm assuming 'chicken rings' are onion rings with chicken replacing the onion?

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

but there's also a Church's Chicken housed there (in the same bldg/sharing the same fryers damn near!), so truly you have no excuse

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The guys were so thoroughly devoted to White Castle that my friend Mike gave his groomsmen personalized WC bowling shirts as a present for being in his wedding. I thought the lot of them were going to weep.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

truly you have no excuse

Ah, but my bowels do.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't even eat this shit when drunk, they're so effing awful. (and i'm someone who likes POPEYES -- when SOBER!)

classic b/c they exist, but not for the food.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I go to WC pretty often in the light of day, but it's usually in the early morning, for sausage- or bacon-and-egg sammiches and coffee. They have good coffee, you know.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Sassy's Sliders

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the after effects of Popeye's spicy chicken on colon >>>> the after effects of Whiteys

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

surely KFC is a million times worse than Popeye's? just the smell of it makes me wanna vomit.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

we who went to rutgers had this to spend our drunken $$ on ... and it was within walking distance from the campus/off-campus apartments (whereas the closest White Castle's was a ten minute drive to Piscataway).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

For that special man in your life

http://www.kingpro.com/white_castle/images/products/tie.jpg

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing about White Castle is after you bring a sack of it home and finish it, you have to actually go and throw it out in your building's dumpster. There's no way you can just leave it in your trash can or you'll regret it the next day.

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that White Castle's initials are "WC."

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

like Winston Churchill?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

More like WC Fields I'm thinkin'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

or "water closet"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

or Water Chestnut

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Watery Crap

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Walter Cronkite

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister found a dead spider in one of the burgers once when we were kids so even thinking about White Castle makes me feel kind of nauseous.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Wigger Camp

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Wiping Choad

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

whiny cocksucker

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

whole (en)chileda

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

or "water closet"

yeah, that's what i was getting at.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

well, crikey!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope that the other NYCers have clicked gabbneb's Sassy Sliders link ... this sounds like a FAP idea, if you catch me drift!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(the place is about the size of a large elevator)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I am dumbass I thought WC Fields was the enema guy. shows how much i know!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, then maybe not.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

For current and former Mpls.-St. Paul residents, the be-all end-all should be a jucy lucy from Matt's, but next down on the list is surely five cheezy sliders from WC.

I don't know whether I find it tres gourmet or tres terrifying that everytime I go there the sliders taste just a little bit different from the last time I go. (And then there's always the odd occasion where they taste truly nauseating.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha I am dumbass I thought WC Fields was the enema guy.

well, he was always pretty damn cranky ... and drunk. maybe they gave him whiskey or vodka enemas.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

WC = Weeping Colon.
I like the fish+cheese+extra tartar sauce. Their fries suck.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

this is WC Fields:
http://www.webtrec.com/wcfields/Fields21.jpg
And now I imagining him having white castles shoved up his anus to facilitate a smoother-riding enterological experience.
You are all fired. Twice.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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We all go to White Castle

― ModJ (ModJ), Sunday, 11 January 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow - Lawrence's Fisheries!! Jordan, you rock. How could I have forgotten them. They are actually near my hood, and given the fact that they're open all night, I really have no excuse for not going there more often than I do. In fact, the last couple times I went there, it was because I got on the wrong bus by mistake after some heavy drinking in the South Loop. Well, ok, I didn't actually get on the wrong bus; i just forgot that the stupid bus (62 Archer) actually re-routes for a couple hours at like 2 am in order to accommodate the UPS workers. So I found myself walking home from 18th and Halsted TWICE now, thanks to my own idiocy. But, thankfully, Lawrence's Fisheries was there both times, waiting for me, the perfect early morning pitstop on a drunken walk home.

They really do have pretty decent stuff. The funniest thing though is the way it all abuts the south branch of Chicago river, in the middle of a mainly undeveloped area. Like, the seafood is actually fresh or something! Fresh from the CHicago river! If you use your imagination it's fun (well, fun for a midwestern city dweller) to think you're at some wharf or something. It's very serene there actually. Especially at 4 in the morning.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hehe, yeah, absolutely. I think I'm going to be in Chicago next month and I'm looking forward to Lawrence's more than anything.

(btw above I meant to say that I had my first WC in CHICAGO, to tide me over until the shrimp of the gods)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

they don't have chick-fil-A in NYC, do they>?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

omg CLASSIC.

I went there once at like 3am whilst homeless in manhatten, and ate 4 burgers, which helped be through the night.. i don't like their "no sleeping" policy though. they should let people sleep provided that they buy the appropriate amount of burgers.

and the CRAVE BAGS or whatever it's called - 100 burgers for $30??? omg!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

they should let people sleep provided that they buy the appropriate amount of burgers.

ha ha "alright, you've been here since 4, you've got to either go or buy some more sliders"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't really like it. Superdog drive-in was way better.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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White Castle burger

This is a tiny White Castle hamburger. It looks greasy and delicious.

Type: food
Selling Price: 12 Meat.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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steve, you're not really supposed to like it. you just eat it, and very likely regret doing that.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

THIS THREAD IS CLASSIC

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I love White Castle...when I'm drunk or hungover. I got food poisoning from one on Christmas Eve a few years ago, took a 6 month break, and now I'm back to obsessed. 4 cheeseburgers and a vanilla shake, please!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 14 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

mr teeny loves them, he always gets six plain. He doesn't drink either! We are full-on sober daylight-goin' whitey fans. I'm vegetarian but I like the way they smell and I get the delightful cheese fries, which I cannot believe have not been mentioned yet.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only been once - on a trip to the US to hang with some Web folk - but I loved it.

I don't wanna know how they can make everything so cheap, though.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 14 May 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

they are so horrible.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 May 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

this shit is STILL nasty!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

come and get it boys.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Classic.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

Incredibly dud. Duddest of all fast food. Nasty.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Classic.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

You're gross and there's no defense for you.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

from when ILX was still cool

― Eisbaer, Sunday, 23 March 2008 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

My intestines do the neutron dance for this shit.

― Eric H., Sunday, 23 March 2008 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

At Christmas time I went to Lake Street for Mexican food with a friend and there was a 10 Sliders $5 deal at the Lake Street WC (There are about three WCs on Lake Street). We were very tempted to stop and pick them up and shared this with my mom when we returned and saw she'd been having 'a Lifetime day'. She was extremely upset with me for teasing her with the possibility of SLIDERS.

― suzy, Sunday, 23 March 2008 06:58 (eighteen years ago)

Eat there every time i'm east of the mississippi and north of the mason-dixon

(only about two times in four years, true)

― kingfish, Sunday, 23 March 2008 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

haha suzy

― Surmounter, Saturday, 19 April 2008 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

haha this entire thread ... old-school ILX at its finest.

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 19 April 2008 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

Lake St. and Blaisdell Ave.

― Eric H., Saturday, 19 April 2008 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

Not far from the only Popeye's I know of in Minneapolis.

― Eric H., Saturday, 19 April 2008 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

i have lived in very close proximity to white castle for close to two years. never been. sleep sez it is not a good one, so that makes me happy.

― tehresa, Saturday, 19 April 2008 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

still nasty after all these years.

― in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Friday, 30 May 2014 01:41 (twelve years ago)

i miss white castle. they don't have them out here; you have to buy them in the freezer aisle.

― nurse with attitude (get bent), Friday, 30 May 2014 02:19 (twelve years ago)

i've never been to one of these! i did buy the frozen ones once out of curiosity, and they were decent by late-night food standards.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 30 May 2014 02:22 (twelve years ago)

their ceo was on cnbc touting their breakfast sandwiches with fresh cracked eggs. Sandwiches looked awesome, tbh

― brimstead, Friday, 30 May 2014 03:08 (twelve years ago)

white castle is fast food simplified to its core nature of toxic waste. i guarantee they scoop this stuff out of industrial barrels of glowing ooze, and it just happens to cook up as something we recognize as "food". good idea to eat this stuff if "what you crave" is similar to radiation poisoning.

― ozmodiar, Friday, 30 May 2014 03:25 (twelve years ago)

for some reason, i though White Castle was on the West Coast. maybe freezing them actually makes them edible.

anyway, there are so many better ways to find good sliders these days that cruising for White Castle makes even less sense in 2014 than it did in 1994.

― in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Friday, 30 May 2014 03:43 (twelve years ago)

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/greatideas/blog/140414/white-castle-600x450.jpg much respect

― brimstead, Friday, 30 May 2014 04:55 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

mmm glowing ooze...

― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:24 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

People in AZ are losing their goddamn minds over 1st location in state opening. Hearing about it for months now, and there's 2 articles on front page of azcentral.com about the "mania". I can only assume it's cause ppl here have never actually eaten White Castle.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 October 2019 17:03 (six years ago)

Amazing! White Castle is so OLD SCHOOL here in the Midwest. And the White Castles are often in old buildings. I do know that so many people from up here end up moving down there, much to our annoyance, so surely some people down there have eaten it.

― Rilke Still Sucks, IMO (I M Losted), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:44 (six years ago)

Oh wait, I have a new answer for Poll: what's the worst part of getting old?

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:50 (six years ago)

i.e. not being able to handle a dose of slider once every three or four weeks

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:50 (six years ago)

Yep I assume the hype here is coming from Midwest & East Coast transplants, so my "never actually eaten" comment was tongue in cheek. Guess I just find ott love for places like WC and Taco Bell that serve shitty gross food bizarre. Yes it's "good when you're drunk" but what isn't???

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:22 (six years ago)

Cooking

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:35 (six years ago)

I eat White Castle maybe twice a year. There's one in my town so we drive past it all the time and every six months or so... "Hey, you wanna get White Castle for lunch?" "Yeah, OK."

Six cheeseburgers is my limit - that's how many I can eat before my stomach starts cramping. And yeah, the gas produced is toxic and house-filling.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:56 (six years ago)

We had this hype for In N Out and tbh it was pretty justified

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2019 21:58 (six years ago)

In N Out is good fast food! I think the ones in AZ have dipped in quality/consistency so I don't go there anymore though. There's so many better options for a burger.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 24 October 2019 22:35 (six years ago)

In n out is just ok

― brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2019 00:05 (six years ago)

does White Castle still do those breakfast sandwiches with the fresh cracked egg

― brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2019 00:05 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-suspended-after-white-castle-brawl-that-left-2-of-them-wounded

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 15 November 2019 14:45 (six years ago)

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