gut bombs .. good one ...
well, it must be a East Coat thing .. I did a search on White Castle and got this:
http://www.whitecastle.com/_pages/Locate.asp
We're sorry, there are no White Castle restaurant locations in California.
Found in the frozen food section of Sam's Club, Albertson's, Ralphs, etc.

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zinzin,
see what you have gone and done?

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guys,
i think zinzin is comparing to airline food and its not sliders but Slyders ...
why are they square?



















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At one time the White Castles were located all over the east and midwest. They really were the only fast food chain. The "sliders" never came with anything like lettace, tomatoes mayonaise, ect; just mustard. (And plenty of chopped up onion imbedded in the small meat patty.) They were usually taken "out" in a paper bag, sans french fries. They still are the perfect accompiant with a beer, coke, a chocolate shake you can drink with a straw, or even some very good "cheap" (it's gotta be) wine.
Believe it or not, once you got away from cities like New York or Chicago there was no food available in the downtown areas anywhere after 10 PM if there was no "Castle"
I used to get in towns like Cincinatti, Little Rock, Louiseville,, Nashville, Memphis, and even Detroit, ect; after 9 PM. Taxi downtown to a hotel, (damn few motels at the time)and find the only food in town was to be had at a 24hr White Castle. You could always find a beer but never a sandwich. And believe it or not, even the hotel kitchens were never opened over holidays. Room service? forget it!
A "cult" grew.
So many mid westerners moved to the sprawling Phoenix area where there were no "Castles" and the "frozen slider" business had not been developed that about 29 years ago a group in Arizona chartered an American Airlines 707 freighter and flew a complete load of "sliders" to Arizona for a weekend "convention" of "White Castle" devotees who just had "that pang!" (This is all true)
It's easy to draw a following when you associate food with experiances. Both my sons are devoted Castle "addicts" one after spending four years in South Bend and the other in St Louis in college where the bags of sliders hit the dorms at midnight.
I've done the same in "Queens" when at LaGuardia for training sessions.
I'm afraid they will all dissappear in the near future in the aftermath of the five dollar "plus" hamburger that I defy anyone to eat and finish with a clean shirt!
And that "Photograph" I have in the Family room is "The" White Castle that always comes to my mind when eating a "slider." It's on a cold night, in the middle of the block, illuminated by the street lights with a full moon overhead. (You hadda be there)
One last thing, I never saw a Castle with a "drive thru!"

 

"drive thru?"
how many cars were there in 1921 when White Castle was born?

These days the challenge is not finding an open restaurant but choosing one of several hundred within "walking distance" .. not that anyone walks ...

I am still unsure why we still use that term .. "walking distance" .. what does that mean to today's generation?

 

Yes Zal, but you have to remember they still were building hundreds of them in the fifties when the drive-in was the rage. Seems to me that a requirement for a White Castle restuarant location was always "avacant lot" nest door!

 

My favorites are In-n-Out burger (animal style).

Then Boll Weevil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil_(restaurant), a locally owned company in San Diego that makes very tasty 1/2 lb.burgers. They come 'dry' but all the fixin's are on your table so you can add anything you want (ie. onions, pickles, sauces, mustards, etc.). First time I had a Boll Weevil burger was in 1966 while on leave. I couldn't believe it! A 1/2 lb. burger for 69-cents! Now they are in the $4 to $5 range. They use to advertise, "A MEAL... not just a Mouthful."

Lastly, Hodad's in Ocean Beach which make the best sloppiest burger on the planet. They wrap it in a 'daiper' so you can keep all the good stuff together.

Pictures below are from Hodad's

http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/pP3...AbokyMWi8nfg/l

http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/JHy...i-EDhRFfK8CA/l

If I were visiting here, I'd got to Hodad's first. Just visiting the restaurant is an experience in itself since its on the main beach access in OB. Lots of eye-candy to go along with your burger and shake.

Boll Weevil has been around since early '66 and now has 17 restaurants in the San Diego area.

Hodad's started out as a tiny 4 stool burger joint that catered to the local surfer crowd for breakfast and lunch in 1969. It's still a local hangout but as it became known they relocated into a larger place and is now known as a 'must go-to' place when in Ocean Beach. You can't miss if you order the Burger Basket w/bacon like the one above.

..rickko..

 

Zal, RickAol article today!


Best Burger
In the US? In-N-OutBurger in L.A.&Five Guys
InD.C.Won Last Year

 

I've been in about three major "franchised" restuarants in the past few months (Ruby Pearle, British Ale House. and Bertuccis) and theyall list their on "sliders" which are several mini burgers very easy to get your hands around to eat!

 

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