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DJ_X_Trodinaire
01-17-2006, 03:33 AM
who had them?
found em at a frozen food section unfortunately
closest one is about 4 hour drive
i know the fresh ones are better than frozen
but hey if yer hungry you gotta eat!
http://dje2.com/misc/whitecastle0000.jpg

jct
01-17-2006, 04:01 AM
haha sliders with a chaser godda love 'em

stl_tc_king
01-17-2006, 04:14 AM
my first job was working at white castles. sure make you appreciate hard work because they worked my A$$ OFF!

upside- as much free as you wanted during your shift.

downside- you didn't want any after working there for over a month.

great food when your drunk though, 24 hours baby!

SSMtC05
01-17-2006, 04:57 AM
Got a white castle both 5 mins from my house and 20 mins from my house. How lucky am i? The worst thing about em is you only eat em at like 2 or 3 in the morning and you always regret it by 7 am. But something about them keeps you coming back. gotta love em. Good ol murder burgers

Jay

SciontCya
01-17-2006, 05:06 AM
Those are the shiz. We only get the frozen ones out here, but they're still great, in a Cheez-Whiz® kinda way!

Scott

FLINT
01-17-2006, 05:23 AM
walmart sells them around here. when i saw them i had to have them. i got a 1 box a week habbit.

grizzly_choppers
01-17-2006, 01:51 PM
Closest one to me is in Minneapolis. 3 hour drive away man!

Every time I watch Harold and Kumar I damn near make the trip...

pdxbubba
01-17-2006, 01:56 PM
You buying?

SCI_TC_GUY
01-17-2006, 02:48 PM
I got one an hour and a half from me...... but the Save-A-Lot has the boxed frozen ones.... I like the jalapeno cheese sliders best...

JINeration
01-17-2006, 03:18 PM
well where i live there isnt a white castle but we have a place called krystals and they have burgers jus like then and its GOOOOOD..... we have white castle in the fozen section of the store

xBassist
01-17-2006, 03:27 PM
Really wierd.. I just came home, sat down at the computer... opened up scionlife and pulled 1 of 5 white castle cheeseburgers from the sack and saw this topic on the front page.. I rarely get white castle, as the closest one is about 50 miles away... I was coming home from that way and stopped off for some ;P

jct
01-17-2006, 05:16 PM
you godda get the "crave case" a box of 30 white castles 38 dollars, that'll keep you fed for a couple of days or little bit longer

SCI_TC_GUY
01-17-2006, 05:42 PM
^^^ then you'd be walking around for the next week with a toilet strapped to your @§§...HAHAHA

DJ_X_Trodinaire
01-18-2006, 02:11 AM
doh

surfcity40
01-18-2006, 02:45 AM
i often feel "nostalgic" for them.

outside detroit....we'd gather in the parking lot to show off our 60s and early 70s muscle cars.

i had a Ford Torino "427 cobra-jet" (arguments about the number) with a blueprinted motor and "dual" dual feed 850 hollys (2 four barrel carbs....i added a posi 4-11 rear end). the paint was bad and i had no "rims"....just steelies and bad paint. i never lost, i put the money where it counted (f the body).

my buddy had a black 68 firebird 350 with side pipes and a single 720. it was nice but next in speed....another friend had a purple "Cuda" with a 340 six pack (three two barrel carbs... it was ugly purple and had a fiberglass hood. it almost beat me once.

we always gathered on weekends at the white castle on Gratiot ave., we would lift our hoods to show what was there while we ate sliders, drank beers and then we'd go out onto the road....

we would slow up enough on Gratiot to get almost a quarter mile of open traffic in front of us. the police were pretty much watching who was gonna win without getting involved but when the losers would stick their heads out of the passenger windows and toss empty beer bottles at winners they would get involved. other than that, it was freakin' fun friday and saturday nights (unless i happened to be in "leo's" car which was an American Motors "Javelin" with no motor work on the same 340 and a bunch of "boy racer" stuff (in today's terms). we'd always get our a** kicked on gratiot in that car...but it was a nice looking javelin with a lot of potential.

so the lesson is if your car is fast no need to advertise it as such....if it isn't...put on stickers.

the mopar had a license of PNKSLPS, and the firebird had "Strictly Cash" on the trunk lid.

we were constantly beat by the cars with full blowers and "Mickey Thompson" slicks.

nostalgia

dang they were great burgers (and i made all that up).

SciontCya
01-18-2006, 02:59 AM
^^^ Wish I coulda brought my '69 Z/28 302, Holley 780, Edelbrock Scorpion, Hooker-headered, blue-printed, Crane-cam'd, balanced with Muncey Rock Crusher runner there to join you! :lol:

Good times!

Scion05BOPxB
01-18-2006, 03:13 AM
you godda get the "crave case" a box of 30 white castles 38 dollars, that'll keep you fed for a couple of days or little bit longer

$38!?!?!

WTF man. a case is like $18. In St Louis, closest castle to me, WC ham is like $0.44, cheese is like $0.54 each. of course, I haven't had them in about a year and a half, but I can't imagine they are over $1 each now.

surfcity40
01-18-2006, 03:16 AM
^^^ Wish I coulda brought my '69 Z/28 302, Holley 780, Edelbrock Scorpion, Hooker-headered, blue-printed, Crane-cam'd, balanced with Muncey Rock Crusher runner there to join you! :lol:

Good times!

they were....mix of truth and memories of the truth. the Cuda kicked our a**.

heyitznosaj
01-18-2006, 03:44 AM
I freaked out when i went to white castle for the first time. It was possibly the happiest day of my life.

SciontCya
01-18-2006, 04:09 AM
^^^ Wish I coulda brought my '69 Z/28 302, Holley 780, Edelbrock Scorpion, Hooker-headered, blue-printed, Crane-cam'd, balanced with Muncey Rock Crusher runner there to join you! :lol:

Good times!

they were....mix of truth and memories of the truth. the Cuda kicked our a**.

But my Z had all the cheerleaders in it :)
Besides, those 'Cudas rusted like a Tonka® Truck in the snow!

Tomas
01-18-2006, 05:55 AM
WHITE CASTLE

In 1921, Walter A. Anderson (a short-order cook) and E.W. Ingram (an insurance executive) founded White Castle in Wichita, Kansas. It is the oldest hamburger chain. They served steam-fried hamburgers, 18 per pound of fresh ground beef, cooked on a bed of chopped (or sliced) onions, for a nickel.

White Castle began using frozen hamburgers in 1931 and all White Castle outlets were using them by 1933. The 5 holes were added in the late 1940s.

Sources differ on whether chopped or sliced onions were first used, and if sliced, when the switch was made to chopped.

I don't have dates on the switch from fresh to dehydrated onions.

White Castle sells about 500 million hamburgers a year.

Or make your own:
http://www.batemania.com/recipes/061200.html

pdxbubba
01-18-2006, 02:49 PM
There aren't any White Castles, nor Krystals, nor Cracker Barrels, not even a Waffle House out here!

What we lack in quality restaurants like those, we make up for in coffee shops.... you cna't drive two blocks without passing at least one! Sometimes there are two and three right next door to each other!

I could really use some grits right now....

http://moblog.co.uk/blogs/306/moblog_30105cd09ae25.jpg

SciontCya
01-18-2006, 05:09 PM
Nice set of grits! :lol:
We have "Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles" out here - killer!

Scott