White Castles
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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.
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.
http://www.batemania.com/recipes/061200.html
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From: Portland, Oregon, USA
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....
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....
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