I think a big reason why White Castle isn't a bigger deal is that their main product is a weird mix of small and cheap yet delicate.

It's almost like running an hors d'oeuvres restaurant.

You might love bacon-wrapped dates, or cucumber finger sandwiches, but you wouldn't drive through somewhere to get a sack full of them to take home and gorge on.

WC burgers aren't as 'fancy' as those things, but they are pretty damned tasty and addictive WHEN FRESH. But one or two of them isn't a meal, and 3 or 4 or 6 means that the last one you eat won't be fresh, especially when you take them home first.

They're great to make yourself at home, or to lay out with snacks at a get together alongside the chip and dip and the beanie weanies. It's just not an easy sell to market WC as a 'meal' as we define it nowadays. Not special enough or super-sized enough to qualify on one end, and not healthy enough on the other end.

That’s not powdered sugar..

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sounds about right

Childhood memory: Go into the White Castle on Route 1 in Rahway NJ wasted at 2AM and ask the greasy lady at the counter for a six sack of rats with blood and guts and she places your order without flinching.

They're just scabs on a bun.

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Not enough drunks or stoners think to go there?

Agree
Plus Bonus- your car smells like those burgers for 2 weeks after.

Y'all saved everyone 18 minutes.

It's like asking why Boone's Farm doesn't run the wine market. Something being acceptable when you're already hammered doesn't mean it's good. At all.

Just as Boone's Farm is a viable option for drunk 17 year olds trying see how long they can stretch the evening on their way to 2nd base, White Castle is only worthwhile when you're plowed. Oh sure - there are people who claim to actually enjoy Boone's Farm while sober...but they're philistines.

Perhaps you've never tried something called Mad Dog Habenero Limerita

Hell if they have them here i would never worry about lunch.

Can we get some official CP badging to honor those intrepid folks who are reliably too good to admit consuming proletariat food?

This and I love White Castle but damn they are belly busters

I'll defend McDonalds, man. I'd eat Sonic with a cloth napkin and Wendys spicy nuggets are gods gift to humanity.

It ain't food snobbery - white castle is just shite.

Serious, my old man would bring 3bags of White Castle Shiite home. This was back in the 60s when I guess it was right up there w mc ds or ****in Howard Johnson’s. I’d hide in the other room hoping I’d get out of having to eat that shit. Just the smell makes me gag.
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