Monday, February 17, 2014

Ladies and Gentlemen, the White Castle Slider

White Castle was established in 1921 as what may have been the first hamburger franchise.  They quickly got a reputation as the worst hamburgers that will ever be made ... but that didn't stop the franchise from spreading all over the northern U.S. and it continues today.  That cheeseburger is now known in song and in legend as The Slider.



A friend once came back to Cincinnati to visit and said there was nothing to do in Cincinnati except get wasted and go to movies.  However, he left out one thing:  you can get drunk and go to White Castle at two in the morning.  (You can also go to Skyline Chili when you're drunk at two in the morning and it's a much better bet.)

White Castle was already the hands-down worst value there has ever been in cheeseburgers.  By weight, there's no more-expensive sandwich on the planet but they cleverly came up with a way to make them even more expensive as they have a line of frozen products.  Despite the poor value, a package of these cheeseburgers jumped into the cart at Wal-Mart and an epiphany came over me:  it is time to introduce White Castle to Texas.

The introduction did not go well, despite initial enthusiasm from my friend.

"Errrmmm, I don't know," she said.

In Texas English, that means 'it really sucked hard but you are my friend and I do not want to say it ... y'all.'


(The lack of enthusiasm is likely because Fort Worth is home to Kincaid's, purveyors of the finest cheeseburger in America and probably the entire world.  Texans can't make chili worth a damn but they do make good burgers.)

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