What goes best with a slider from White Castle? 2007 CdP in magnum? I love White Castle cheeseburgers and wish I had a sack right now, but maybe beer would be the best choice?
I have lots of fond childhood memories of White Castle burgers. Mom would take us to the one on Union Turnpike. Later in life I would stop at the one on Bell Boulevard after perusing the bins at “Gold Liquors” (different from the world famous Gold Star Liquors in Forest Hills on Queens Blvd run by Lou Iacucci). Down south they call them “Krystals” (a separate chain but same burger).
Don’t have White Castle anywhere that I know of in Northern California. The picture looks like a Wendy’s Burger with the bun trimmed to fit the square pattie.
A few years ago, while on Christmas break in the US, my kids, wife, brother and his wife made it a point to try out White Castle’s burgers (due to having watched that Harold & Kumar movie). With all due respect to those who like the stuff, we found the burgers quite awful for our tastes.
Harsh crowd. Think of sliders as American Dim Sum rather than burgers and you might like them better.
Comparing White Castle to other hamburgers is like comparing a New York pizza to a Chicago pizza. There is no point because they are a completely different animal.
Randy, you may not have have White Castle near you, but you do have In & Out burger. That is the only chain-hamburger experience I’ve had even close to worthy of the word “cult”.
The former food critic for the Dispatch stated in an article many years ago,
“After all, the Grumpy Gourmet says nothing’s better than a White Castle slider and a Bordeaux,” said Richardson, referring to former Dispatch restaurant critic Doral Chenoweth.
Yeh, I don’t know how they will get any beer/wine sales…I mean in Michigan the place was jam packed after 2am…when alcohol sales were shut off for the night.
Salty foods (I assume a couple of these have your daily limit) are best with a sparkler. Maybe a nice off-dry Champagne. Probably something under $100.
Having had both on more occasions that I’d care to remember or admit, the only things White Castle sliders and Krystal burgers have in common is their size and both are better consumed after heavy drinking. The one thing Krystal offered when I frequented while at school in TN was pickle flingage (for those not schooled in the south, that would be flinging the pickles on the windows to the point of finally being kicked out by the rent-a-cop). To the point of the thread, this is just wrong. If you’re drinking at the White Castle Bar does one then make a late night run to Taco Bell?