Who wants White Castle???

Thanks Dave……..just had to mention White Castle didn't you! Don't you know where in the middle of the worst snow storm southeast Michigan as had in 10 years. Now I have to drive up to Ann Arbor and get my fix.

Clem

Six hours to my nearest WC!!! But I too want a sack now!

Not drunk enough.   Catch me next Friday or Saturday night.   Needs to be late though - I have to be close to sick before I eat it...  

Seriously though, nice model!   I wish I had skills, but you know what they say:  wish in one hand, and  *&^% in the other, and see which one fills up first.  

So... I guess I have to live vicariously through talented people like you!

I had a crave pack of 1/2 regular and 1/2 with cheese just 3 days ago. Me and my son had plenty left for a second helping the next day. I pick them up on my way home from the Doctors almost every time. You have to love them or you hate them.

NICE JOB DAVE!!!!

I think I am going to call Jimmy John's and have him make a run to White Castle

When I go visit my brother in Columbus Ohio I go by White Castle.....Then when I tell my brother he claims NO ONE goes there......but they are open 24 hours day so someone is going!!!! I only go 2-3 times a year so I ain't keeping them open!!!!

Dave I am sure you know that down South they have Krystal's that are like the WC.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?

AMCDave Good job on your burger joint ,thank's for comment on my saw mill left you some information on my post that you ask about .

Guy

Boy does that building remind me of when I was a kid!!  My Dad and I would go down to the WC just off of downtown in Gary Indiana (this was back in the very early 1960's) and he would buy 10 or 12 of the burgers.  We would eat several before we got home...would make Mom mad!!

In case some of you don't know...if you don't have one nearby, you can purchase a box of them at some local grocery stores.  Yep, they are frozen but not bad if you zap them in the microwave, add a pickle slice, and a squirt of mustard!!

Alan

Very nice. I might have to build that one too. We didn't have a White Castle around us for years and my mother took to making her, very similar, version. We still make them at least once a month. Wish I had a sack of  the real ones right now. All of the ones you have built look really sharp.

Nice looking building!

And I just happen to have had 4 white castle cheeseburgers today for lunch!

Terry

Now all you need to stock your White Castle.

I remember when as a kid, it was THE only fast food burger joint seen, and they were a treat on monthly trips into the "big city"....but the one I passed locally closed several months ago...bank building now on the lot.  You have to like onions to like "sliders", kind of an acquired taste.

never saw them in PA.  Are they the micro burgers?  there is more bun than the burger.  I like the DQ flamethrower!  big old 3 meat burgers cheese and lots of toppings! 

White castle burgers are small on a dinner roll. They may be the original slider's, although I never heard that term until the last few years.

Very cool WC, Dave! Luckily, we have them here, although I don't have one on the layout....yet.

Cool building but the burgers are horrible. We had some here in NE Pa. And now most of them are gone, thank god.

there aren't any white castles here or nearby in Frederick Md.  I'm not a real fan of the burgers, but they are good. Sorta reminds me of the Cock Robin variety we had in Naperville Ill where I grew up.

I remember watching them being fried, kind of a prepared patty with five holes in it,

shipped in from an outside processing plant.  Their motto was "Buy them by the sack",

and we did, at 12c (twelve cents) apiece.  The last couple of times I ate several, my

stomach rebelled, so I quit buying them, maybe a function of aging.

i like there burgers but dont like the after affects from them..people call them belly boomers..

They also call them "sliders", because they slide in and then they slide out.

If you want a couple of really neat how-to articles on a classic fast-food structures...DQ and White Tower...check out the latest (February 2014) issue of GardenRailways.  I understand that the projects are based on large scale structures, but as much as we scale-up HO, we can scale-down large scale.  Besides, there are some neat graphics available online associated with the projects.  And, if nothing else, it's inspirational.

FWIW...

KD

He's probably right...to quote a famous line...

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

--Yogi Berra

They are little burgers steamed on a bed of onions... There is a White Castel In Whitehall Pa. When it opened the traffic backed up so bad and they had to have cops direct Traffic.  But them littler burgers are good. You either love them or hate them.. But add a few beers and man the are the best for the late night munchies...

Man I want some now.. The KC ones look good also...

"Back in the day", White Castle was a good 2 AM place after a night of carousing. Consuming a bag of sliders would put you in shape to drive home with at least one eye open. 

Colorado Hirailer,

When I was growing up, we used to go to the movie house on a Saturday afternoon for a $ quarter and then cap off the day with 5 cent sliders - guess that makes me an old fart.  'Sliders' 'cause the went in like any other burger and slide right out - great cure for constipation over the ensueing 24 to 36 hours!

Back then, Mcdonald's burgers were 12 cents as were their local competitor BBF (Burger Boy Food-o-rama) which was a local chain here in Columbus, Ohio of which one of the founders was Dave Thomas, later to become primary founder Wendy's.

Best,

Dave

I just looked it up on Wikipedia....it is the oldest fast food chain, started in 1921,

and is all company owned, no franchises, which is why it has not grown as, say,

McD's.  The founders started a whole lot of customs common to fast food today, and

the descendant of one founder still runs it.

Started in Kansas and there are none in Kansas today.  One local one, and the one

back in my home town where I first encountered them, are both gone.  They are fried in the onions, which, since my stomach does not now like onions, has put them out of my reach.  At least one person I introduced them to, hated them.   I used to be able to gobble a bag full.  I might model one of the buildings, given they existed in my era,

but none were found in desolate mining camps.

Here's a thread from a couple years ago on White Castle structures:

https://ogrforum.com/t...-castle-kit-or-plans

Your building really looks good, nice job!

When I was still working I had heard all the talk about how great sliders were so I had to try some.  I stopped at the location closest to work and started to go in.  As soon as I opened the door, the overpowering smell of onions hit me.  It was so strong that I turned around and left so that I wouldn't get that strong onion smell in my clothes.  My friends asked me later why I didn't go through the drive-up?

Recently while working at our church's food pantry, a fellow worked brought in WC sliders for us all for lunch.  I loved them!  After all this time, I think they are great!

Art 

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Art do you know who suppiied the buns for WC?

Back in the day when I had my first KRYSTAL/WC they were 10 cents each and then they had a B I G  PRICE KNCREASE TO 12 cents

Bill, I don't know who supplied them with buns, but it was not CBC anywhere that I worked.  We didn't supply Krystal either.  CBC really didn't specialize in the restaurant business in the larger cities as a general rule.  In the smaller cities in the Midwest we supplied a lot of them though.

Art

Saw a story where WC makes all it's own foods....one reason they do not have as many locations as a McD!

I have never had the inclination to try those frozen sliders you can get at the supermarket. Are they at least "passable"?

Oh...you'll pass 'em...trust me.

Mark

I've been following this for several days now. So I have to make my mothers version of these. Not cooked in onions but rather Lipton onion soup mix, mixed in with the ground beef. I use Hawaiian sweet dinner rolls. I've seen the frozen ones. But almost anything I've ever tried to eat, heated up frozen, or even refrigerated, that has a bun, roll, or bread just comes out like cr#$. I'd say you have to be pretty wasted to eat the frozen ones. I haven't had actual white castle burgers since I was a kid, maybe almost 50 years ago.