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What's going on behind the venerable ramparts of White Castle?
As Nation's Restaurant News reports, it appears that the chain is looking to be home to more than just its oddly addictive little sliders. It's testing three different restaurant-within-a-restaurant concepts, trying its hand at a strangely diverse mix of fast-food fare: barbecue, pressed club sandwiches, and "Americanized Asian noodles."
Taken together, it kind of looks like company executives simply headed down to the food court at their local mall and had an epiphany: "Hey, we could do all this!"
Inside one of its restaurants in Lafayette, Indiana, White Castle recently opened Blaze, which it bills as "modern barbecue." (We have no clue what they mean by "modern" here; presumably they won't be serving mastodons on a spit.) According to the online menu, Blaze offers a range of barbecue staples, from pulled chicken to brisket, and traditional sides (baked beans, mashed potatoes, etc.).
Perhaps trying to capitalize on the recent mega-sandwich trend, the chain has also launched Deckers at its location in Lebanon, Tennessee. To quote from the menu: "Each Decker is stacked and packed with 3 layers of bread and 2 layers of meat, cheese, veggies and condiments, then grilled to hot, crispy, melty perfection."
As for the third new concept, the noodle shop -- it seems the company is preparing to open that at a store in Springfield, Ohio, but even the intrepid folks at Nation's Restaurant News couldn't get White Castle to say more. All we know is that the company recently filed to register the trademark for the name "Laughing Noodle."
No doubt that Harold and Kumar, at least, will think it's hilarious.
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9-06-2010 @1:56PM CHARLES RIEHM said... GROWING UP ON LONG ISLAND, I ALWAYS WENT TO W.C. . IN 1956 WENT TO WC WITH FRIENDS. WE ORDERED 5 OR 6 EACH. THE GIRL I WAS WITH ORDERED ONE. SHE THOUGHT WE WERE PIGS. SHE ATE TWO OF MINE. LIVING IN FLORIDA NOW. I NEVER MISS GOING TO WC WHEN I VISIT NEW YORK. CAN'T GET THEM HERE. LOVE THOSE BURGERS---C.
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9-06-2010 @2:14PM jerry williams said... GO WHITE CASTLE! WHY SHOULDNT THEY TRYU NEW PRODUCTS? THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD, LONG TRACK RECORD AND SHOULD GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE COMPANY! I WISH YOU WERE IN ARIZONA AZ WE NEED THEM NOW! GOOD LUCK
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9-06-2010 @2:37PM Hannah said... The frozen ones smell like someone passed bad gas!! My family eats them by the bag when we go back to Michigan. Krystal's are o.k. in my opinion, not the same as W.C. fresh but way better than the frozen.
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9-06-2010 @2:38PM Jerseyguy said... WC is not a franchise company and privately owned. Thats why you can't buy a franchise anywhere.
When I was a kid they were 11 cents (i'm 63 now) I moved from the city years ago and miss them
very much. Whenever I go back my first stop is WC. Sure they have gone up in price but who hasn't?
Micky Ds were cheap also I think 20 cents when they first opened. The thing now about WC is the
way they are set up now. Because many were built in the ghetto which wasn't a ghetto at the time,
they are built like a bank, with teller like windows and bullet proof glass but it is worth it. The sliders
are still the best burgers. They also have the best onion rings, but the best fries are from Nathans
which began in Brooklyn. They have some here in Jersey and I love their dogs and especially their
fries. yum........
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9-06-2010 @2:51PM Frank Lapp said... They sell them in the midwest on Amtrak trains out of Chicago.
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9-06-2010 @3:01PM scott said... I never been to White Castle but I tried the frozen ones from the market, they were terrible.
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9-06-2010 @3:21PM megan said... they could just add more chains. there are very few in the midwest.
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9-06-2010 @5:08PM CasswellD said... I wish they would open a White Castle in Los Angeles. I would go all the time. I remember and love these burgers from when I lived in New York and New England.
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9-06-2010 @5:33PM Gary said... A few years ago I stopped at a white Castle in Columbus Ohio and the place had a foul odor and the Burgers had the same smell witch turned our stomachs. I think the food was starting to rot and they were still serving it. We tossed them and went somewhere else to eat. Now when we pass through Columbus we laugh at the fools eating there. We certainly will never go to a White Castle again.
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9-07-2010 @10:42AM dmcdaniel said... Have tried the pulled chicken and the pulled pork in Lafayette Indiana. The chicken tasted like plain boiled chicken. No salt ,pepper or any kind of spice just plain boiled chicken. If it was not for the sauce (which could have been better) there would have been no flavor at all.
The pork did have a hint of garlic and that is about it. Both meats were moist and tender but lacking in flavor.
I will have to say the side dishes were tasty. As a whole the meal left me dissapointed.
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9-07-2010 @12:25PM hhecuba said... I remember hearing all the hype about White Castle "hamburgers" while growing up. Then while traveling across country, we saw a WC and stopped. Imagine our dissapointment when we received our "hamburgers". A thin slice of balogna inside a dinner roll. We all laughed when we realized we had been taken into a big joke.
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9-07-2010 @2:14PM chookie said... I go the the W.C. on the Grand Concourse in the Brox whenever I vist home. I too, wish they had sites here in Florida. As a Commercial Real Estate expert, I have contaced them with proposed sites, but no expansion plans in Florida.
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9-07-2010 @4:21PM mike said... Can someone please tell me why there is'nt a white castle in florida?
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9-07-2010 @8:44PM GJ said... I used to be able to eat 16 at one time no problem, then about 9 years ago I ordered 8 and after the 6th one I got really sick. Can not eat them anymore.
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10-14-2010 @5:43PM Diane said... My husband would absolutely love it, if White Castle were to come to Fresno, California. He's from Detroit, Michigan and misses them terribly. The frozen ones are just not the same, although they will do in a pinch!
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