White Castle, buy 'em by the sack - Life in America 

I worked at White Castle in the early 90's, I still eat there because of the cleaning guidelines that they follow. The reason you only find one side of the restaurant open at a time is because the other side had been broken completely down and cleaned. You had to be able to see your reflection in the stainless still, that's a rule. We also had to clean the baseboards around the restaurant. I meet my first husband while I was working at White Castle, he walked in one day asked me on a date, and we were married for 21yrs. I still love White Castle though the marriage didn't last LOL

I have a vintage 40s White Castle coffee cup, and I still use it. The thing is virtually indestructible.

White Castle at 2am is a snapshot of humanity

Have been a loyal customer of White Castle for 35 years. Quality has never changed my entire life

This the best channel on RU-vid for us Boomers! We had our youthful days in the sun, and they were wonderful! (sure, no life is perfect but for many of us, those years were pretty darn great!) Playing outside until the street lights came on, then home for a delicious homemade dinner that good ole mom spent hours preparing! We had church on Sunday, the only day I had to wear a suit, tie, and hat. After church, we had a rare treat, a meal at a restaurant at *White Castle* for a yummy lunch. (Plus, it gave mom an equally rare break!) I could continue, as the memories are flooding back, but you get the idea. Thank you for this wonderful channel, it brings back so many fond memories for this formerly carefree boy.

Been eating them for over 60 years, never a rummy tummy. They opened their first location in the West here in Scottsdale, Az two years ago. Been doing land office business ever since. during the first month they had to close overnight to re-supply. If they expand into California it will be huge. I had 'em last week!

I remember back in the early 60's when us kids rode and stood up in the back of the car without seatbelts and eagerly waited on the carhops and the burgers were 12 cents then. Good times! But don't worry folks. Still workin' on that time machine. I'm just a little short on plutonium, a couple of widgets, and a hamster wheel. LOL! Happy 100th WC!!

Great memories of White Castle in Louisville KY, sitting in my grandma’s ‘66 Nova with the glove box open and our sodas perched there. Miss her and White Castle!

I haven't lived near a White Castle in over 26 years. Still miss them.

In the 70’s I Bowled in the league it was in the Bronx New York.After drinking 5 to 8 pitchers of beer we would go to White Castle,I would eat 3 to 4 dozen burgers with 6 orders of fryes! 2 weeks ago I had quadruple bypass I am trying to figure out why🤔😁😁

I got invited on a mystery bus trip once . It was to be about a three hour drive and the destination was kept secret. It ended up being a trip to a White Castle! I had never even heard of it before , but I’m glad I went..tasty burgers. Everybody had a great time and excellent meal!

If I buy White Castle hamburgers, I buy them by the Crave Case rather than by the sack! That's a restaurant that stays consistant in it's quality!

I remember as a little girl my Mother took me to White Castle for the first time downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. I believe I was 5 or 6 years old. To this day White Castle is still my favorite hamburger both by the sack and fish sandwich singles.

There's a whole bunch of White Castles in the New York area. They're not just in the midwest.

I’ve had to buy the frozen sliders in my grocery store since there are no White Castles in Texas, but they are really good, I can only imagine how delicious they would be fresh from the restaurant! Thanks for all the great videos!! 🍔

A history lesson, a business lesson, and a walk down memory lane, all in one.

To this day...I STILL have sliders once a week...the taste has never changed, and along with Top Hat, are still a treat. Long may they stay the same, so future generations will know what their ancestors 'craved' !

I used to go to White Castle in Missouri during my teen years. Loved it! Now many years later I'm in Mississippi and settling for store bought frozen. Not complaining, still tasty.

This guy's narrative is so easy to listen to and it is informative without bombarding you with useless information. Love this channel...

What a beautiful sight: watching through the glass window as the cook steam-grills your sliders, assembles them, and then tucks them into those little cardboard boxes. A precision operation!

I absolutely LOVE White Castle!

This is great channel. Thank you!

YUM, YUMMINESS! The frozen ones you can buy in the supermarkets are good too!

White Castle left NE Ohio several years ago... the frozen product is OK but nothing can substitute the steamy goodness of a fresh off the grill slider.

Delicious memories of White Castle in Paramus, New Jersey with my kids in the 90s. What a feast! 😁

I love White Castle still😋

They're so good. Growing up in the midwest we had them and in fact my grandmother lived right by one. We'd go because she also liked it. I don't think I've had one since (1980s) must remember to stop by one next time I visit back there.

Always my favorite fast food place. Their burgers are so good, they have never needed some vast menu.

I never drive by a White Castle without stopping. If there is a White Castle in the area where I am driving I will go out of my way to stop & grab a sack. When I was a kid and we would be headed on a 4 hour drive to northern Michigan every weekend my dad would always hit White Castle to feed four kids

Still go there all of the time, several locations near me.

Great to hear the backstory! I've only ever had them frozen in California supermarket offerings, even though I realize having freshly made ones are probably way better!

Damn,I must be getting old. I remember when you could buy 10 for a dollar

There are four White Castle Burger locations in southern Nevada. Three in Vegas, and one between there and the California border, so they've actually expanded beyond their Midwest territory, and are even west of the Rockies.

I LOVE WHITE CASTLE!!! Great Memories of my late Mom who loved them, too... Back in the 1980s, I drove a motor coach from Bloomington, Illinois to O'Hare Airport and back and would drive down to Schiller Park to get a Sack of Cheese Burgers with Extra Pickles and 'Everything' Sauce for Lunch... Mm mm mm m! Thankfully, the Ingram Family has been a good steward of the gift they have shared with all of us, and even though they aren't as ubiquitous as other chains, they are still worth a couple hundred mile road-trip every year or two.

I love White Castle. Grew up eating them. Way better than McD's & BK. Unfortunately,where I live now there's no White Castle & the frozen ones are not the same. Also love the Dusseldorf Mustard

I grew up with white castle in minneapolis in the fifties. My brother and i loved going there with our dad..i can still remember the delicious smell and those neat white boxes. I think they were 12 cents each at the time. Cant get them in california unfortunately. Great memories!!

I never ate an entire sack, but, I ate a few when I lived in St. Louis, MO. The locals called White Castle Burgers "belly bombs."

We didn’t have White Castle where I grew up, but I remember seeing them on family vacations. I thought they were something fancy, being a castle and all. I was disabused of this notion many years later while drunkenly scarfing down a bag of White Castle after logging several bar hours.

Unfortunately we don't have White Castles here in Tucson,Az...I didn't have a SLIDER until I met my girlfriend (now my wife) back in 2000 in Chicago Heights Area

My younger brother can't get enough of those White Castle cheeseburgers. He was glad he can buy the frozen sliders from the local Walmart.

Loved White Castle during the high school years...and beyond 70's, 80's, (prior to closing).. Good Times indeed. Thanks for the memories.

White Castle has never changed for me since I was younger. 29 years since my first one and it's still the best!

I never saw White Castles until I was an adult. Growing up in Nashville, the equivalent burger was Krystal. I can remember them being 10 cents. They had freestanding buildings, plus narrow “hole in the wall” diners on downtown streets. I recall once buying a sack of them and sneaking them into the Loews Theater next door to munch during the matinee. I still love both Krystal and White Castle, and enjoy them whenever I can.

My favorite stop while in the military near Chicago! Great taste and also the same wherever I stopped by a WC store.

My favorite restaurant to take out of town guests who've never had a White Castle. I especially love the look on their face when I order first and get a sack of 10.

Love White Castle, I see they finally opened in Arizona, I missed them ever since I moved from Hellinois!

In the early 80s in high school, I would drive from the Anderson area and stop at the White Castle in Newcastle on my way to concerts at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. The TV Guide had a coupon where you buy six, get six free. Of course, this meant missing the opening act while in the bathroom, but that's okay. The frozen ones are alright, but they aren't the same unless some teenager is sweating over them. I'd still go eat one today. Miss that place, that time, and the experience.

My favorite fast food place! Awesome video!

I remember that motto vividly: “what you crave”. I wish I were there.

My mom and dad would take the family to the Whiting, Indiana location. (saw it listed on one of the coupons you showed in the video) Last weekend shared a Crave Clutch with my son. They are sooo good! Thank you for the video, RR

I currently drive an hour and a half to my nearest White Castle every couple months when i MUST have some.

They just opened up the world’s largest one in Orlando a few days ago. I guess traffic was bad for blocks around.

Living in Wichita in the late 90's White Castle was legend, there was a number of Kings X and Toc's but they were on their way out when I left in 2005. The only place to get a real slider in KS is the Cozy Inn in Salina.

At 6:44 that sure looks like the beloved WC at Chippewa & Hampton in St. Louis that closed in the mid 80's

My family loves Them

Thank you for your work putting this together. You do a great job explaining along with the photos thank you!👍🏽

My dad always called it the aluminum room. I love them too this day. Great video

I remember a White Castle in my neighborhood before they shutdown locations in the Florida in the late 60's. In the 80's, while working as a scenic designer for a local production of "Grease" I modeled the 'Burger Palace" exterior set on my memories of the big plate glass window that let you watch the grill from the north side of the building. Now White Castle just built their biggest branch ever in Orlando. I'll have to plan a stop there when I'm in town, for old times sake.

Their best ad was "Hamburgers For Breakfast? WHY NOT?" Still my favorite.

Nice video! Do you watch the Food that Built America? They made an episode about this! I had no idea that White Castle was essentially the first burger franchise.

I remember as a kid getting a sack of burgers & being excited. I don't remember getting a pickle in my burgers? Anyways, there's ALWAYS a couple of boxes in the freezer. I left a message with the company today that they should make 4 packs instead of 3 & more onions on both sides etc.. I don't care if they raise the price... Just add more onions on!

The White Castle at about 5:40 is the Rego Park one on Queens Blvd. It's been there forever.

Pops grew up in Chicago in the ‘30’s WC were 5 cents each or five for a quarter. Took him a year to figure out it was all the same

I was waiting for this! I again, was working for them too! When I first saw them cook up the burgers, I thought it was rice they were placing the burgers on! Consumed a whole lot of these "bunnies"! Thank you so much for all the memories!

White Castle is always innovating. The breakfast sausage, egg and cheese on wheat toast is delicious. Jalapeno cheeseburgers and I love those onion chips.

I loved WC when I was a kid. My pop called them "murder burgers". Our closest one was on Detroit's west side. Every few weeks some poor soul got shot in the parking lot.

I had a couple of White Castle burgers while in Detroit years ago. They are good!

We had Krystals in the south! Same fare, and boy did I love them!

I will never doubt you White Castle

White Castle was a birthday favorite. Dad would drive to Hammond, Indiana, and order 100 hamburgers. We didn't refer to them as sliders. Good memories!

Sure Harold & Kumar would approve!

We always stop at WC. The whole family loves it. We have been eating there in Brooklyn since I was a kid in the 60's

Just had White Castle yesterday. Not something I have frequently... really good though.

Loved White Castle sliders and had to travel to Cincinnati to enjoy them. Now they have just opened the world's largest White Castle in Orlando Fl. Now its only a 1 hour drive to get my Sliders. If you visit Florida or the Orlando area, be sure to make this White Castle location a must go to destination its large and beautiful !!

I remember when White Castle Hamburgers were, .19 cents and White Castle Cheeseburgers were ,29 cents each.

Just got the Biggest one in the Country down here in Florida!!! Always went to White Castle in New York.

Car hops and pay toilets are among my White Castle memories as a kid in the 60's. As we got older and they became the post bar hop stop, we called them "Murderburgers".

My dad would get coupons from the summer camp or school he supervised in Chicago. When we would go on the summer vacation camping trip, White Castle was the last stop before hitting the open road. Bags and bags the my sister and I would eat in the back seat of the 1964 Corvair. I miss my folks, the trips and much simpler times. And I sure do miss living in a city with a White Castle!

I just checked the White Castle Locator for the state of Michigan and I see the one we used to go to when I was a kid is still open! Harold and Kumar here I come!

I had to go to White Castle when I returned to St Louis in 2018 for my 40th HS reunion. Still love those soft, small slider burgers.

Actually, Overland Park Kansas had a White Castle location in the nineties. It was at the southeast corner of 87th & Metcalf.

The Doors, a 69 Road Runner, White Castles on the South Side of Chicago. Good times man. Good times.

I love White Castle, when I make my way home. The very first place me and my family to stop at isn't my childhood home, nope!! It's White Castle baby...... YUMMY!

Such a great story of true American entrepreneurship! I love that they even started a subsidiary company to supply the building materials for White Castle outlets. amazing! :-)

1999 was the last time I had a fresh White Castle. And this video made my mouth water

My stepfather used to take us to white castles when I lived in the bronx in the early 1970s. Back then you could feed a family of 5 for under $5 and everybody was full!

I grew up in Minneapolis in the late forties and fifties and it was a treat to go buy a sack in the car on a Saturday nite. I can still smell them!!🤗

They did leave Kansas but came back they had one on 7st in Kansas City.ks The building is still there .

Yum,loved 'em !

No white castle near me, but i buy them in the freezer case at the grocery store. Pretty good !

My favorite burger bar none. When I was a boy they sold for 12 cents. They were the greatest meal a poor and hungry boy could have. Their french fries were also tops. I am grateful even to this day for the delicious and inexpensive meals they provided me. My only kick is that they changed mustards. I love White Castle. They were a big part of my childhood and life. If I had to order a last meal it would likely be steaming hot off the grill White Castle hamburgers, fries and a coke. I could go out happy and well fed.

Was it a coincidence that you posted this on 4/20? Love these burgers. Not something I can eat every day but it's nice to grab a sack on a trip.

I love White Castle! Grew up in Minneapolis and still recall the various locations (East Lake Street, LaSalle & Grant, East Hennepin). When I was in junior high in the ‘70s, I usually had 4 White Castles ($0.14 each) & 2 Turkey-burgers ($0.25 each) . I now live in Columbus Ohio, where White Castle is HQ. Fun fact: Columbus is HQ to the two best-known square burger chains in the country : White Castle & Wendy’s. I still go there once every 2-3 months. Sliders are still awesome, but please bring back the turkey-burgers!

We have a few out west in Las Vegas, Nv. One out by the airport on paradise and harmon ave. One inside The Casino Royale right on the Strip across from the Mirage. And the other one is at the Downtown Fremont Street experience over by The El Cortez. All are VERY popular!

There’s a song: “NIGHTS AT WHITE CASTLE “ You can find the song from KSHE-95 , on line ( but another radio station also did a different version). 📻🙂

I wish they had them here in Texas, folks don't know what they're missing! I loved them as a kid and nothing beat their Burgers fresh cooked, not the frozen stuff at WalMart.

I always wished White Castle was in the SF Bay Area! Finally had some in Brooklyn in 2001! Yummy!✨

Being a New England boy I didn't grow up on White Castle but there is one right down the street from the Greyhound station in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is where I was introduced to White Castle and still the only one I've ever been in. Made it a point over years of numerous bus trips to go there every time I got laid over in Indy.

They are still going strong here in Chicago. The burgers are insidious because it is impossible to eat just a couple - I attack the entire sack. They seem to taste better with a six pack of beer.

Always my favorite burgers. Loved to "buy 'em by the sack."