A Quiz
December 10th, 2006 | 
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This is another riddle. And I’m going to use it to gauge if what I just experienced is part of American culture or just a bizarre experience.
I will moderate your comments so as to not give away the clue (if there is one).
This Friday I was driving a car in Cincinnati, Ohio.
With me were my wife, her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend.
At some point we passed a fast food restaurant and everyone (except me) started to yell.
They HAD to eat there! They hadn’t had THAT in YEARS.
That was SOOOO good .. they couldn’t believe we were so fortunate to run into (actally: pass) one of ‘those’.
They made me turn around.
I parked. We went in. My wife ordered the food and returned to our table with …
(I’m not making this up!) … TWENTY hamburgers!
Did I mention there were only four of us?
I ate 5, my wife ate 4, her daughter ate 5 and the boyfriend, not a big guy at all, ate 8.
I know, that doesn’t add up to 20, but in all fairness, I only ate 3, but when we walked back to the car I burped … and two came back up.
As a further hint I can tell that for the 20 hamburgers, 4 servings of French fries and four soda’s my wife paid … $14.99
A further hint is that the next day we agreed that it hadn’t been such a great experience after all.
We were STILL tasting the stuff, that now was being described as “pure grease and salt”.
I personally agree with the “grease and salt”, but not with the “pure”. I think it was half-recycled industrial waste. Probably radio-active as well!
Sometimes you get what you pay for!
ANYWAY … was this just a fluke or could you think of the name of the hamburger joint we visited?
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White Castle – no doubt about it.
So far only three responses (by Rob, Bruce and Deannie) .. all correct.
I’m beginning to fear that this, indeed, IS an unfortunate part of American Culture.
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White Castle. Blech. See the film “Harold & Kumar go to White Castle.”
White Castle of course!
What you *need* to try and then you would understand why the hamburger can be such a delight is anything from a chain found only on the West Coast called In-N-Out. OMG, their food is the best I have ever had (of this genre).
They are like $tarbuck$ in that they pay their employees a living wage so the folks there care and it shows in every bite. Take a peek at their “Secret” menu…sort of like $tarbuck$ secret language of ordering (I still don’t care what the hell a Vente is, give me a large), You can order hamburgers there in different sorts of ways. I always got my burgers ‘Animal Style’.
http://www.in-n-out.com/secretmenu.asp
to deannie — Interestingly enough, as we were sitting in White Castle eating our 20 hamburgers, we were looking at a very large sign posted by the restaurant. It read something like – we always pay our workers at least $2.50 per hour above minimum wage – and most of our workers who have been here more than one year make at least $10 per hour and with our “great” benefits package that makes their total compensation something like $14.50 per hour. Okay by me, but I still ain’t ever gonna eat there again!
White Castle in the north… Krystal’s in the south… same thing basically.
I used to work at a Krystal’s when in high school. I had the same reaction when driving to Atlanta and seeing the first one. No one else in the family had ever eaten at one before.
Just, FYI, but a Krystal’s just opened a little while ago in San Antonio… I’ve only been once as it is over by Ingram Mall.
David
No way! You CANNOT compare Krystals to White Castle! White Castle is *much* better! I would rather eat a previously frozen (from your local gorcier) White Castle burger than a fresh Krystals 🙂
Just my opinion.
Rob
taste the same