Clearly living in Ohio has been harder on John Scalzi that he’s willing to admit; he recently bought into the myth that Midwesterners actually like White Castle hamburgers.
As a native Midwesterner, let me set the record straight. Nobody in the Midwest really likes White Castle hamburgers. Nobody. They are eaten for three, and only three, reasons: You are starving to death and White Castle is the only thing open/you can afford; the most common reason, you have never eaten at a White Castle and are dying to find out if they are as bad as everybody says; or, you are dragging a friend there for the first time to torture them, and they aren’t going to eat a “slider” unless you do.
Those people who claim they love White Castle? Paid shills or pranksters, in my opinion. Or they came from somewhere else.
No, for my money, the local regional Weird Food that nobody else in the nation has the stones to appreciate is Vernor’s. At least in Michigan; I have no idea what those oddballs in Ohio eat. Stuckey’s takeout, probably.
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There’s a significant fan base for Vernor’s in Upstate New York, actually. Whether that qualifies Upstate New York as “midwest” is probably the basis for an interesting and fun blog discussion that I would pay money to avoid.
White Castle’s hamburgers occupy a weird spot in my mind. They aren’t classed as “hamburgers”, exactly. They’re Something Else.
Currently every once in a long while I get the urge for them. This is after five years of NOT eating them because of three months spent craving little else. (Pregnancy does weird things to the brain.)
I wouldn’t say I love them, but they are their own thing and when one craves that particular thing there is no real substitute. The psychology of why one would want one is probably somewhere around why people eat dirt, though.
mythago hon -
There actually IS a fourth reason … you’re stoned, drunk, or both. Because those are the only times you can start to think “you know, they are not THAT bad, really”.
Course, I can’t really talk, as I have a huge weakness for McD’s Filet-o-Fish (not to mention one of their hamburgers with extra pickles, and the sausage and egg mcmufffin … I’m a bad, bad girl)
OMG. How can you say they aren’t good? They are amazing. More than amazing, heaven.
Sarah, this will shock people who know me, but I honestly don’t think I have ever been that drunk.
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