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# White Castle
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3789/
- Published: 2006-01-30T19:45:19.000Z
- Updated: 2006-01-30T19:45:19.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

During my young adult days in the Detroit area, I drunkenly ate more [White Castle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%5FCastle%5F%28restaurant%29?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) hamburgers than my arteries care to remember. I never realized I was eating from history, until I saw [this piece](http://www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1998/01/21review.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) that claims WC blazed the path for McDonald's and Co. Excerpt:

> White Castle did not invent the hamburger, \[David\] Hogan \[author of *White Castle and the Creation of American Food*\] writes, but made it palatable to Americans wary of ground meat in the age of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." White Castle co-founder Billy Ingram reassured customers that White Castle served quality burgers by situating grills in full view of customers; by stressing cleanliness and only hiring men with "high personal hygiene"; and by proving the nutritional value of the burgers through commissioned "studies." (In one, a student lived for 13 weeks on only White Castle burgers and water -- he ate about 20 burgers a day and thrived.)

Aside: White Castle hamburgers have five holes in them. An old joke ran, "You know why White Castle hamburgers have five holes in them? Because it takes five bullets to kill a rat."

(The real answer, incidentally, is, "To facilitate steaming."