Long before Harold & Kumar found White Castle, we 70s rockers/stoners kept them in business. Nothing better than a 6-pack of sliders at 3:00am after a night out. For those of you not in the know, White Castle is a fast-food chain specializing in tiny little cheeseburgers you can eat in a single bite (if you have a big mouth like me). They’re called sliders as they will slide right through you too.
Poco is still around! Yes, yes, bearded dragon lizards are not carnivores, but they also don’t breath fire and what better way to fuel the internal furnace of Poco then with White Castle sliders? Nothing. Just be thankful the flames are coming out his mouth…
Got my appetite for Molly Hatchet whet the other day so I found this one for today’s comic. I have to be in the mood for Hatchet’s southern fried rock, but when I am, the car stereo is cranked to the max!
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White Castles are great…until the farting starts. UGH!!!
Unfortunately, the last time I ate a bunch of sliders, it was just after drinking a ton of beer at a Chicago White Sox baseball game and the mixture of bad ballpark beer and greasy sliders made for a really nasty puke session after getting home.
Once you puke something, you never eat it again. Which is why I never have Green Giant Broccoli with cheese nowadays…
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Oh man! Nothing was better that sliders. The only thing that you could fill your munchie tummy on for a buck! In the south west now, and the only way to get them is in the frozen food section at the store. Blasphemy I tell ya! mmmmm and an RC cola. Thems were da daze!
Holy crap! RC Cola! My best friend and I when we’d get our standard Friday night pizza when I was like 15/16 years old, we’d always get a 6-pack of RC to wash down the pizza with. I have long had a Mountain Dew addiction, but this pizza place did not sell it, so we went with the RC.
Now, had I thought ahead, I could have brought my own Mountain Dew, but I was only 15…
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Good to see Poco back. Can’t wait to see what this week has in store for the gang.
Unfortunately we don’t have any White Castles in Texas, that I know of. If we do they’ve got them too well hid. However we did get a chain thru called Krystal’s that had sliders, and advertised their selves as like “White Castle” and man those things were horrible. Folks from Cali and up north that had the opportunity to enjoy White Castle said they were nothing like them. To say the least Krystal’s opened and closed in the same year here.
So now that my older bro is living in Chicago I’m hoping one of my trips up to visit will result in my experiencing a true White Castle slider. Until then my pallet will have to only dream.
It amazes me how regional some things are. I’ve lived in Illinois all my life, so that’s pretty much all I know. I’ve traveled a lot, but never thought to look for a White Castle in Texas. Hmmm… Next time I’m in Houston, I’ll look.
You have to experience a slider once in your life. Kinda disgusting looking but oh, so good to eat. If you make it up this way, I’ll pop for a deep dish pizza too. THAT is the ultimate Chicago experience.
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krystals were founded on the concept of ripping off white castle actually.
rody davenport jr, one of the original founders of krystal, used to go to white castles to take notes, and basically commit corporate espionage.
comparing a krystal slider, to a white castle slyder is indeed blasphemy. worse are when people consider hardee’s/carls jr sliders to the whit ecastle original….
things to remember, WC is the OLDEST fast food chain in america. predating McDonalds signifigantly. white castle INVENTED fast food.
Damn Poco is such a cute little thing…probably because he’s a cartoon…
Also, is it true that White Castle burgers have so much fat and calories that they mess up with your digestion system?
Just about any fast food is full of grease or fat that they’re absolutely horrible for you. Which explains why America is such a fat-ass country. We really just don’t think about it.
I love drawing Poco…he’s just fun.
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I know, but I heard real horror stories regarding digestion with White Castle.
When I lived in Chicago, I used to go to the White Castle (I think) in Bucktown for thier disgusting yet compelling banana shake (I think) and kinda soggy gross fries (I think). Obviously my memory of it isn’t great, but what IS it about White Castle that isn’t exactly…. you know….. good, but that gets you coming back again and again?
Seems your memory is about as good as mine! 🙂
I know, what is it with “bad” food that is so good? They’re nothing but a tiny piece of “meat” with holes in it, onions, salt, grease and cheese. But yum…
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I can remember having White Castle once in my life. Maybe twice. So I don’t really remember what they taste like. My friends and I liked to hit diners late at night. I am a Jersey Girl after all 😉
Ah, I’ve walked the Jersey shore and had my fill of seagulls and Boardwalk vendors. Nice to visit, but I miss my miles and miles of flat corn filled fields of Illinois!
Diners! Man, that takes me back. We use to stop at roadside diners when we visited my grandparents farm back in the day. You’d watch the food being made right in front of you and the milk shakes were to die for. Plus, they were always friendly folks there.
Of course, that was like 1966, so a few things have changed since then…
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Count yourself lucky, girlfriend. Last time I had White Castle, half my colon blew out through…well…you know where.
White Castle and I do not agree. Not on anything.
I’ve hit that age where just about ANY fast food doesn’t agree with me. Damn this aging process!
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sadly, I have not yet tried a white castle hamburger… not that I remember. None of ’em left around here.
When I pick you up at the airport for the convention, I’ll have a 6-pack ready for you. If you don’t like them, I’ll munch ’em!
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Hopped over here from “Pinkerton”. (Hi, Mike!) I live in Indianapolis, which is practically WC Central. (They have a regional administration/distribution center here.) There are a couple within walking distance, but they’re a taste that I just never acquired.
Welcome Pinkerton Fans!
Yeah, like anything you develop a taste for it or not. I can take them or leave them. But for a quickie snack, they are great!
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The only way I can get WC is if I go back home to Hoosier land. Or find them frozen at the store. They have Krystals down here that are close but just not quite a WC.
You’re the second person to mention Krystals… now I’m the one going to Google and discovering another fast food joint!
Frozen in the store is not quite the same… that’s true with any product like that.
No White Castles in the Great White North (ironic isn’t it?). My husband is from New Jersey though and he’s always insisted I probably shouldn’t go there. LOL. 🙂 I probably will one day though, just to say I experienced it!
I have a general rule in my life: I’ll try just about anything once. Mainly to say I did it.
Eating White Castle cheeseburgers falls into that category. I’m not a huge fan of them, but I’ve done it.
I have compile a list of things I’ve done in my life… once… and it’s actually kinda cool and scary at the same time. I’m lucky to be alive as I’ve done some, apparently, stupid things in my life.
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Unfortunately I can’t contribute anything to the White Castle discussion (apart from remembering how one of the Mads’ roadies went out for supplies somewhere vaguely on your patch and brought back a boatload of bags of those minuscule burgers), since I’ve never eaten one (not even on the aforementioned tour, since I was still veg at the time). But what I *can* say is that I’ve just been looking back over a folder-ful of saved 1977 stuff – daily strips, ‘band Polaroids’, special one-offs and page-top banners (Nekkid Lorraine… Jeff!Son!of!Odin!… stoner Halloween pumpkins…) – and DUDE YOU DO NOT REALISE HOW AWESOME YOU ARE. Seriously. Give yourself a pat on the back and a can of Chicago beer or whatever floats your boat, because you are doing FANTASTIC work and you keep on improving and I truly do believe you’re carving a unique niche for yourself in the comix world even though it’s still early days. Nuff said.
First, thank you! A big smile is now parting my face!
It is funny, but I never know how to react to such glowing compliments like this. The egotist in me goes “Damn straight! Because I’m fuckin’ great!” But then the modest side of me wants to return the compliment to those offering it… like “You rock too!” (and you do).
But I have to say, it seems that on my worst days, I will get an email or comment like this and it just turns my whole world around, so I have to thank you all for that.
Yeah, 1977 is growing slowly every month and one of these days the bell curve will take that big swing upwards (hopefully) and I’ll ride that wave while it lasts. I’m glad to have you along for the ride, man! If it weren’t for people like you, I’d given this up a long time ago.
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The last time I went to WC was back in 1987. It was right off of Main St. in Pittsfield MA. I could be wrong (I don’t think so) but Hardee’s was just next door to it. For a while I thought WC (castle frotage) was for kids and not the “place” to be seen. However, while workin’ for Pizza Hut I found the joy’s of “Oregano” and in doing so I remember wandered in to WC one day, ordered the cheapest thing (six slyders) and the next thing found myself on a Peter Pan bus back to Pittsfield from Westfield (40 Miles away from home) Broke when I got home, but, best day I ever had 😛