Excellent listen throughout, but you can skip to 17:30 for competition with McDonalds.
If you go to Nashville you can go to a white castle and a krystal burger to compare. theyre only a few miles apart.
nearly identical, but theres definitely a difference
So they’re the same, but different?
Yeah like the same, but different yeah
indeed
Loved Krystal Burger growing up. Seldom got a chance to eat there. Now I live in a place without them.
Of course it was bad for me, but at least it tasted really good. Fast food now is unhealthy and most of it tastes like dogshit. Which is probably a good thing as it keeps me away.
If you haven’t, try white castle. It reminds me of trips with my grandma.
I will keep that in mind!
Gotta shout out the Jersey City White Mana, inventor of the slider. Possibly. That’s what they say at least. I don’t know.
I went there a few weeks ago before a trip to Manhattan and it was legitimately great. Reminded me of Montreal’s DicAnn’s.
How would you compare it to In-N-Out?
World HQ is in Columbus, OH. Represent!
So what’s Columbus like? I find the Midwest interesting.
Columbus is kind of known for not being known for anything.
I’ve lived here for a little over 15 years and various places in Ohio for every bit of my 40 years. There are things to like about it (low cost of living compared to the rest of the country, 4 seasons of weather) and things to not like about it (really, too many people for me – I’m from a rural area, and local and state government are not great). I like that it’s kind of a generic Midwestern town. Plenty of sports to watch if you like that kind of thing.
I think it’s underrated. People are moving here like crazy, so maybe they agree, but it’s causing rents to get out of control. I feel bad for those moving here. It’s a lot less affordable than when I came in 15 years ago.
Good city. Weird. It’s my kinda place though
Not enough third spaces, but I hear that’s everywhere these days
Please don’t judge us by OSU football.
Yeah but white castle tastes like a jock strap that seven NFL players used for a season each without washing.
I take it you don’t like onions.
Not in the capacity they use them lol.
Why do you know what that tastes like?
McDonald’s tastes like compressed napkins. They didn’t always taste that way, but they sure do now.
Oh no McDonald’s definitely isn’t great, but I’ll take a McDouble any day over White Castle
Agreed. McDonald’s sucks but I literally throw up about 1/3 of the time I have White Castle and it doesn’t even taste good.
I’ve only ever had the frozen whitecastle little cheeseburgers, which are basically a ball of transfat and cholesterol. They’re okay though
It’s definitely not the way it used to be. I wonder what’s up with that.
There’s a distinctive flavor difference when McD’s food gets cold. With most food, it just tastes like the same food except it’s cold; but with McDonald’s, it goes from smelling appetizing and tasting decent to smelling horrible and tasting worse. The thing I have noticed is that, in the past decade or so, that window of flavor has gone from a gradient to a really stark dividing line, about 20-30 minutes after the food is cooked.
McDonald’s food has no flavor. It has all been destroyed during their manufacturing and preservation process. What you’re “tasting” is actually scientifically engineered odors that are added to the food with chemicals. When the food gets old, or cold, those smells dissipate and you taste what it actually tastes like. This whole process was outlined in detail in the book Fast Food Nation back in the late 90’s or early 00’s. I imagine that the issue has only gotten worse since then through ever present cost cutting strategies. McDonald’s is absolutely disgusting, and nobody should eat there. It barely qualifies as food.
Actually, in the second edition, Schlosser added an epilogue talking about how much things had changed in a positive direction in the decade or so since he published the original. So if anything, I think the downturn in quality is probably due to the removal of the artificial stuff. Maybe it’s just proving that they never used good ingredients to begin with.
To my knowledge the only positive change is that they stopped using pink slime in their beef, but that is a big step in the right direction.
It’s not about the taste, it’s about the texture.
“What’s that? You wanted a hamburger? Too bad! You get C E L L U L O S E.”
99 PI is brilliant!
Ate those with an a&w rootbeer when i was a kid
