Topic: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (Read 2832 times)

bk · « **on:** November 30, 2016, 12:05:20 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes had cognitive dissonance, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently convinced they absolutely ate at White COWstle.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2016, 12:06:06 AM »

And the word of the day is: QUINQUENNIUM!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2016, 12:17:55 AM »

I KNOW I've never been to either White or West Castle.

TCB · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2016, 01:53:02 AM »

First post after DR George (after BK).

TCB · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2016, 01:55:21 AM »

I ate at White Castle when I lived in Jersey.

TCB · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2016, 01:58:31 AM »

We had a White Castle knock-off in Tacoma back in the Seventies. It didn't last very long.

Michael · « **Reply #6 on:** November 30, 2016, 03:07:12 AM »

Good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2016, 03:08:59 AM »

There is a Krystal restaurant (Similar to White Castle I am told)
about 20 miles from where I live. Driven by there many times in the past 20 years or so and have never stopped there.

Michael · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2016, 03:10:27 AM »

I have tried once a frozen White Castle burger. Not bad, but sure a fresh one is better.

Laura · « **Reply #9 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:29:17 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #10 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:30:50 AM »

I ate at a White Castle once. My husband from Chicago talked an talked about White Castle. So when we were back east, we stopped at one.

All I remember is that on the way to the table, a soda tipped over and soaked a couple of the burgers. Those were the ones I ate. They were awful.

Laura · « **Reply #11 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:31:51 AM »

Dear BK,

Are you going to do any more Outside the Box musicals? Because I think you should do "The Birds." Wouldn't that make a great musical?

Laura · « **Reply #12 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:45:09 AM »

Today I am going hiking. I'll see how the foot does. It is still sore.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:51:38 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:54:44 AM »

Around 9:00 I will begin my West Side prergrinations. First stop, West Side Radiology at Columbus Circle for this X-ray. Then, Music Theatre International.

Once I'm back here, I have work on my desk. I'm still waffling about a decision I made in this new score.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:56:21 AM »

I heard from my brother Randy. The move is accomplished and he and Jo are in their new home. He tells me my bedroom is ready. I told him I'd be there when the swimming pool was ready.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 30, 2016, 04:58:23 AM »

DR George, that's a great photo of you in costume.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:02:04 AM »

Good morning, all.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:02:20 AM »

I needed to sleep for another hour. Maybe I'll nap this afternoon.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:06:04 AM »

Today's an at-home day, but it includes having the chimney cleaners coming around 2:30 in the afternoon. I have to be ready for them by having the area in front of the fireplace and the area in the basement cleared so they can have their fun. I'll be sure to let you all know if any of them talk in Cockney accents and dance on the rooftop.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:09:29 AM »

I'm afraid to think what kind of cognitive dissonance you get when some of these people sit down at the piano.

FJL · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:29:40 AM »

What a great in-costume photo of George in last night's posts!

John G. · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:30:19 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #23 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:32:16 AM »

I love me some White Castle. I try to get there every time I get back to Louisville.

Michael, the frozen version lacks the pickle, which makes a world of difference in the flavor. And sadly, Krystal is a poor substitute.

John G. · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:32:37 AM »

Great photo, George.

John G. · « **Reply #25 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:34:30 AM »

Quote from: Laura on November 30, 2016, 04:31:51 AM

Dear BK,

Are you going to do any more Outside the Box musicals? Because I think you should do "The Birds." Wouldn't that make a great musical?

DR Laura, do you get overrun with grackles in the fall? It feels like a scene out of The Birds here, too.

John G. · « **Reply #26 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:42:37 AM »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VDinoNRC49c

A short Wes Anderson Christmas film.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:48:18 AM »

BK: O. M. G.

White Castle and West Castle. As a child of the Midwest AND Los Angeles, I totally know the score on this.

West Castle appeared out of nowhere one day. I want to say it was in the late seventies when I was living in Beverly Hills, because had I still been in Hollywood, I would have been at that one every day gorging myself. I remember it being on a southeast corner, and the ad says Las Palmas so I shan't argue with it. When I heard about it (it was on the radio -- some DJ or news person was getting a bag of them delivered) I was thrilled, and the first one I actually got to was the Van Nuys one which on that weekend afternoon (it might have been their opening week) was overrun with an enthusiastic crowd of White Castle fans. They had to have done great business for a while.

I never knew the Woodland Hills one, but I can tell you that the "coming" Long Beach one was on PCH just east/southeast of the big traffic circle. I was driving my parents around on one of their visits and we turned right in and had a meal there.

At some point I found them all gone, and I vaguely remember hearing it was because of White Castle. It's kind of too bad, because White Castle had NEVER expanded much past the Midwest (I think St. Louis and Minneapolis were about as far west as they went). Maybe if West Castle hadn't so blatantly copied everything...

I see on White Castle's website that they have something in Las Vegas now, but Vegas is always a unique situation for any company, and they still haven't expanded much beyond their original Midwest territory. Fortunately, I can get to a couple of them in the Bronx and in New Jersey. (There were rumors for a while about them being "just about to" come to Connecticut, but ... no such thing.)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #28 on:** November 30, 2016, 05:56:18 AM »

The frozen ones are in all the stores now, and if you're careful with them you can reasonably recreate them at home and satisfy that craving.

As John G. says, there's no pickle so you must get some small thin dill slices and add it. Do the microwaving first, then add the pickle and a very tiny dash of ketchup and mustard.

(The White Castle stores themselves are inconsistent on the ketchup and mustard thing. Some add nothing, some add ketchup, but I found the tastiest ones at the places where they add a tiny bit of both.)

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** November 30, 2016, 06:01:01 AM »

I've been to a Krystal in north Florida, and hell, I'd probably go there occasionally if I lived there -- but again as John G. says, they are not a GOOD White Castle imitator.

But here's another imitator that few people know about these days, that did wonderful business in the Southeast during the 1960s, and I remember being surprised to find one in Cleveland in the early 1970s: Royal Castle. It was sublime. They had, like, ten items on the menu, and the main things were the hamburgers/cheeseburgers, a wonderful bowl of chili, the cold drink was Birch Beer in frosted mugs (no Coke or Pepsi), and they had a cinnamon roll that turned me on to cinnamon rolls for life. Long gone, even from most people's memories which is sad. They are at the top of the list of fast food chains I miss the most.

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