What Happens When Things Get Rowdy at White Castle
I just couldn’t ignore this comment that Bronx Briner Girl posted about the White Castle on 8th Ave. btw. 36+37th: ”The fun begins when the recording plays, reminding patrons that there is no loitering permitted on the premises, that if they have not purchased food they will be removed forcibly by the police department. When things really get rowdy, an alert sounds and the manager makes an audible announcement. Then the cops show up and escort the offenders off the premises.” Really? Have you seen this happen? That’s awesome. I ate there once without incident.
Posted: 4:00 pm, January 8th, 2009 under Comment of the Day.
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What really kills ya is the food. :(
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One can only imagine this happens when the Chuckies visit …..Tingtong stealing paper napkins…..Doc ordering his 24 slider breakfast….tingtong offering extras outside the mens bog….then they flee to their `73 VW van.
Bit like Ratso Rizzo and his lover.
But with Fuckwits
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I’ve seen White Castle riots before. They were back when I was a lot younger at the White Castle on Hempstead Tpke in East Meadow, LI. Everybody in there was drunk or just released from the prison across the street. It was a wild scene. Open 24 hours, so the fun never stopped.
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The White Castle in Jersey City had a mini-police stand behind the counter. I’ve seen similar set-ups at other Jersey WCs. What is it about White Castle that inspires people to criminal behavior?
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Gotta love white castle. I once tried to eat 25 in 40 min, and puked in the parking lot at 19 1/2–at the WC in Union New Jersey! Good times! After boycotting WC for about a decade, I started ordering a box of frozen cheeseburgers every now and then from Fresh Direct…Except now, I try to savor the flavor by eating only 1 or 2 for a latenight snack…
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Marie I know the white castle in jc you are talking about. Its located right by the indian bazaar. That white castle is scary…and many times I found the employees scarier than the customers. :(
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Maybe because White Castles are pretty much open 24 hours and are craved by pot heads and alcoholics…
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I used to work around there- I went there once and it was so ghetto. This guy came in with a fur coat on, hat, walking with a limp and cane and smoking a cigarette- my co worker and I were like okay…Never went back ;)
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As I said, that White Castle is a FREAK SHOW. I have also eaten at the WC on Hempstead Tpke, and the one on Queens Blvd, and while all have, shall we say, eccentric customers, the one on 8th avenue takes the cake (and/or slider). Also, in response to Lou, you say Pot Heads/Alcoholics with such a negative tone…
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Yeah, I do love WC, however, I will only do the drive through. I just can’t bring myself to actually go inside one. I also really love the fact when it comes to the fries and onion rings you either can get a regular one or for 10 cents more, you can get a sack of them which is like 3 times the amount.
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I do the drive thru in the jersey city WC and there is always a homeless person harassing you for change standing right next to the cashier window.
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My first WC experience was the Hempstead Tpke one, at 3 in the morning with three other drunken white suburban kids. It looked like it had seen a few rowdy incidents. I have heard of fights at the Bayside WC, also late in the night/early morning.
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Oh I miss the Hempstead Tpke one. It was right by that awesome Dunkin Donuts. What a combo. The WC is Lynbrook is kinda scary but it still pales in comparison to the 8th Ave one.
The one in Astoria, however, is a White Castle nirvana….
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Wow, I got singled out for special treatment. Thanks!
I don’t know how to sensitively, delicately state this without offending someone, so I do apologize to recovering heroin addicts out there who are really trying to recover…. but here goes:
Everyone who works on Eighth Avenue between 34th and 40th is subjected to a daily freak show of people who are homeless, strung out on something, homeless and strung out… There’s a methadone clinic right around the corner. The neighborhood has a higher concentration of panhandlers than any other I know of.
I am _not_ making the White Castle stuff up, I swear! It’s just an older incident.
It usually only takes one officer entering the WC to send loitering groups scattering to the street. When I first started working on 38th back in 2004, you didn’t want to eat in the WC because it literally reeked. It was homeless haven: cheap coffee, empty tables and convenient to public transportation and there were at least two more adult video stores on the strip. I used to go in, get my murder burgers and then slink back to my office. The one time that I did eat in that restaurant, I heard the infamous announcement, and saw the scatter!
I’ve been in the store maybe twice in the past six months and I haven’t witnessed anything. The management seems to have things under control. Walking back down the street to my office from Pick-a-Pita, on the other hand… ;-)
And the White Castles in the Bronx are…
Just fill in the blanks, Midtown Lunch Readers.
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This is a gem of a White Castle. I’ve taken food to go from here on a number of occassions over the years. Situated on the Avenue of Broken Dreams (8th between 34 and Port Authority) it doubles as a methadone clinic and the wait in line is always entertaining just try to not loose your appetite. Its the ghettoest fast food resturant I’ve been in but you could probably say that about every White Castle and the neighborhood they are set up in. But god dammit its a White Castle and the only one in Manhattan from what I know. There used to be one on 34th Street that was nicer that closed down a few years back. White Castle is great I don’t care what people say you just got to be in the mood for it (alcohol helps).
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I have been to the WC on the side of the Bruckner, and have literally stopped and thought “hmm, what’s safer, going inside and getting caught in a robbery, or doing the drive through and being pinned down in a drive-by or a car jacking?” Maybe that’s why the potheads like it - its better if you dont over think it, and just cast your fate to the winds.
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I have never eaten at the 8th Ave White Castle WIHOUT some kind of incident. Worst I’ve witness was a creep who put his hand in the pants of a girl who was waiting in line, and then ran away.
The Jersey City location is downright genteel in comparison, despite the bulletproof lexan panels separating the kitchen from the dining room, and the one cashier with the weird puffy hand.
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Clinton Hill WC is pretty solid.
honorable mention to the one across the street from Queens Center Mall and the Bed Stuy/East Williamsburg one.
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Now you guys have me excited. I’m going to get some garlic, a cross, and some kevlar and head over there.
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It was very very quiet when I went at noon, but do go. Do they have No Loitering signs that prohibit sleeping at every White Castle location?
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For your edification, McBeagle, I have not nor ever will eat at A “White Castle,” so-called. I would gnaw my own arm off before I would consume steamed animal matter coated with cheap rehydrated onions.
I am sure they are popular in your native Pittsburgh, though. And fits well within the budget of you and your fellow matress deliverymen.
Red Robin’s burgers are top quality and give you great value for your money.
Save up so that you might — one day — enjoy one.
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Does this WC still serve Church’s chicken?….I think the fact that this WC is also a Church’s chicken, and the ghettoness related to Church’s, has been overlooked.
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My dearest dombrooks:
Your intolerant and “politically incorrect” statement has been duly noted.
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Harry your comment made me laugh so much. This post is funny!
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While we’re on the subject of WC, I must once again sing praises of the White Castle Surf N’ Turf.
If you have not tried this “sandwich,” you have not lived. It’s basically a double cheeseburger, on a three layer bun (big mac style), with layer of fried fish thrown in for good measure. It’s easily the most disgusting thing I’ve ever put in my mouth (conceptually speaking), but goddamn, it’s delicious.
Before you run out and try one, it’s important to remember to shovel this thing into your mouth before you smell it. Otherwise your chances of making it are horribly slim.
It’s also important to carefully judge the venue before ordering one, as all White Castles are not created equal (as seen above). I can vouch for the relative safety of the Surf N’ Turf at the Brooklyn, Fort Hamilton Parkway and Brooklyn, Fourth Avenue locations. However, after rolling the dice at the Union NJ location, I almost wound up in the hospital. As a general rule of thumb, I’ll test drive a regular slyder first, in order to get a feel for what I’m up against.
I’ve never been to the 8th Avenue Manhattan location, but I promise I will scout it out, and check out their Surf N’ Turf. Perhaps a Midtown Luncher meet up is in order so that everyone can take the plunge, and feel the dizzying high that comes when you jeopardize your very existence for the cheap thrill of a fastfood sandwich of nightmarish design.
Interestingly enough, this 390 calorie slyder is only available in NY, NJ, CT and DE. I have to assume it’s illegal everywhere else. Proceed with caution.
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Chip Beef, as to your comments about the WC Surf N’ Turf:
“Before you run out and try one, it’s important to remember to shovel this thing into your mouth before you smell it. Otherwise your chances of making it are horribly slim.”
I guess one could say that, if you got by the smell, you’d have it licked!
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I much prefer Red Robin’s burgers because me and Hogzilla like to shove as many seasoned fries is our mouth as we can and at Red Robin they keep them coming. If they don’t I tell our waiter I will gnaw off his arm. I didn’t get to these size 52 trousers without the help of the seasoned fries - LOL.
The wife is a very handsome woman she looks like Ernest Borgnine in sweatpants with burger juice all over her kisser. -
Sadly, I get indigestion just walking by that place… Crowded or not…
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Yeah the customers in that White Castle were demented circus freaks! Circa 2000-2001 (I have not been there recently) However their white castle burgers were always delicious.
Anyone who works/lives around there remember when they caught the homeless dude who was going to the Alpine Gourmet buffet and carrying in bottles of his sht and piss and sprinkling them on the open buffett?! I haven’t been able to eat at an open buffet since. NYPost interviewed people saying “gee I thought it tasted funny”…
And I didn’t post it in the other thread but I haven’t been able to eat at that Pakistan Express place for years…ate there once in the basement and my curry was full of bones, blech.
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sorry to rain on the parade… WC on 8th Ave has been closed. in fact, the entire block has been shut down due to future construction projects.
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@Big Willie- a friend of mine walked by there yesterday and said WC, Dunkin Donuts, and Taco Bell are still open
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little willie, to corroborate what zach just said, plenty of people enjoying the wonders of white castle in the restaurant when i walked past last night around 7:30.
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The Wc yall are talking about Lmao I work there. The people that come in there are homeless crackheads and just plain old crazy! I have been cuss’d out b4 by many of them and I ignore them Or just stand there and laugh. The recording we have in there is called west tech interactive its sooo funny my co-worker and I crack-up! Just today one of the managers got cuss’d out by a man sleeping in there smh…Not a safe place too work at nite that is why I work an early shift!
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I just love the 2x thick bullet glass and that you have to get buzzed into the bathroom
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Anyone who would dare to eat the stuff served at this White Castle DESERVES to be escorted out by the New Yawk City’s finest and then placed into a holding tank until such time that they can receive their first meal of JAIL FOOD, which will be substantially better.
But, be aware that the “DocChuck” and “DocSuck” impostors above are Louise Chiffonade Brescia (from Brooklyn) and Melissa Jerzee Tomato (from New Joisy), whom have been kicked off of most other websites.
The REAL “DocChuck” only posts using his “signed-in” handle.
Have a great day, White Castle eaters — LOL!
Bah, Murder burgers aint got nothing on Chuck E Cheese! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1y3_bRvu_c