This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

As anyone who has ever been to a White Castle restaurant knows,

the food is... How do I put this?

It's never going to be considered classic five-star food,

but you know what you're getting when you go there.

Jeremy Brooks has been a die-hard Whitecastle fan ever since going regularly as a kid with

his dad.

That's either something you're going to love or you cannot stand.

For starters, the patties are square, but it's kind of their thing, with five holes in each patty, and they're small, too.

Two and a half inch sliders just big enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

And since they're steamed on a bed of onions, everything is infused with this very specific

onion-esque flavor.

Plus you get the steam buns too, so they're nice and soft.

You can basically just like squish it in your hand and just

shove in your mouth if you want. Like the man said you either love it or you hate it.

I happen to love it and I still do 40 plus years later.

If you've never been to a White Castle though, that's not entirely surprising.

They're not exactly easy to come by.

That's reporter producer Mackenzie Martin, who first dug into this story for the

K.C. U.R. Studios podcast of People's History of Kansas City. But that

obscurity is also kind of White Castle's thing. They're only in the US and your state probably

doesn't have any. If it does, even just making it there can sometimes be

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