Slider Stuffing

The Chicago Sun-Times is offering a suggestion that could vastly improve your Thanksgiving meal, or turn this year's family gathering into a disaster of Michael Bay proportions. Depending on your point of view. Behold, the recipe for slider stuffing, which calls for "18 White Castle hamburgers (no pickles), chopped into 1-inch pieces," along with more usual suspects like button mushrooms, chicken stock, butter, onions, celery and sage.

Nutrition facts per serving: 162 calories, 10 g fat, 5 g saturated fat, 22 mg cholesterol, 13 g carbohydrates, 6 g protein, 259 mg sodium, 1 g fiber

Oddly, the recipe does not seem to clarify what the size of a serving is, just that the recipe makes 12 of them. Whatever they may be.

Article about the couple who came up with this wonder/abomination in Chicago Sun-Times

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ackpht

Note also that there are no White Castle franchises, only corporate-owned restaurants, and they have this thing about borrowing money or plunking down a restaurant far away from their existing ones- they absolutely will not.

Seems a shame ‘cuz a White Castle restaurant here in California would be a license to print money.

Hence the Porcelain Kingdoms are spreading across America at a snail’s pace. Heaven knows how long NZ will have to wait.
- Gilbert Wham
  
  So that’s why I can’t have one here in Englandland, then? Bah. I could go a sack of tiny, greasy burgers about now…
Boba Fett Diop

Great…now I’m not only missing American Thanksgiving, I’m missing White Castle too.
mdh

the logical conclusion to this is a turduckastlen – sliders in a duck in a chicken in a turkey
Bender

I’ve made this version of stuffing for almost 15 years. Good stuff(ing)!
NoahRodenbeek

this recipe made me jizz in my pants.
Matt Deckard

Yeah White Castle put out this recipe a long time ago, at least 10 years I think. I’ve had it and it’s exactly as delicious as you think it would be – if you love White Castle, you’ll love it, and if you hate White Castle, you’ll hate it.
jaytkay

It’s only good if you are serving Thanksgiving dinner at 3AM.
mcn

I read this as “spider stuffing” and I really appreciated the lede on that one.
kytyn

I wouldn’t trust those nutrition facts. A White Castle burger is 140 calories: (140 calories x 18) / 12 servings = 210 calories / serving — and that’s just for the burger part of the ingredients. The butter will add another 34 calories per serving. Probably closer to 262 than 162…
monkey

when the recipe came out several years ago, we compared the ingredients by weight to a standard recipe for sausage stuffing and it came out with less calories. after all a slider is nothing more than meat, steamed onion bits and bread.

alas, i have not try the stuffing, i make a bohemian stuffing with crackers, garlic and eggs. mmmm…. tasty!
Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Eeeeesh, White Castle burgers.

There’s a White Castle just a couple of blocks away from me, but I have yet to eat an entire slider and keep it down. The idea of making them into Thanksgiving turkey stuffing is eldritch and terrible.
jeepercreepers

If you fry your bird like I do you could roll this into balls, batter it then fry it. I did this with regular stuffing one year and it we delicious.
adamnvillani

U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Anonymous

I don’t know from white castle, but that’s not a slider, that’s a mini hamburger.

If it’s like a regular hamburger only smaller, then it’s a just a mini hamburger.
A slider is a very specific type of sandwich that resembles a mini hamburger.

To make a slider, you put some onions and maybe some pickles on a very hot grill, then when they’re good and hot, you put a thin slice of beef – not a ground beef patty – on top of the onions. You let the steam from the onions cook the beef. You transfer it directly to a mini burger bun so that the bun has time to absorb some of the onion steam.
Anonymous

“Harold and Kumar go to Thanksgiving” would make a pretty awesome movie.
Sean Blueart

I’m reading the Michael Bay reference as ambiguous. Do you mean to say that Michael Bay makes disaster movies with lots of explosions, or that Michael Bay’s films are disasters because he doesn’t know how to make a decent film? Kindly disambiguate.
- Maggie Koerth-Baker
  
  To be read as: Michael Bay makes movies about disasters and involving lots of explosions. Both of which I suspect to be true of this stuffing.
  - Sean Blueart
    
    Maggie, thank you. I clearly get your interpretation and I hope you will forgive me for compulsively taking any pallid opportunity I can to decry Michael Bay’s extremely limited powers as an artist.
    
    In gratitude for the new association you have bestowed, the next time I suffer intestinal distress, I shall think of the films of Michael Bay, and it’s worthy spawn, J.J. Abrams “Star Trek”.
    
    Michael Bay films, Abram’s profoundly failed Star Trek opportunity, and White Castle stuffing, all speaking volumes of hurt to me.
Nougat

A “friend” gave me a copy of the White Castle cookbook. Reading recipes for White Castle soup, White Castle mincemeat pie etc. is a great appetite suppressant.
apoxia

We don’t have Whitecastle in NZ. Maybe there’s a KFC equivalent. That would go down well here. Then again we don’t have thanksgiving either, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
- keef
  
  You can get White Castle sliders in the frozen food section of some supermarkets. They’re not nearly as “good” as straight from an actual White Castle, but I bet they would work fine for this stuffing recipe.
- Freddie Freelance
  
  Apoxia, there is no equivalent to White Castle; imagine a small burger, 2″x2″x1/8″ thick with 5 small holes in the patty (“The holes are Free!”) made of a very finely ground beef, almost the texture of a pate or forcemeat, that’s steamed on a bed of Chopped Onions while topped with it’s own bottom & top Bun. This is usually served with Pickles and Catsup or Mustard, and you usually eat lots of them (“Buy’em by the Sack!”) after the bars close. The closest NZ thing I can compare them to is a Meat Pie in Pea Soup, without the Pea Soup.
Anonymous

Will Harold and Kumar ride in with Patrick Harris on a unicorn and give me shrooms?
bcsizemo

Actually this is somewhat similar to my parents recipe for what we call dressing. Minus the meat.

It’s basically bread, an egg or two, butter, chicken stock, and a ton of sage (along with a few other spices). Make into patties, and then fry. Yes fry.

Delicious. I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t like them.
Boba Fett Diop

Annonymous @19,
What you are describing is a slider, but White Castle pretty much invented both the sandwich and the term (although they now have to use “Slyder” as the trademark term because “Slider” has entered common usage). White Castle was also the first fast food chain restaurant in America.