Bests and Worsts Part IV

This is about hamburgers.

I don't eat meat anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't rate hamburgers, because I ate many a burger in the years before I went vegetarian.

Welcome to the Battle of the Whites:

 Best of the Whites: White Tower

White Tower went defunct some time in the 1990s, which is a terrible shame.

A gazillion years ago, there was a White Tower at the Erie-Torresdale El stop (in Philadelphia).  

Often on a trip home from downtown department store shopping, my mom would buy us a burger there.  

They were SOOOO good. In my burger-eating years, I only two burgers at good as White Towers.  One at Fuddruckers, and one at Rossi's Bar & Grill in Hamilton, NJ.  Rossi's used to be in Trenton, which was where I encountered them.  

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 WORST of the Whites: White Castle

 Around the time White Tower went out of business, White Castle places started opening in the Philadelphia area.  

Silly me, I assumed White Castle would be as good as White Tower.

The first time I went, I had no idea that their burgers were less than half the size of a White Tower burger.  They were also kinda cardboard-tasting.  

Never went back.

Amazingly, to me at least, I read that White Castle was founded in 1921, White Tower in 1926.

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Another 'White' burger place: Snow White hamburgers.

I remember a small Snow White hamburger place somewhere in downtown Philly a bazillion years ago. The outside looked like one of those dumpy little restaurants that homeless people on a budget would get their lunch from.  

I never had a Snow White burger.  

According to the 'net, Snow White was founded in 1949, and their burgers were little tiny slider-ey things, a lot like White Castle.