White Castle experimenting with noodles and barbecue

​During the Great Depression, White Castle hamburgers — founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921 — was one of the few culinary success stories of that troubled era. The founders, Walter A. Anderson and short-order cook Edgar Waldo “Billy Ingram,” created the perfect 5-cent square hamburger. Hungry, broke customers could buy them by the bagful.

Today, White Castle — based in Columbus, Ohio, since Ingram moved the company headquarters out of Kansas in 1933 — is experimenting with some different culinary concepts, including pulled-pork carnitas and cornbread.