"Harold and Kumar must be weeping for joy somewhere. America's first fast food burger chain, White Castle, has just reached an almost unfathomable milestone. Since 1921, White Castle has sold 30 billion sliders. That works out to over 288 million sliders every year for the past 104 years. Aside from a short-lived foray into a handful of other countries, nearly all of these burgers were sold in the United States."
"If you stacked all of those burgers on top of each other, it would stretch 1.45 million miles into the sky. The moon is just under 239,000 miles away, so that White Castle slider stack is equal to about six trips up there. If you're more into road trips than moon flights, compare it to a drive down Route 20, America's longest highway at 3,365 miles. White Castle's slider chain could make the drive from Newport, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts about 431 times."
White Castle has sold 30 billion sliders since 1921, averaging about 288 million sliders per year and selling nearly all within the United States. At a U.S. population of 342 million, that equals approximately 88 sliders per American. Relative to an 8 billion global population, the total amounts to roughly a four-pack per person. Stacked end to end, the sliders would reach about 1.45 million miles skyward, roughly six round trips to the moon. The total could traverse Route 20 about 431 times and circle the Earth 60 times, covering approximately 68 square miles.
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