White Castle Addict: We're Gonna Need A Bigger Booth

Perhaps this White Castle-themed ball chair would suffice

Perhaps when you no longer fit into the seats that your favorite fast food restaurant provides, it's time to cut back on the stuff. Or maybe it's time to launch a campaign for bigger seats! 64-year-old, 290-pound White Castle fanatic Martin Kessman says back in 2009 he walked into his local White Castle to find stationary booths that he barely fit into—he left that day limping out of the restaurant after banging his knee on the table. Instead of finding the seats to be aspirational, he sent a letter to the corporate offices hoping for change on their end. According to the NY Post, the company replied with three “very condescending letters," along with coupons for free burgers, and a promise to expand the seats, even sending specs.

Now Kessman has filed a lawsuit, right here in Manhattan, since no change has been made in the two and a half years since the promise, which was as empty as the calories in the bun his burgers were served on. His suit says that the chain’s booths "violate the civil rights of fat people."

The ordeal hasn't stopped his appetite for a Crave Case, however, but despite being able to "wedge" himself into the booths, he now sends his wife, saying, "I did not want to set foot into the store. Any subsequent trips to the store have been made by my wife—I have been like an outcast.”

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By Jen Carlson in Food on September 11, 2011 3:35 PM

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Turanga

Perhaps he should keep sending his wife and just become bed ridden... lots of space there.

BotanistPrime

"Any subsequent trips to the store have been made by my wife"

It is this sort of enabling behavior that lets people get too fat to walk. In about 6 months I bet this wife also has to wipe his ass and vacuum the crumbs out from between his fat rolls after complaints from the neighbors about the smell

kimpossibble

Last time I checked, "fatass" was not a protected class.

garnetlove

I think I know what I want for lunch today.

whitecastlerock

This guy is trying to smear White Castle? Fuck Him...

Emmily_Litella

Hey Whiney McFatty, go jump in the lake.

CurmudgeonNYC

And cause a tidal wave? Wont you think of the children? #3rdgradefatjokes

felixthecat

Fat Fuck is eating animals and contributing to the destruction of this planet and the suffering and deaths of animals and contributing to world hunger. Fat fuck has no rights. probably have to pay for his viagra pills and his liptor pills.

Peanut_Butter

Good to know.

OleS

Um...

Kevin_Kramers

When you get to the point where you're too f*cking fat to fit into a fast food restaurant's booth... Maybe its time to drop some weight...

JamesF

Why does being obese make him bang his knee into the table so hard he limps? Is his knee fat, also?

CurmudgeonNYC

I hope the table was ok

theoddfather

Lose the weight, you fat POS. Fat people have the same civil rights as skinny people. Because you choose to be a glutton does not make the world unfair. It makes you a disgusting jerkoff.

Sarah Pappalardo

There's a difference between disagreeing with the guy and being a total asshole about it.

brooklynRick

Fat people have rights?

ishtar_79

As horrible as those little burgers are for your insides, I kinda want a few of them right now. I'll refrain and continue munching on this humboldt fog and french bread.

PicoPhreako69

+10 for the awesome cheese reference.
My first bite of that stuff was 0_o....
and then I kept at it. Nearly Nirvana.

tijuanatornado

LOL... civil rights of fat people..... he gets "condescending" letters from them, doesn't fit anymore in their booths, and still chooses to give them his money, addict was the right word.