I don't even want to know, to tell you the truth. Not even a little bit.

can we please be a little less monomaniacal about his food choices?

Dean likes FOOD, not just burgers and pie. Although there is a special place in his heart for those.

And in the episode with the Ginger and Mary Anne ladies? constructs?, it appeared that there is an extra special place in his heart for White Castle burgers. But yes I'd assume he likes a wide variety of food - heavily biased towards road food simply because much of the time that was his only choice. But that would include pizza, Cajun. He canonically appreciates the type of German food you can get at Oktoberfest - not just the beer, but pretty much the whole variety of food. Although not canon, I'll bet at some point he has enjoyed "hopping chicken", just because if you are on the road in the swampy parts of the South sooner or later you will encounter some place that sells it. I'll bet he likes classic diner food - at the least meatloaf sandwich. And there are places on the road where "diner food" includes quail and venison. (I speak from personal experience.)

I don't know if he likes liver and onions, but I'll bet he tried it at least once and decided on the basis of taste and texture, not prejudice. Also there is a huge variety of ethnic food that can be road food, not just Chinese. So I'll bet he has tried a lot of ethnic food.

Also, he has stayed with folks on occasion, so he has tried (and I'll bet enjoyed) home cooking on the occasions when he got it. And even though we mostly see the boys in small towns, hunts do take them to cities on occasion. Canonically, Dean is familiar with where to get the best this and that in various metropolises. So I'll bet even the eating out has not been 100% road food.

the episode with the Ginger and Mary Anne ladies?

Remind me which episode this is?

Heaven decided burgers were the way to his heart, but it wasn't the only misjudgment they made.

He likes him some pie. I totally would have gone there first. You know, if food were going to influence that sort of decision.

Lucifer Rising. Dean was being held prisoner/guest. They were apparently catering to his personal fantasies so he was being served a big basket of white castle burgers by Mary Anne and Ginger shaped houris. Implied these were desires taken directly from his mind. Misjudgement was not only of Dean but of people. Dean could not be bought that cheaply, but honestly neither could most people. Though I think the idea was not so much pure buy off, but that by making the prison pleasant they would take the edge off his struggling to escape. Still a misjudgement of Dean and of most humans.

Do you mean in the Green Room? Those weren't White Castle. They were from a burger shack in Delaware (he was 11) (I love that line). And they weren't brought to him by women, they were just there on the table, just like they did for Adam.

I'm not sure what scene you're thinking of.

I think White Castle might have been mentioned explicitly for either Jimmy's reappearance or Cas's craving, but I'm pretty damned sure it's never been for Dean.

serial: I searched supernaturalwiki for the phrase "White Castle" and it comes up only once:

DEAN Okay, but what about you? I mean, since when do angels secretly hunger for White Castle?

So, while it's obvious Dean likes burgers (we see him eating them more often, probably, than anything else), there's no indication that he likes White Castle as a brand, and when a specific source was mentioned for him, it explicitly wasn't them. There's the Delaware shack, and there's Biggerson's, I think. Nothing else comes to mind.

I'm remembering one of those "Dean meets Jess" fics where Jess serves him salmon, and it's not only the first time he's had it, he's kinda confused by it, and it made me feel defensive. It's just a kind of fish. It's not a weird kind of fish, is it? I mean, it's prettily coloured, but it's not weird in form or flavour. Of course, there was the moment when Sam remembered when Jess had first served him salmon, and then Jess wondering what was up with these boys and the salmon ignorance...

Hmmph. It's not sushi, or anything.

Fic cracks me up. Since when are most college girls making their boyfriends any kind of fish?

Jess grew up in a very nice bougie family, but she had either a really cool father or a bunch of brothers (or both), so she's a total tomboy (and can totally keep up with Sam's apparent persona--exceed Samantha, even), but she introduces him to a lot of "real" suburban things.

God, Amy, everybody knows that. Where have you been?

I have a strange weakness for two sorts of pre-series fics--the ones where Dean met Jess and they slept together, but they didn't know who each other were, and it's not actually infidelity fic, and then one to three of them eventually find out and it's horrible or they work it out but THERE'S NO WINCEST OR THREESOME, and also the sort where Jess spends a lot of time wondering why her boyfriend is so weird, especially if it's because he's so gentle and sensitive one moment, and completely martially badassed the next. With a side of family dysfunction.

But I really really don't like where she survives or avoids the fire and goes on the road. I just don't. I can't articulate why.

Jess spends a lot of time wondering why her boyfriend is so weird, especially if it's because he's so gentle and sensitive one moment, and completely martially badassed the next. With a side of family dysfunction.

Oh, I like those, too. And I did read one where she and Dean had been seeing each other for a while before she met Sam, although I don't remember the details of how that worked (as in, what Dean was doing there for so long) but I'm pretty sure it did end in threeway sexytimes, so.

I think I like most the pre-series fic where it's Sam's POV, easing into this very normal relationship/life with Jess, and trying to figure out all this everyday girl stuff that he has zero experience with, since even the girls he crushed on or dated previously ended too quickly when they had to pack up and leave again.

Like, a dumb fic about Sam trying to figure out what to get Jess for her birthday, or what to do if she was having horrible cramps, would make me stupidly happy.

I'm pretty sure it did end in threeway sexytimes, so.

What's with people and the catering to not me? When will it end?

I guess I'm realising my "outsider" POV thing comes into play with pre-series Sam/Jess. To define terms, outsiders are everyone not Sam or Dean, so even John and Bobby are outsiders, but Jess is more so, because she doesn't know about hunting.

There are two things I want people to be outside of--the brotherly bond (like, not knowing about it is a boon), and the hunting background. I love seeing how that tinges the narrative.

It has limited use in D/C fic, so I don't come up against it as much as I used to (I also feel, like Weechesters, that I read it all, and it's just not being generated in volume anymore), and I really miss it.

So fic where Jess is trying to figure out Sam, and he's opaque because she doesn't understand precisely how he's missing a limb, and that he's been brought up in two distinct dysfunctional ways, but she sees through to the core of him anyway (the basics of what I want out of most of the outsider fic, although misreadings can be interesting too) and loves him for that--I really dig it.

But half the time people do that, they like Jess enough to save her life, so it's really a lot of picking and choosing for me to do.