Cincinatti Chiliv

[Greg Pulliam]

Doesn't Cincinnati chili have chocolate or cocoa in it?


>The Cincinatti Chili I'm familiar with is basically a
>spaghetti sauce.
>
>JIM
>
>--- Mike Salovesh <salovesh at NIU.EDU> wrote:
>....
>  > On several trips to that fine city, I remembered a
>  > famous feature of
>  > Cincinnati cuisine: a dish called "Cincinnati
>  > chile".  (It comes in
>  > standard variants, which are ordered by the
>  > appropriate number from one
>  > to five.  As I recall, a "five" had a combination of
>  > five elements,
>  > including chile, cheese, and macaroni plus two more
>  > I foget.  Was one of
>  > them a hot dog?) I was proud of myself for
>  > remembering this bit of local
>  > esoterica on each return.
>  >
>  > I shouldn't have been that proud.  Each time, I
>  > ordered one of the
>  > concoctions (probably a number five).  Each time,
>  > the first bite
>  > reminded me how much I hate the dish.  I think its
>  > popularity comes from
>  > the fact that it's one dish a six year old can make
>  > successfully.
>  > That's not much of a recommendation.
>  >
>  > Several unhappy meetings with Cinti Chili finally
>  > taught me to accept
>  > anything else rather than order this mess again.
>
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Greg
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