Cincinatti Chiliv

[Dennis R. Preston]

CLOVES!

dInIs (who pert near gagged)

>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
>greg at pulliam.org


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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