hot take: Cincinnati chili was invented by a Macedonian guy, is based on the excellent spiced tomato sauces you find in the Mediterranean, and you’d probably find the sauce delicious if you ordered it over pasta at a Greek restaurant
www.thetakeout.com/cincinnati-s...
pro-tip: there's no such thing as an authentic or inauthentic recipe. food, like language, reflects generations of folks who nurture it and evolve it over time. except cincinnati chili wth is that abomination
Yeah, I don't love it but I don't think it's *incorrect*; the main problem is how the "authentic" version made with like, dog food-grade midcentury trash ingredients.
Cincinnati chili rules. It looks like dog barf and bears little resemblance to what we usually think of as chili, but a five-way from Skyline is one of the tastiest plates you'll get from a quick-service restaurant.
Going to call this ice cold because I love the stuff and think Texas just needs to slow its roll when people say the word chili. I'm sure you and @actioncookbook.bsky.social have to have interacted here before, and he's another acolyte.
Also, the Italian restaurant I miss the most in Manhattan...
YES. I grew up down the street from a Skyline Chili, loved the stuff and now make my own. A lot of people who trash it simply do not know what they are talking about.
Having grown up in a part of CT where there were the Greek owned pizza places and the Italian owned pizza places and the sauces had totally different seasoning profiles, I can absolutely appreciate Cincinnati chili for what it is.
Its honestly better on a hotdog as a "coney" what they call it locally. But i dont really care for it. Its like semi-sweet cinnamon meat slurry and as a former texan, it's offensive, to me, to call it "chili".
if you order a “Michigan dog” at a “creamee” in VT, western MA, Adirondack area of NY- it’s similar to a Cincinnati coney and also resembles a Michigan coney, which is related!
