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[kcmets]

Chili fries are great, so long as the fries are crispy and soggy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Ceetar post_id=72067 time=1626811828 user_id=102]
probably on par. I tend to like chili on noodles, and chili on french fries for that matter, but I could definitely see how a chain could make that badly. It's like thinking sandwiches are bad because you've only had the play dough they sell at Subway.

[seawolf17]

Those Primanti frenchfrywiches are REALLY good.



Skyline is gross.

[Edgy MD]

Am I to understand that Skyline is awful at Great American Ballpark, or that it's awful no matter what the context?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Am I to understand that Skyline is awful at Great American Ballpark, or that it's awful no matter what the context?

I had it at a franchise. The sauce is awful. It doesn't evoke spaghetti sauce and it doesn't evoke chili, either. It's some strange concoction and it's over-spiced. And it's watery.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Am I to understand that Skyline is awful at Great American Ballpark, or that it's awful no matter what the context? I had it at a franchise. The sauce is awful. It doesn't evoke spaghetti sauce and it doesn't evoke chili, either. It's some strange concoction and it's over-spiced. And it's watery.

The odd thing is that if I was reading this entire thread without ever having eaten at Skyline Chili, I'd wanna eat there very much just to experience for myself how some meal so apparently popular and beloved could be so awful.

[Frayed Knot]

I remember reading a book about chili -- well not a book book but some kind of reading on the subject -- that talked about how Cincinnati chili in general was unlike any other.

It's like one could trace, almost genetically, the evolution where this led to that which led to something else as if it was almost like tracking human migrations. But it went on

to say that whatever happened in Cincy was a left turn out of nowhere that had no logical parentage.

Skyline, I believe, is merely the most popular/known version of this odd twist on an American favorite but that there are other varieties in SW Ohio which still are likely to be

unlike what you/we/most folks think of as Chili.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I vaguely recall reading something like that about Cincinnati chili history. Your post makes sense because the word that comes to mind when I think about Skyline Chili besides awful is unusual.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

=seawolf17 post_id=72104 time=1626832017 user_id=91]
Those Primanti frenchfrywiches are REALLY good.

[Ceetar]

I don't remember what I ate at Primanti when I went in 2006, forgettable.





Cincinnati chili has cinnamon right? and chocolate. *googles*



I wonder how it breaks down culturally. Do people used to Macedonian, or Macedonian adjacent cuisine like it more? or maybe less because it's a pale imitation?



Or does it break down along Pumpkin Spice lines? Lots of similar flavorings there. I wonder if it's correlated...

[seawolf17]

Yeah, it's the cinnamon in the chili that is completely unnecessary.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If I had a tasty bowl of chili that was to my liking as a starter or foundation, I could make a pretty good version of Skyline chili. The diced onions and shredded cheese are common additions to a bowl of chili. The spaghetti is what makes that dish different, but spaghetti noodles are pretty bland or neutral by themselves, and shouldn't otherwise ruin the rest of that dish.



Anyways, I just described 4-way, I guess. What's the 5th way ingredient- kidney beans?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

AON, I made shrimp risotto for the first time ever last night, and it came out EXCELLENT.



It's not hard do do or anything.

[Ceetar]

risotto is great, though not a big seafood fan. I don't know why it has a rep for being hard, it just requires a little more attention than 'normal' rice.