The eternal Question (Cincinnati, Dayton, Kent: attorneys, maintenance, restaurant)

[Sunnydee]

Originally Posted by LASam

I voted for Skyline... but Blue Ash Chili is damn good too.

LOL - I voted the same way, but like Blue Ash Chili as well.

[goyguy]

Feh on all Cincinnati chili Never could stand the stuff - I think it's the "secret ingredients" (rumored to be cinnamon and chocolate, albeit in trace amounts.) But the best of the bunch is Skyline. With cheese, over spaghetti, and with plenty o' oyster crackers, thank you.

'tis true what was said about 'nati chili not catching on outside the region. I love a bowl of fiery Texas-style m'self, and I think the collective taste buds of the country are with me on that one. Some Cincinnatians, from the West Side it's said, attempted to replicate the product in Boston. They operated out of a take-out joint called Riverfront Chili and may have stayed in business for as long as two years. (Would the place have been called Great American Chili had it opened today? LOL) OTOH I've heard that one of the chains, Skyline perhaps, has caught on in Florida due to all the Tri-State emigres.

Chili orders are part of the Queen City vocabulary that marks a person as being from the area, along with "Please?" In my work I do a lot of business with college students, and one day found myself talking with a guy who'd relocated from my adopted area to study at Xavier. I steered the phone call into chat about Cincinnati chili; "Love the stuff!" said he. He cracked up when I said I hoped he hadn't punched the first person who asked him if he was in the mood for a three-way. Chalk up one convert.

[Ohiogirl81]

OTOH I've heard that one of the chains, Skyline perhaps, has caught on in Florida due to all the Tri-State emigres.

Goguy, if you travel to Naples, Fla., it'll seem like you've never left home. It was so annoying -- I'd gone on vacation to get away from Cincinnati, and everywhere I looked there was a Fifth Third Bank here, a Skyline there ...

[HuskerDu]

I voted Skyline but was mostly thinking in terms of vs. Gold Star. GS kind of tastes like Manwich filling compared to Skyline and even the hot sauce is not as good IMO. There is a bar downtown, Tina's on 4th street, that has a really good hybrid of Texas/Cincinnati style chilli. The bartender girls there are verrrrr nice to look at as well...

[captaincatfish]

LOL...I'm squarely on the fence...I do Skyline for chili, and Gold Star for the coneys...but I'm gonna need to try some of these other places---my mouth is watering too :-)

[captaincatfish]

LOL...and one more quick note---I saw 2 of my fave Cincinnati posters (HartwellGirl and Hillside) on the same thread at the same time...and they weren't lobbing broadsides at each other! I love it!!! Now if I could get 'em both to join hands and sing 'Kum-Ba-Ya' LOL

[hillside]

Originally Posted by captaincatfish

LOL...and one more quick note---I saw 2 of my fave Cincinnati posters (HartwellGirl and Hillside) on the same thread at the same time...and they weren't lobbing broadsides at each other! I love it!!! Now if I could get 'em both to join hands and sing 'Kum-Ba-Ya' LOL

lol or "stop the violence" by krs-one .

[cphilz87]

i voted for gold star. It's the first ciny chili i had and been hooked ever sence. Anything else dosn't seem as good

[franke01]

I voted for Gold Star, too.

I always put the hot sauce on my chili and Skyline's tasted like something toxic (it reminded me of what putting napalm on your chili might possibly taste like) and quite capable of inflicting a long and agonizing death (with prolonged use, of course).

[goyguy]

Did everybody see the pictures in the paper a couple of weeks ago, of the minivan that ran into the front of the Skyline at Clifton and Ludlow? Freak accident? Or somebody whose jones for chili got out of hand?