Posted on 10/05/2010 9:05:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
"Outside of the state of Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, is the most chili-crazed city in the United States. Cincinnati prides itself on being a true chili capital, with more than 180 chili parlors. Cincinnati-style chili is quite different from its more familiar Texas cousin, and it has developed a cult-like popularity.
What makes it different is the way the meat is cooked. The chili has a thinner consistency and is prepared with an unusual blend of spices that includes cinnamon, chocolate or cocoa, allspice, and Worcestershire. this is truly the unofficial grub of Cincinnati.
The people of Cincinnati enjoy their chili spooned over freshly made pasta and topped with a combination of chopped onions, shredded Cheddar cheese, refried beans or kidney beans, and crushed oyster crackers. If you choose "the works," you are eating what they call Five-Way Chili. Make sure to pile on the toppings - that's what sets it apart from any other chili dish."
Grew up in Cincy and have always LOVED Skyline. Took me years to get my recipe close to the original, the secret is putting the onion in cheese cloth.
I’m from Indiana, not Texas - but that’s just wrong.
Hey now thats a cool commercial break!
+1
I am from Texas FRiend and so I can assure you that I know what proper chili is - and like I said, real chili contains no beans.
It’s OK, but I gotta tell you, I prefer the Texas version.
Ok, so I’m html impaired and can’t properly post a picture. It was delicious looking though. LOL
SKYLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The nectar of the Gods!
You may sometimes hear the expression "chili with beans." The expression is necessary because chili is chili, and beans are beans. You may want beans with your chili, or you may want to add beans to your chili, and I will defend your right to do so. But the chili was chili without the beans.
I'm not speaking for myself. I'm channeling my great-great-grandfather, my great-great-great-grandfather, and my great-great-great-grandfather, all of whom were living in Bluefield Fort, near Lufkin, Texas, in 1836 when Texas declared its independence from Mexico.
You see, chili and I go a long way back.
The good people of Cincinnati are welcome to eat what they eat, but out of respect for the English language, they should refer to Cincinnati chili as Cincinnati 'chili'. Otherwise, its like putting a scoop of pistachio ice cream on an avocado half, covering it with nutmeg and sawmill gravy, and calling it Eggs Benedict.
“Chili doesn’t have beans in it sir.”
Beans are not mandatory. Kidney beans, however, are expressly forbidden.
Who is the top picture with Reagan of?
Better. 
Please refer back to my post 92. I was responding to another Texans post, but I believe it answers your concerns as well.
You can add beans to your chili if you want and what you will have is "chili with beans", hell you can add marshmallows if you want and then you would have "chili with marshmallows".
You may be from Texas my FRiend, but if you knew beans about chili you would know that chili ain't got no beans.
And if you didn't like the weather in Texas you could have just waited 5 or 10 minutes.
I'm guessing you might be from somewhere north of Texarkana.
It shouldn't have made me laugh, but it did. Not because of the chili judge, but because of Texas. Live there awhile, and you meet the most incredible people - they're the Other Southern. They really do pop a beer and look for the tornado when the sirens go off. They really do eat chili that is so far gone past hot it doesn't taste like anything anymore, and they do it with a bland face. And they really are an absolutely lethal combination of down-home and card-shark (no matter what the subject). I think what does it is the blowtorch heat - so hot you find yourself laughing at it in the few seconds of consciousness you have left before you're vaporized.
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