[BBQToadRibs2]

My Mom was 100% Czech. For all of my youth (Iowa) I thought I was eating real Texas chili. Until I visited Texas and realized Mom had no idea what she was making. It was a recipe out of a 1950s Betty Crocker book, and it was pretty much spot on Cincinnati style chili. Which because I was raised on it, I like. But, yea. It’s not really chili, it’s just it’s own thing. And I’m 5-way all the way.

[mylife]

Mu mother in Ohio, God Bless her made a chili suitable for convalescing hospital patients.

[colorado tanker]

My Mom made the same dish. Although she was raised in E. Central Indiana, she never called it Cincinnati Chili, just Chili. She had the Betty Crocker cookbook, so maybe that's where she got it.

Thing is, my parents moved to Kansas, which is where I was raised. So, I knew the stuff wasn't Chili, but I really didn't know what it was.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

My mother (from Iowa) made the worst chili I have ever eaten. Canned kidney beans, big slimy hunks of canned stewed tomatoes, and practically no spices, just a little McCormick premixed chili powder. It was awful.