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10 Worst Rated Pasta Dishes in the World
tasteatlas ^ | 11/2/23 | tasteatlas

Posted on 11/05/2023 7:56:26 PM PST by DallasBiff

10 Cincinnati Chile

Coming from the most chili-mad city in the United States after Texas, Cincinnati chili is a popular dish made with ground meat, stock, and unusual spices such as cinnamon, allspice, Worcestershire sauce, and chocolate or cocoa. The chili is usually served over pasta such as spaghetti, then topped with a flavorful combination of shredded Cheddar, fried beans, onions, and crushed oyster crackers.

With more than 180 chili joints in the city, Cincinnati takes great pride in being a chili capital. The dish was invented in 1922 by a Macedonian immigrant called Tom Kiradjieff. He opened a Greek restaurant called The Empress, which was a total failure until Tom started to serve chili prepared with Middle Eastern spices.

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To: DeplorablePaul

When we lived in CA in the ‘90s, I liked Linguine Caruso at Milano’s in Agoura Hills. Linguine, red wine tomato sauce and chicken livers.


41 posted on 11/06/2023 5:06:18 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Normal" is never coming back.)
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To: ansel12

Never had the Carroll Shelby brand, but I can bet a dollar that Cincy Chili is very different. It’s an acquired taste and not like a traditional beef, bean, tomato chilies most are used to. First it usually has cinnamon and in some versions chocolate. It’s more like a chili sauce after cooking down, the meat is chopped really fine and the chili is put on Spaghetti or small hot dogs, topped with cheese and onions. There are beans available for those that want them on the spaghetti but they are not in the cooked chili.


42 posted on 11/06/2023 5:11:39 AM PST by chuck allen
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To: growingpains
Gotta have my Skyline Chili fix at least once a week.

I have had to go through withdrawls since moving to Taiwan 16 years ago. Did get the mix occasionally when I would go back to visit.

43 posted on 11/06/2023 5:25:47 AM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: chuck allen

I’ll try it, I ran into chili on spaghetti in Kansas City and after I got over my Texas shock I thought it was pretty good.

I think my mistake with making chili on spaghetti was just pouring chili on it rather than looking for a chili sauce that fits the dish.

For regular chili give Carroll Shelby’s a shot, I used to recommend it to my California friends as an excellent mix that can impress people.


44 posted on 11/06/2023 5:26:16 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: COBOL2Java
FYI, "Puttanesca" translates as “in the style of the whore.” The name derives from the Italian word puttana which means whore. The story goes it's the dish that the ladies of the evening would throw together for their clients.

Yep, I learned that living in Napoli as a Navy brat “tween” (age 11-14.) It was supposedly created from things everyone tended to have in their kitchens. I rarely see it on restaurant menus but it’s so easy to make.

45 posted on 11/06/2023 5:27:51 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: jonrick46
I imagine that dish would taste good with shrimp.

I’m sure it would. But I’m one of those weirdos who likes anchovies and puttanesca in its original, very basic recipe is one of my favorite comfort meals.

46 posted on 11/06/2023 5:37:25 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: MayflowerMadam

When I try out a new Italian restaurant, I always order linguini and clams in a white sauce to see if they know what they’re doing. Flick a little red pepper on it. Yum.


47 posted on 11/06/2023 5:39:03 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: DallasBiff
I don't know about the worst, but pasta bolognese is the best.

Followed by pasta al forno.

Followed by chicken pasta Alfredo.

Followed by simple penne pesto.


48 posted on 11/06/2023 5:45:40 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Allegra; Blood of Tyrants

I love my puttanesca

That navy bean pasta dish not so much

Or squid ink pasta

Here in middle TN the Greeks often do Mexican spaghetti

Basically spaghetti and meat sauce dolled up Mexican style

Demos is famous for it


49 posted on 11/06/2023 5:51:51 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: wardaddy
Basically spaghetti and meat sauce dolled up Mexican style

I think I’d like that. I like Mexican food and spaghetti so I imagine I’d like the combination of the two.

50 posted on 11/06/2023 5:53:59 AM PST by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: growingpains
There's a chili parlor in the DC MD VA area which does a good job with Cincinnati Chili

Hard Times Cafe

They have four kinds:


51 posted on 11/06/2023 5:55:58 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: COBOL2Java
Hard Times Cafe

Oh man, that brings back memories. A favorite haunt when I used to live there back in the day, along with Armands and Bullfeathers.

Didn't like the Cincinnati, always got Texas instead.

52 posted on 11/06/2023 6:00:38 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DallasBiff

I like all of these except the one made from sea urchin gonads.


53 posted on 11/06/2023 6:13:05 AM PST by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: ansel12
Cincinnati Chili is not Chili.

It is more a Greek meat sauce. I know someone who would use it in her moussaka where it was pretty good.

54 posted on 11/06/2023 6:35:57 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: DallasBiff

Pasta is hi-carb junk food. But I’ll eat it 2x a month. The only way I will eat it is spaghetti in red sauce. Grated Parmesan and an Italian meatball if available. I have never eaten pasta Alfredo and never will. I don’t like creamy sauces.

Try -— When you cook spaghetti, Drain it as dry as you can. Then add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil and some sea salt. Mix well. Then top it with red sauce.


55 posted on 11/06/2023 6:53:34 AM PST by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Organic Panic

“I would rather skip lunch then eat the garbage served to us in public school.”

My public schools served edible enough food. Friday was fish day, which I really liked. Such as fish sticks and baked cod cakes. I brown bagged it maybe 20 times total.

Desert was often a decent apple brown Betty. That I have never eaten since.


56 posted on 11/06/2023 7:01:00 AM PST by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Allegra

“But I’m one of those weirdos who likes anchovies and puttanesca in its original”

Big yum for anchovy pizza. Anchovies are expensive, or I would be eating some every day, in every way. Such as in a homemade hamburger. Because they are delicious due to being high umami. I bought a small glass jar of them. I have kept the left over olive oil to use on toast or a toasted bagel.


57 posted on 11/06/2023 7:07:55 AM PST by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: joshua c

I make “Sloppy Mac,” ground beef and Manwich or some other sloppy joe shortcut, to which I add elbow macaroni and eat it in a bowl.


58 posted on 11/06/2023 7:22:05 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: nopardons
DON’T CALL IT GOULASH

No worries. My brother always called it "Idiot's Delight".

59 posted on 11/06/2023 7:44:30 AM PST by Inspectorette
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; chuck allen; growingpains

One thing I can’t stand is sweetness in savory dishes, to me it ruins so many canned goods from some canned chili to some canned spaghetti sauces and Chef Boyardee products.

Does Cincinnati Chili have any sweetness?


60 posted on 11/06/2023 8:31:33 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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