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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My headcanon for the invention of Cincinnati chili is that some midwestern person read that chili is “heavily spiced” and used what they had available, including chili and nutmeg.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cincinnati chili comes from Greek and immigrants fleeing the Balkan wars of the 1920’s. they got off the boat in New York and saw everyone eating Coney dogs and New York style spaghetti.They then get to Ohio and figure that’s what Americans like to eat, so they made a sauce using Mediterranean ingredients and flavors that they were familiar with. If they had called it anything other than chili, it would be widely regarded as Cincinnati’s greatest contribution to American cuisine.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m an adamant defender of skyline, but I think it’s already considered Cincinnati’s greatest contribution to American cuisine. I can’t think of any others

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe goetta? But goetta might be more controversial than skyline, so maybe that disqualifies it

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wasn’t aware that chocolate was a traditional Greek flavoring

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      • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No Cincinnati chili parlors hhave ever officially added chocolate, but it is common with homemade Cincinnati chili.

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  • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And chocolate. Cincinatti chili is great

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except for when they eat it over spaghetti and cut it with a knife instead of twirling

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      • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve managed to do this for decades without incident or injury to myself or others.

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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s got beans of you order a 5-way like a real man

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only 3 ways and some 4 ways don’t have beans

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not choking, it’s “Cincinnati chili,” and you can absolutely get it with beans

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