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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s definitely more. I think my father in law eats it, but my father was strictly scrapple. Funny enough each eats the other’s city’s gross meat.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And chocolate. Cincinatti chili is great

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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