I wasn’t aware that chocolate was a traditional Greek flavoring
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BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 days agoCincinnati 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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 days ago
No Cincinnati chili parlors hhave ever officially added chocolate, but it is common with homemade Cincinnati chili.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days 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
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Maybe goetta? But goetta might be more controversial than skyline, so maybe that disqualifies it
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days 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.