Skyline Chili. Is it chili, or not?

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I say it's not. But whatever it is, it's GOOOOOOD!!

Discuss ...

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[MrCoffee]

1. Hell no it's not chili

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5. I agree, of course; but it is damn tasty.

It's more a dish/class of its own. But it's not chili.

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[Shell Beau]

2. I am so confused!

:shrug:

[TZ]

3. OF COURSE its chili. Its just not TEXAS style chili.

Its quite different. I had it for lunch today or close to it --"Cinncinnati Chili" although not NEARLY as good as Skyline.

[MrCoffee]

4. Do not make me post the Official Rules of the Chili Appreciation Society International

Just don't.

[TZ]

10. Just because your taste buds have been burned out by eating the hot nonsense

Texans call chili......

[cloudbase]

43. C'mon!

Chili does not need a modifier, unless you're one of those barbarians who think barbecue is a verb.

[no name no slogan]

Oh great. Just what we need. Way to call out the Lounge Chili Nazis

:crazy:

[Gormy Cuss]

6. It's Cincinnati chili. Calling it just chili would be wrong.

Texas chili may be the original but there many variations out there that are very good.

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7. No, there has to be a point at which something is no longer chili.

Otherwise, you could make a damn cheezeburger and call it chili. You could make beef stew and call it chili.

I think we all know where that line is. It doesn't mean that Skyline isn't GOOD, hell I love it!! It's just over that line.

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[TZ]

8. Okay Bake why isn't it Chili?

Because it usually doesn't have beans, because its sweet not hot? Its chili. Texas chili and Cinncinnati Chili are different but they are BASCIALLY the same thing.

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12. I think we all know I'm right.

There's no tomato chunks in it. It's sweet. It's thin. And mainly, it doesn't taste like chili. Probably no chili powder even IN it.

I still love it, though.

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[Shell Beau]

19. And from what I was hear, it has cinnamon and chocolate in it!

:o

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Yes, but ground meat (or small diced meat stew with lots of red chile= chili.

That's where I draw the line. Therefore, Cinti chili is chili albeit one of the more far-flung interpretations.


on edit: I see in your response to TZ you think tomato chunks and chili powder are essential to chili. Cinti chili does have all of the component parts of a typical chili powder (ground red chili, cumin,oregano, garlic)and tomato paste. H. Allen Smith used only tomato paste and in the first Terlingua chili cook off was deemed a tie between Smith and Wick Fowler.

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32. I'm going by the way my granddaddy made it.

It was, and is to this day, the definitive chili. Tomato chunks and all. And little cubes of cheese on the side. And crackers. Oyster crackers.

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[Gormy Cuss]

47. I see. No point arguing with a family recipe.

My mother had her own version (tomato chunks) and when she made a pot of it everyone in the neighborhood wanted a bowl of it. It's the only way most of my siblings will make it even today.

I have Jane Butel's "Chili Madness" cookbook and make all sorts of variants, with one common theme: if it's not at least medium hot, it's not worth the time.

[Shakespeare]

9. Hell no. More like sloppy joe mix.

Blech.

[jmowreader]

11. It's a sin against God and society, that's what it is

I mean, what kind of a communist puts chili on spaghetti?

[Shell Beau]

13. Eeeew! I have no idea what Skyline chili is, but that sounds gross.

[TZ]

15. It has chocolate and cinnamon in it too!

Thats why its sweet. For many its an acquired taste I admit. But I liked it from the first time I tried it as a teenager.

[Shell Beau]

18. Ok, that does it for me. I am willing to try anything, but

this is sounding grosser by the minute!

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46. Actually, it's really good.

It's just not "chili."

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14. I prefer it on five or six cheese coneys.

With onions, cheese piled way up, and mustard.

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[ipfilter]

16. Sort of like this?

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21. Not exactly ...

That just looks gross. Whatever it is.

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[ipfilter]

23. That's called a gut bomb.

Or all the calories you need for a week.

[TZ]

24. Here ya go!

YUMMY!

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27. Look at those giant red kidney beans.

What an abomination!

[TZ]

29. actually I never have the chili with beans, so I agree with you on that

Yuck..hate kidney beans...

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28. Doesn't look quite like a Skyline coney, but it looks goooood!

:hi:

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[Shell Beau]

44. That doesn't do it for me!

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

20. Chili spaghetti is a popular dish here in the "People's Republic of Hawai'i"

so named by Steve Forbes. :eyes:

Our popular local chain is Zippy's; there are about three dozen of them on an island of 600 sq. mi.! President Obama sometimes eats at Zippy's when he's visiting. Its version of chili (no cinnamon, but there may or may not be ginger involved) is popular enough that it is sold frozen in stores (I have a box of two packets sitting in the freezer) and is even shipped to the mainland. It is generally served over rice (which may end up starting a new thread :popcorn: ), but is also served as chili spaghetti.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I have been known to put spaghetti IN chili. and Cincinnati Chile is VERY GOOD

five way all the way.

But I like the hot stuff too and I make a damn fine bowl of red.

[jobycom]

22. Who knows? Who cares? What is life?

Key-riste there are some weird fanatics in this world. I can kind of get that whole "Abu Bakr was Muhammad's caliph/Abu Bakr was an apostate usurper" fight, but chili? Just ain't worth blood worrying about what is and isn't chili.

Anyway, "chili" is just a type of pepper. The Texas stuff is technically called chili con carne (chile peppers with beef). Somehow that got shortened to "chili," which became a type of dish more than an ingredient, in much the same way "casserole" became a type of dish when it is technically the name of the utensil it was cooked in. The word fits anything people want to call it.

So who cares? Where are the fucking narwhals, man.

Just looked it up, and it's an Ohioan thing. I remember the first time I met someone from Ohio. I was in 12th grade, and we took a class trip to DC and partnered with another group from Ohio. One night they had Mississippi food for us, one night they had Ohio food. On the Mississippi night, all the Ohio folk whined about how nasty and greasy our food was, and they drank tons of water to drown out the spices. So on the Ohio night, they were all happy and smiling, and all us Miss'ippi folk were asking "how come there's no flavor in their food?"

So, as Rosanne Rosanadanna would have said, if it's not one thing, it's another. Either you got people fighting about the name of a pepper, or you got a bunch of foreigners running around wondering what's wrong with the taste buds of the other foreigners.

That's all.

[Shell Beau]

25. But I bet their food really had no flavor!

:hide:

[TZ]

26. *cough* grits *cough* okra.....

[Shell Beau]

30. Yes, those are some yummy foods!!

:9


:P

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36. But only if the okry is fried

Boiled okry is kinda slimy.

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[Shell Beau]

38. Fried okra is soooooo good! I like it boiled too, but fried is definitely

the way to go!

[jobycom]

31. Exactly what she was saying.

[TZ]

34. Yeah...no flavor...

:P

[jobycom]

35. You misspelled "know." nt

[Shell Beau]

39. WHAT? No flavor? Who made your grits and okra?

They need to take some cooking classes or something!! :o

[TZ]

41. fried okra...is slimy tasteless something covered in breading.

You know when you prefer the breading somethings wrong....

[Shell Beau]

42. I prefer fried chicken over baked, grilled or broiled!!

Doesn't mean the others aren't yummy too!

[jobycom]

33. yeah, pretty much, but I was trying to pretend to be objective.

The concensus on their spaghetti and meat sauce was that we couldn't wait to get back to our school cafeteria.

[jmowreader]

45. I'm glad no one from MY state went to that...

One night they'd have heavily-spiced Mississippi food, one night they'd have bland Ohio food, and the third night they'd just put a big bowl of potatoes in the middle of the table and tell us that's the only thing they eat in Idaho.

[DS1]

37. I had to google search it, never heard of them. But damn, way too much cheese in those pics

on the website

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40. I never smile like the people on that site

until the next day.

"Hey kid, pull my finger."

[hobbit709]

48. It's a semi-spicy spaghetti sauce with beans.

So that makes it a double blasphemy. Pasta sauce with beans and chili over pasta.