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The Cincinnati spaghetti thread is over there ------------->

Is this somehow off topic?

Nah, but it sure seems to get brought up around here on the B12 board pretty often for, you know, not being in any way related to the B12 geographies and also, you know, being antithetically oriented to traditional Texas chili, which actually IS representative of a very large part of the B12 geography.

And since there's only one person on this message board who has the city of Cincinnati referenced in his moniker and he's the one always talking about it, one might begin to think that there's some pot stirring going on.

Better be careful or Fearless will take offense to you stealing his bit.

Just seems really... unusual... that we seem to discuss Cincinnati spaghetti with meat sauce more around here, than we do almost any other topic.

Why, do you suppose, that is?

The Big 12 goes all the way to Iowa and West Virginia, though you wouldn't know the West Virginia part from any posting going on here.

A couple of long-time Tulsa institutions serve dishes that look similar to those at the Blue Ash. Ike's Chili, a restaurant that served Will Rogers when he flew into town, serves among other dishes chili over spaghetti, with or without cheese and/or onions. 



Then there's the Coney Island, which was once part of a national franchise that no longer exists. It and its offshoot Coney I-Lander local franchise serve coneys that--if spread out--would look a lot like that one at the Blue Ash.



I don't think that either of these restaurants have cinnamon in their chili, but I might be wrong about that.

Ike's chili appears to be loaded with beans

just hangin on to the title

and just one more reason for Texans to despise Sooners 

Ike's looks like a close relative, if not the same, probably no different than the different versions in Cincy.  Folks have favorites, Gold Star, Skyline are the two more prominent chains there.

Anyway, I had my "fill" as it were for a year or more.

Chili is not big around here apparently beyond a hot dog topping at times.  Brunswick stew is far more common (and better in my view versus commercial chili).  On our recent trip, we had Japanese in Cincy for one lunch, Chinese for one dinner, Thai for another lunch, and Chinese for another dinner.  Then we had sushi just now for lunch (from Kroger, which has remarkably good sushi, better than the Shell stations)...