Not gonna try to match Italian dish knowledge with you, but I gotta say your image is kinda predisposed to a poor review with that Taco Bell cheese on top presentation. Seriously, are those oyster crackers? Clam chowder is their only role unless you got the munchies but no car. Lose the cheese. All of it. Stir the pasta and meat. Add mushrooms and onions. Season to taste.
Those degenerates in the greater Cincinnati area put shitty sweet chili on pasta. Thats a picture from Skyline Chili. It’s the most bizarre culinary phenomenon I’ve ever experienced first hand and I’ve traveled all over and seen some really sick shit people call food.
There's some legit Italian spots all over the Detroit area if you know where to look. She Wolf, La Dolce Vita, Luigi's, Giovanni's, D'Edorado, La Lanterna off the top of my head.
I know someone from Cincy and he insisted on stopping here for lunch on the way back from Kentucky. I never understood it.
My theory is that they all realize it’s disgusting and it’s some inside joke. If you’ve got a better explanation I’m all ears.
The antithesis of this thread title: the central time zone is the best time zone for over the air tv. Prime time starts at 7. News at 10. Late night tv starts at 1030. It’s the only civilized way to do it.
There’s some great Italian in St. Louis, in spite of that abomination they call pizza there. Also, great Italian restaurants in Effingham, Illinois. But it’s a mob town — check the map. It’s next to two major interstates and is conveniently located between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Memphis) so there’d kind of a creepy vibe. First (and only) time we ate at a restaurant in Pittston, PA, I experienced the same thing. Turns out the back room of said restaurant is alleged to be where the Jimmy Hoffa hit was planned. Damn fine chicken parm, though.
As I suspected. A fuggin Greek! Skyline Chili is a chain of Cincinnati-style chili restaurants based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1949 by Greek immigrant Nicholas Lambrinides Skyline's menu includes their signature dishes: cheese coneys (a hot dog topped with Skyline Chili, mustard, onions, and cheese), and 3-ways (spaghetti topped with Skyline Chili and cheese); 4-ways (choice of beans or onions added), and 5-ways (beans and onions both added). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_Chili It has to be the fart-smelliest gdamn city in America. People must turn to their backsides and greet each other with farts.
Interesting. In the 20s, a Greek diner owner in New Jersey (Paterson, IIRC) invented the “Texas wiener” by putting chili on an all beef hot dog. That was a great idea. Putting chili on spaghetti? As the great announcer Toby Charles used to say on Soccer Made in Germany, “thaat was a baad one there.”
You take that dish home and eat it alone. You don't subject others to the aftermath. How did you know he'd be Greek?
Greek-Canadian Sam Panopoulos invented Hawaiian pizza https://www.cbc.ca/news/hawaiian-pizza-sam-panopoulos-1.4155044
Yes, props to them for the Texas Wiener. I lived down the block from The Hot Grill for a few years. Had a Hawaiian empanada today. Ham, pineapple & mozzarella. Very tasty.
I swear to God…over the last month I’ve been binging Letterkenny and that’s how I heard about this guy.
I've had Skyline and it was...fine. Good way to mitigate a long day of drinking too much beer for too long before stumbling to my motel room. When in Dayton, Ohio... I first discovered chili on spaghetti thanks to a friend of my wife. She grew up in Pittsburgh, and there are few Ohio Valley culinary quirks they share with Cincinnati. Served baked (putting chili on cooked spaghetti in a pan, covering with some cheese, and then baking the whole thing) was...not terrible at all, paired with (again) beer and watching football. Not great cuisine nor something I crave, but we gave it a try after she named it as a childhood comfort food, and we didn't hate it. I sometimes put chili on top of rice, or mix in cornbread. The notion of pairing chili with starch just doesn't seem that outlandish to me.