Skyline Chili may be America’s strangest culinary idiom.
The iconic dish of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the name of the casual-dining business that made it famous, is simply spaghetti covered with chili and piled high with shredded cheddar cheese.
“It’s weird to a lot of people,” Sherry Tomlinson, whose grandfather and father, Nick and Bill Lambrinides, were two of Skyline Chili’s co-founders, told News in an interview.
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“People either love it or it’s just not their thing,” she told me. “But people who love it become addicted to it.”
Skyline Chili, a peculiar culinary tradition from Cincinnati, produces a deep divide between critics and devotees.
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