[Sca-cooks] OT Chili Spaghetti???

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
>Sorry for the waste of bandwidth, but I just saw an episode of 
>'Unwrapped' on the Food Network,
>and apparently there is some kind of bizarre cult up in Cincinatti 
>which eats Chili poured over
>SPAGHETTI!!!
>
>Anyone here know anything about this absolute abomination?
>
>I'd love to know:
>
>1)  WHY???
>2)  Who would DO something like that???
>3)  WHY???
>
>William de Grandfort

This is a legitimate regional thing (no comment on the wisdom 
inherent in the practice, but it's a real deal).

Even though the pasta is spaghetti, this is known as Cincinnati Chili Mac.

I'm not sure why, but it's really no more bizarre than any of the 
other dubious tomato products you sometimes find added to pasta in 
the Amurrican Midwest.

Phlip, would you care to comment on the Cult of Ketchup-seasoned Pasta in Ohio?

Adamantius, whose region lacks its own distinctive chili form, so 
personally defaults to beanless Texas varieties..
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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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