Today I celebrated Bama's win over Cincinnati with some Skyline Chili! This is not a troll post - I've been eating Skyline for nearly 40 years.
Skyline Chili is a staple in Cincinnati. There are fast-food/counter restaurants in the chain that serve it up.
The Skyline Chili Corporate Website
I am lucky that a few grocery chains here sell Skyline Chili in cans, in freezer packs, and with spaghetti in freezer packs. The chain also promotes the chili on hot dogs, fries and baked potatoes, and more. But I enjoy it over spaghetti in the classic "3 Way" configuration.
Let's start with the chili. I get the can which is $4-5 each (2 lunch servings) in the grocery store here in town (Publix).
The chili (which is without beans) served over spaghetti and topped with shredded cheddar cheese is referred to as a "3 Way". You can add diced onions or kidney beans to make a "4 Way". Add both and it becomes a "5 Way". That's how you order it in southwest Ohio. But my favorite is the classic 3 Way topped with a little red pepper sauce.
So I boiled up a plate of spaghetti while I heated up the can of chili.
Then topped that with half a can of steaming hot chili.
Add any amount of cheddar on top and it is OH SO GOOD!
As I said, I add a few shots of a red pepper/vinegar based sauce.
Cincinnati chili is not spicy and Skyline has not formally revealed the recipe that I know of. The internet is full of knock-off Skyline recipes ("tastes JUST LIKE IT" type of recipes). I just buy the product. I do enjoy it and would add that it's not really a chilli in my book as much as it's another meat sauce to put on spaghetti.
The downside to being a Skyline fan is that it brings out the closet fans. After enjoying half a can as described above, I store the leftovers in a small tupperware to enjoy a few days later. Problem is, the hungry roving ladies in my life (DW and DD) love it too as a nacho dip, a microwaved potato topper, or just with a spoon. No matter where I try to hide the tupperware container (in a fridge drawer, far back on a fridge shelf) it is often rapidly found and emptied.
I encourage anyone to try it.
Ed
PS - Bama beat the Bearcats and it wasn't that Cincy didn't belong in the College Football Playoffs - they just had the misfortune of playing Alabama. I know an all SEC final game doesn't thrill the rest of America but hear me again: if you expand the playoffs past 4 teams to as many as 12, more SEC teams will get in and maybe the entire Final Four could be SEC teams. So the other conferences need to UP their games (develop some speed on defense would be my advice).