MarkL wrote:This summer was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The Neill Armstrong museum is along I-75 in a town called Wapakoneta or something to that effect. Great place to visit. I also suggest the Air Force Museum in Dayton. Also - while you're still in SW Ohio - eat some Skyline. Cincinnati tradition and I greatly miss it when I'm away from my little corner of the state.
A note on that to the uninitiated. Don't just order a bowl of chili. While they will serve it to you that way, it's really not the kind of chili you just eat a bowl of. When I introduce someone to Skyline, I tell them they have to get at least one Cheese Coney and a small 3-Way. These are basically Skyline's signature items. Cheese coneys, most people know what they are. A hot dog with chili and cheese. (By the way, if you're there during one of the times they're offering to double the amount of cheese for a cheap price, don't think to yourself "Hey, I like cheese, maybe I'll do that" the way my fiancee did the first time I took her. Trust me, unless you're basically so into cheese that you want to copulate with it, there's plenty of cheese on there already.) A 3-Way, despite what you may be thinking, is nothing dirty. If you talk to someone within the main Skyline realm of influence, and ask them if they are up for a 3-Way, they're likely to be thinking spaghetti with chili and cheese on top. Also, lest you go in with false expectations, this is Cincinnati style chili. Which means chili with no beans, very finely crumbled meat, cinnamon and even, to the experienced palate, a hint of chocolate. Do yourself a favor and don't knock until you've tried it though. In my lifetime, I have only come across one person who didn't immediately love it the first time they had it. Still don't know what's wrong with him...
SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Sorry, I cannot recommend to anyone that they eat chili with cinnamon and chocolate in it. And then they serve it on top of spaghetti. Blah. I think everyone in SW Ohio loves it, but the rest of the world, clearly has better taste buds.
As for gameday, just show up early and stop by our tailgate. We only have a few Saturday home games this year, and this one is the only night game. This will be the big tailgate of the year. I plan to make a bacon explosion (or two) and I'm sure we'll have plenty of other awesome food & drink options. I've got a bottle of rum-cherries ready to rock 'n' roll for the occasion.
If you want a GREAT breakfast on gameday or the day after, you've got to go to Kermit's. A family of 4 can eat breakfast for about 20 bucks. I suggest over-medium eggs, pancakes, hashbrowns and bacon with a cold glass of milk!
Can't wait for this game! Should be a great time!
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h2oville rocket wrote:Creation Museum is actually in Ky, but as BO states- get on I-75 north and drive about 3 hours and you'll hit BG. If hotels are a problem there, Perrysburg, about 12 miles north is a good alternative-there are several hotel options at Route 20, off of I-75 or, heading west on 23 there are some at or near a shopping center called Levis Commons. Tons of places to eat at both locations but Levis is a little more upscale than the chain-type places on 20. I would recommend the Holiday Inn at Route 20- nice place that's been a Toledo area mainstay for years.
Also the Cincy zoo and botanical gardens are pretty nice. Another alternative would be hitting up the Newport Aquarium (In Newport KY, right on the river), plus you could always stop at the Hofbrau house for a litter of beer, very nice beer garden across the street from the aquarium. If you are set on going to that creation place Its really easy to get back to 75. You'll leave the airport and go west on 275. Once done you can go back east on 275, 8miles to 1-75 and take that north all the way to BG, but you'll go through downtown Cincy. Your other option is to keep going on 275 (west, then north) around Cincy and get back on I-75 North of Cincy.
Hofbrauhaus is pretty awesome. Finally made it down there for a visit a few months ago and can't wait to go back.
Anyway, if it were me, I'd recommend taking I-75 North straight through Cincy. Yes, you'll go right through downtown, and if you hit at the wrong time, it can be pretty busy, but in my experience, 275 is a horrible bypass and loops out too far to save you any time.
MarkL wrote:This summer was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The Neill Armstrong museum is along I-75 in a town called Wapakoneta or something to that effect. Great place to visit. I also suggest the Air Force Museum in Dayton. Also - while you're still in SW Ohio - eat some Skyline. Cincinnati tradition and I greatly miss it when I'm away from my little corner of the state.
A note on that to the uninitiated. Don't just order a bowl of chili. While they will serve it to you that way, it's really not the kind of chili you just eat a bowl of. When I introduce someone to Skyline, I tell them they have to get at least one Cheese Coney and a small 3-Way. These are basically Skyline's signature items. Cheese coneys, most people know what they are. A hot dog with chili and cheese. (By the way, if you're there during one of the times they're offering to double the amount of cheese for a cheap price, don't think to yourself "Hey, I like cheese, maybe I'll do that" the way my fiancee did the first time I took her. Trust me, unless you're basically so into cheese that you want to copulate with it, there's plenty of cheese on there already.) A 3-Way, despite what you may be thinking, is nothing dirty. If you talk to someone within the main Skyline realm of influence, and ask them if they are up for a 3-Way, they're likely to be thinking spaghetti with chili and cheese on top. Also, lest you go in with false expectations, this is Cincinnati style chili. Which means chili with no beans, very finely crumbled meat, cinnamon and even, to the experienced palate, a hint of chocolate. Do yourself a favor and don't knock until you've tried it though. In my lifetime, I have only come across one person who didn't immediately love it the first time they had it. Still don't know what's wrong with him...
SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Sorry, I cannot recommend to anyone that they eat chili with cinnamon and chocolate in it. And then they serve it on top of spaghetti. Blah. I think everyone in SW Ohio loves it, but the rest of the world, clearly has better taste buds.
Folks in Florida seem to be enjoying it, there are five locations that have opened up there recently. Not to mention it's sold (and purchased) in cans and frozen dinners in stores throughout a good portion of the Eastern US.
Perhaps some folks would be better off if they stopped thinking of it so much as "chili" since evidently that comes with too many pre-associations about what it should be like. (Personally, I have no problem with there being two different kinds of chili, but I have run into a lot of people who have difficulties accepting Skyline/Gold Star/other brands of Cincy style chili as true "chili") You might be better served to think of it as a sauce. Suddenly, it doesn't sound so weird to put it on a dog or on some spaghetti.
All the same I don't actually think that it's for everybody. What food is? But if you're looking for a little of the local flavor, which a lot of people do like, then I recommend giving it a shot.
Ydfalcon wrote:SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Skyline Chili rocks absolutely. Especially from the original site, but its all good. YD is correct- if you think its gonna be like chili-chili you won't like it. Accept it on its own terms.
MarkL wrote:This summer was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The Neill Armstrong museum is along I-75 in a town called Wapakoneta or something to that effect. Great place to visit. I also suggest the Air Force Museum in Dayton. Also - while you're still in SW Ohio - eat some Skyline. Cincinnati tradition and I greatly miss it when I'm away from my little corner of the state.
A note on that to the uninitiated. Don't just order a bowl of chili. While they will serve it to you that way, it's really not the kind of chili you just eat a bowl of. When I introduce someone to Skyline, I tell them they have to get at least one Cheese Coney and a small 3-Way. These are basically Skyline's signature items. Cheese coneys, most people know what they are. A hot dog with chili and cheese. (By the way, if you're there during one of the times they're offering to double the amount of cheese for a cheap price, don't think to yourself "Hey, I like cheese, maybe I'll do that" the way my fiancee did the first time I took her. Trust me, unless you're basically so into cheese that you want to copulate with it, there's plenty of cheese on there already.) A 3-Way, despite what you may be thinking, is nothing dirty. If you talk to someone within the main Skyline realm of influence, and ask them if they are up for a 3-Way, they're likely to be thinking spaghetti with chili and cheese on top. Also, lest you go in with false expectations, this is Cincinnati style chili. Which means chili with no beans, very finely crumbled meat, cinnamon and even, to the experienced palate, a hint of chocolate. Do yourself a favor and don't knock until you've tried it though. In my lifetime, I have only come across one person who didn't immediately love it the first time they had it. Still don't know what's wrong with him...
SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Sorry, I cannot recommend to anyone that they eat chili with cinnamon and chocolate in it. And then they serve it on top of spaghetti. Blah. I think everyone in SW Ohio loves it, but the rest of the world, clearly has better taste buds.
Folks in Florida seem to be enjoying it, there are five locations that have opened up there recently. Not to mention it's sold (and purchased) in cans and frozen dinners in stores throughout a good portion of the Eastern US.
Perhaps some folks would be better off if they stopped thinking of it so much as "chili" since evidently that comes with too many pre-associations about what it should be like. (Personally, I have no problem with there being two different kinds of chili, but I have run into a lot of people who have difficulties accepting Skyline/Gold Star/other brands of Cincy style chili as true "chili") You might be better served to think of it as a sauce. Suddenly, it doesn't sound so weird to put it on a dog or on some spaghetti.
All the same I don't actually think that it's for everybody. What food is? But if you're looking for a little of the local flavor, which a lot of people do like, then I recommend giving it a shot.
Sorry, I was mostly joking. I just do not see the appeal of the stuff, and I always find it funny how everyone from the Cincy area seems to rave about it. Obviously everybody's tastes are different, can't think of anything that appeals to everybody.
As to calling it Chili -vs- Sauce, I don't really care. To me Chili is Texas Red (meat and chiles, NO BEANS). It's not the semantics I don't like about Cincy style...I just don't like the mix of cinnamon/chocolate with the flavors...to each their own though.
Ydfalcon wrote:
Hofbrauhaus is pretty awesome. Finally made it down there for a visit a few months ago and can't wait to go back.
Anyway, if it were me, I'd recommend taking I-75 North straight through Cincy. Yes, you'll go right through downtown, and if you hit at the wrong time, it can be pretty busy, but in my experience, 275 is a horrible bypass and loops out too far to save you any time.
Yeah, I don't actually every really take 275 to get around Cincy. My Grandparents live in West Harrison so I drive up and down it quite a bit though. You are right its not a time saver, but given they may be over that way if you don't like lots of downtown driving its an option.
MarkL wrote:This summer was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The Neill Armstrong museum is along I-75 in a town called Wapakoneta or something to that effect. Great place to visit. I also suggest the Air Force Museum in Dayton. Also - while you're still in SW Ohio - eat some Skyline. Cincinnati tradition and I greatly miss it when I'm away from my little corner of the state.
A note on that to the uninitiated. Don't just order a bowl of chili. While they will serve it to you that way, it's really not the kind of chili you just eat a bowl of. When I introduce someone to Skyline, I tell them they have to get at least one Cheese Coney and a small 3-Way. These are basically Skyline's signature items. Cheese coneys, most people know what they are. A hot dog with chili and cheese. (By the way, if you're there during one of the times they're offering to double the amount of cheese for a cheap price, don't think to yourself "Hey, I like cheese, maybe I'll do that" the way my fiancee did the first time I took her. Trust me, unless you're basically so into cheese that you want to copulate with it, there's plenty of cheese on there already.) A 3-Way, despite what you may be thinking, is nothing dirty. If you talk to someone within the main Skyline realm of influence, and ask them if they are up for a 3-Way, they're likely to be thinking spaghetti with chili and cheese on top. Also, lest you go in with false expectations, this is Cincinnati style chili. Which means chili with no beans, very finely crumbled meat, cinnamon and even, to the experienced palate, a hint of chocolate. Do yourself a favor and don't knock until you've tried it though. In my lifetime, I have only come across one person who didn't immediately love it the first time they had it. Still don't know what's wrong with him...
SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Sorry, I cannot recommend to anyone that they eat chili with cinnamon and chocolate in it. And then they serve it on top of spaghetti. Blah. I think everyone in SW Ohio loves it, but the rest of the world, clearly has better taste buds.
I think you are earning a spot on my ignore list. Three cheese coneys and I'm in heaven. The BG one wasn't very good, though - not the same atmosphere, cheese wasn't half as good, something just didn't taste right with the chili. Only in Cincy is it done right. I introduced my fiance (from NW Ohio) to it and she's now an addict. Even our exchange student from Slovakia enjoyed Cincinnati-style Skyline Chili. Man, I miss Cincy again ...
Oh - my aunt who moved to Alaska a few years ago demands a toll when you go up to visit - three cans or more of Skyline chili. Don't pay up and you're back on the airplane. In fact when she got married about fifteen years back in Cincinnati, the entire wedding took a quick stop at Skyline on the way to the reception. There's some photos of her in her wedding dress with a trash bag over it as a bib enjoying the taste of home.
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You may all now return to your daily lives.
MarkL wrote:This summer was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The Neill Armstrong museum is along I-75 in a town called Wapakoneta or something to that effect. Great place to visit. I also suggest the Air Force Museum in Dayton. Also - while you're still in SW Ohio - eat some Skyline. Cincinnati tradition and I greatly miss it when I'm away from my little corner of the state.
A note on that to the uninitiated. Don't just order a bowl of chili. While they will serve it to you that way, it's really not the kind of chili you just eat a bowl of. When I introduce someone to Skyline, I tell them they have to get at least one Cheese Coney and a small 3-Way. These are basically Skyline's signature items. Cheese coneys, most people know what they are. A hot dog with chili and cheese. (By the way, if you're there during one of the times they're offering to double the amount of cheese for a cheap price, don't think to yourself "Hey, I like cheese, maybe I'll do that" the way my fiancee did the first time I took her. Trust me, unless you're basically so into cheese that you want to copulate with it, there's plenty of cheese on there already.) A 3-Way, despite what you may be thinking, is nothing dirty. If you talk to someone within the main Skyline realm of influence, and ask them if they are up for a 3-Way, they're likely to be thinking spaghetti with chili and cheese on top. Also, lest you go in with false expectations, this is Cincinnati style chili. Which means chili with no beans, very finely crumbled meat, cinnamon and even, to the experienced palate, a hint of chocolate. Do yourself a favor and don't knock until you've tried it though. In my lifetime, I have only come across one person who didn't immediately love it the first time they had it. Still don't know what's wrong with him...
SERIOUSLY!? In all my time I don't think I've ever met anyone that wasn't from SW Ohio that thought that stuff was even edible. There's a reason why the one in BG went out of business...it sucks.
Sorry, I cannot recommend to anyone that they eat chili with cinnamon and chocolate in it. And then they serve it on top of spaghetti. Blah. I think everyone in SW Ohio loves it, but the rest of the world, clearly has better taste buds.
BLASPHEMY
As you said in your other post its simply everyone likes different tastes. Skyline is to the Cincy area like Myles or Polleyes or Easy Street or Corner Grill is to BG, whenever someone says they are going to Cincy Skyline is always suggested, just like when people from other teams say they are coming to BG those places I listed are suggested. Locals love it no matter what, while some outsiders enjoy it while others don't
The BG one wasn't very good, though - not the same atmosphere, cheese wasn't half as good, something just didn't taste right with the chili. Only in Cincy is it done right. I introduced my fiance (from NW Ohio) to it and she's now an addict. Even our exchange student from Slovakia enjoyed Cincinnati-style Skyline Chili. Man, I miss Cincy again ...
