# Utterly basic Chili **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799 "2010-01-21T04:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/41 "2010-01-23T22:35:18Z")
While Cincinnati chili is usually served on top of spaghetti, it doesn’t particularly resemble what most folks would call spaghetti sauce. Nor, for that matter, does it particularly resemble what most folks would call chili. It’s very good, but it has to be appreciated on its own merits, not by trying to make it out to be something it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/42 "2010-01-23T22:38:06Z")
[hijack] [Help me find “The Ultimate Chili Book” (not Christopher B. Ohara’s)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=549067) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/43 "2010-01-23T23:47:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > While Cincinnati chili is usually served on top of spaghetti, it doesn’t particularly resemble what most folks would call spaghetti sauce. Nor, for that matter, does it particularly resemble what most folks would call chili. It’s very good, but it has to be appreciated on its own merits, not by trying to make it out to be something it’s not. Another distinguishing feature: In Cincinnati chili, the meat (beef in a fine hamburger grind, not a coarse “chili grind,” let alone quarter-inch cubes) is boiled without first being browned. That’s to make it tender. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/44 "2010-01-24T00:24:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Truer words have not been spoken. I have made the pilgrimage to Lockhart… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/45 "2010-01-24T02:25:15Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I have made the pilgrimage to Lockhart… Kreuz, Black’s or Smitty’s? I owe allegiance to the last one. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/46 "2010-01-24T05:20:40Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I have made the pilgrimage to Lockhart… What state is that in? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/47 "2010-01-24T05:52:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What state is that in? Texas. One of these days I’ll have to make my way to Texas and try some of that beef barbecue I’ve been hearing about. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799/48 "2010-01-24T16:54:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Kreuz, Black’s or Smitty’s? I owe allegiance to the last one. Kreuz Market. Haven’t had Smitty’s or Blacks yet, although my wife isn’t too partial to Black’s, so I think it may be a while until I have that. All it’ll take to go to Smitty’s is an open lunch the next time we’re at the in-laws in S. Austin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-basic-chili/525799.md?page=2)