Your average Chicagolander would not like Skyline chili. It is nasty stuff. Ohio can keep it. Real chili does not have cinnamon in it.
The reason I heard Wendy’s got rid of Hot Dogs was because they are to hard to figure out how many to keep on hand. Some days they would sell like crazy and other days not so much. During a normal lunch rush you need to be able to estimate how mush food product to start cooking, without a solid average you would waste food or not have enough ready. It could really hold things up.
Yum! Foods, which owns KFC, A&W, Pizza Hut, and Long John Silvers has been experimenting with combination stores for the last few years. Near my house is a KFC/A&W which sells both chicken and burgers. I love going there to get chicken and A&W root beer on tap.
It’s not a matter of “real” chili vs. “fake” chili, but rather a matter of what cuisine the chili is based on. Cincinnati chili is based on Greek cuisine, unlike most chili, which is based on Tex-Mex cuisine.
Preach! When I lived in the local homeless shelter there were some people who would come in once a month to cook a “special” dinner for us. Often this was homemade chili or spaghetti. I soon stopped coming down for dinner on those nights, because both their chili and their spaghetti sauce tasted as if one of the primary flavorings was fruit punch or red Kool-Aid.
There’s a combo Taco Bell/Long John Silver’s across the street from my house, or as I call it “Captain Sanchez’ Greasy Hangover Hideout and Fry-a-teria.”
Sonic (mostly drive-ins) sells “foot long coneys” which are covered in cheese, onions, and chili. I know this because my husband occasionally gets a hankering for them. Sonic also sells corn dogs, which are hot dogs dipped in a cornmeal batter and deep fried. Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. Of course Sonic has also sold Frito chili pies, which are Fritos corn chips, chili, and onions. I don’t know if Sonic puts cheese on these or not, but we certainly do at home.
Anyone can make a hotdog. Very few can make a McDonald’s whatever just they way they do. They’d have to figure out how to make a McHotdog you couldn’t get anywhere else.
Actually, I prefer Texas-style chili too, and I’m not fond of Skyline on spaghetti. But man that stuff is great on coneys (chili dogs) with mustard, onions and shredded cheddar cheese. it’s the best chili dog going!
Where’s that at? I know of a Long John A&W, and a couple KenTacoHuts, but don’t recall seeing a KFCA&W around.
Heh, seriously. Who - in America, at least, where most of the members of this board are from - needs to have a corn dog explained to them? I find that about equivalent to explaining what a Chevrolet is, or who Babe Ruth was.
