Cincinnati-style chili is worse than being hit by a car, according to a writer at Deadspin.
Albert Burneko penned this week a column titled, “The Great American Menu, Foods of the States, Ranked & Mapped”.
The local favorite is used to represent the state of Ohio and is ranked at the bottom of the list, at #52. Burneko writes:
Cincinnati chili is the worst, saddest, most depressing goddamn thing in the world. If it came out of the end of your digestive system, you would turn the color of chalk and call an ambulance, but at least it’d make some sense. The people of Ohio see nothing wrong with inserting it into their mouths, which perhaps tells you everything you need to know about the Buckeye State. Don’t eat it. Don’t let your loved ones eat it. Turn away from the darkness, and toward the deep-dish pizza.
There’s more in the article.
Meanwhile, Burneko selected burgoo to represent Kentucky and placed the dish at a respectable twelfth place on the list:
Kentucky’s signature food, a whatever-you-got stew that never tastes the same twice, gets a million imaginary bonus points for its wonderful communal nature: People just bring whatever ingredients they can, and everybody puts what they’ve got into the stew, and out comes burgoo, and that is just fucking beautiful, even though in reality probably 78 percent of its ingredients were scraped off I-64 with a snow shovel.
The article is getting hundreds of thousands of views and drawing comments of agreement and scorn, like this one:
I’m not going to give you any sort of guff for some of the painful missteps on this list BUT ONLY BECAUSE of you are so very, extremely, perfectly, absolutely, totally, completely, utterly, sublimely, etc.ly CORRECT about that vile Skyline chili mess that people in Ohio claim to be food. It is not food. It is an insult to the mouths of humankind.
See the full article: Deadspin
