Cincinnati chili “three-way” with fries and the requisite oyster crackers. The fries were very good.
7. Camp Washington Chili, Cincinnati, Ohio (Oct. 31)
I have consumed Cincinnati chili and lived.
You might have heard of it under the name of a chain, Skyline. This is not from one of those; it’s a 75-year-old restaurant on the list of “1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die.” The chili is ground beef, an array of spices, and most important for me, no beans. I had the “three-way”, which is chili over spaghetti with LOTS of shredded cheese on top. I plopped the whole concoction upside down on a second plate, which was probably not the brightest move, but how else was I supposed to mix it?
The taste is hard to describe, but it’s got a zing that announces this is not spaghetti sauce. For me, this counts as being adventurous. It also served as 24 hours’ worth of food until the pizza in Seymour. Would I eat it again? Probably, sometime, if I ever make a fourth trip to one of the places that calls itself the Queen City.
Combine that meal with a free hot dog from the Indianapolis Police, served at the foot of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in below-normal temperatures with multiple forms of precipitation being spit at me, and Halloween 2019 was certainly a unique food day. The national FFA convention was going on in Indianapolis, meaning every hotel room at the airport was sold out.
Eastern Time Zone Trip: 13 new counties, 5 US route state clinches (IL US 136, IN US 136, OH US 27, IN US 50, IL US 50), 1 construction-imposed national non-clinch (US 136, 5 miles short), 1 26-hour day, 1 state capitol, 1 Underground Railroad museum, 1 baseball museum, and 1 college football game in the 150th anniversary year of the sport