How do we not have anyone staking out the "It's delicious, but the stuff they make in Cincinnati is not chili" position?

I don't have a position on chili. If it has black beans, hamburger meat, tomatoes, and chili peppers, it's chili. Wait, that may be a position. Sorry.

How do we not have anyone staking out the "It's delicious, but the stuff they make in Cincinnati is not chili" position?

I assume that was the default position of anyone not from here. I don't even try to defend against it any more. We know what it is.

I don't have a position on chili. If it has black beans, hamburger meat, tomatoes, and chili peppers, it's chili. Wait, that may be a position. Sorry.

That's not what Skyline is, though. It's like a meat sauce. (I wouldn't actually eat a bowl of it, like I do with the chili I make at home, but I still call Skyline "chili." Because there's also white chicken chili, which bears no resemblance to Texas chili tyet still bears the name. I figure if white chicken chili gets to be called "chili", then so does Skyline, and if haters don't like it, that just means more for us.)

This is what the chili looks like, without 4 cups of shredded cheese to obscure it: [link]

t edit I am not even kidding about the amount of cheese: [link] It's not McDonald's that will kill us all; it's all the cheese on our 4-ways.

I don't eat chili because I'm not a fan of peppers, and chili often devolves into a masochism game. I prefer not to get chemical burns from my food. (My enchiladas have half the cayenne the recipe calls for, and my annotated recipe says "cheese until it feels silly".) Still, Skyline looks worth trying.

Skyline isn't a spicy chili. It has cinnamon and chocolate in the ingredients (it doesn't taste sweet, though, and I maintain you can't taste the cinnamon or chocolate). There's not a bit of spice to it.

oh man right now my poor E. He's sick, has a fever and had to come home early and he's devastated because he knows school is almost over and he's not going to have much time with his teacher.

And he's just sobbing and crying and saying almost wailing his teacher's name over and over and I want to go hug him but he wants to be left alone. So Mom and I are trying to give him the space he wants. But it's so hard not to go in there and just hug him.

In that case, my position is that Skyline is not chili, but I'd eat it.

New Mexico checking in. Chili = meat, water, and chile. Green or red. If you have to add beans, pinto beans. No tomatoes.

All other things are meat sauces or stews that call themselves chili, and I generally like them, but I'm just now coming to terms with the idea that the meat in chili could be ground beef rather than chunks of mutton or beef or pulled pork.

My parents and sister left. It was nice to see them, but now I'm sitting in the sun and relaxing and breathing. I love my mother, but she kind of takes a lot of energy.