No, sorry. Can't do it

One of my ex's was from Ohio and lived on that stuff. I had never heard of it until I met him. I put chili on baked potatoes but I've never tried it on noodles.

Sounds like Cincinnati chili: https://whatscookingamerica.net/Beef/CincinnatiChili.htm

I like it served over egg noodles or rice with shredded cheese.

Cincinnati Chili over spaghetti is classic diner food. It or similar versions was on several restaurant menus in the 50's through the 70's here in California. You don't see it often anymore but it is still around.

I like my chili with crackers or a nice knarly piece of bread. I just can't get into eating it over pasta, rice or potatoes. A good chili dog is hard to beat though!

I'd eat it if it is good chili!

It's the only way my grandkids will eat chili is over pasta.

Me, I prefer home made chili, hot, spicy, meat and vegetables, alone with a glass of water. Oh, and too thick to run off the spoon.

Next day chili dogs using Nathan's of course.

Skyline is sort of popular here but IMO they don't know much about delicious chili. Meh.

Mmmm, no, doesn't appeal. If I want starch with chili I like rice.

We had chili with beans and spaghetti growing up a lot. So much so that I don't eat spaghetti now.

Rice with chili? That's a new one to me as well.

I learned to eat chili over rice in Hawaii at a Zippy's drive in restaurant in the 1960s.

Hmmmmm, I've never heard of that combination. I like shredded cheddar cheese and a big dollop of sour cream in my chili.

Chili with elbow macroni is pretty popular.

I enjoy a cup of chili with a spoon of cole slaw on top once in awhile otherwise just with crackers.

I love chili with meat and beans, served with spaghetti or macaroni. Grew up on it.

I must have been hiding under a rock all my life, I've never seen or heard of chili over rice or pasta. I've seen it, I think have had it, at a potato bar where they have about a hundred toppings for baked potatoes as a meal.

I don't remember ever eating spaghetti with sauce, canned or otherwise when growing up. On the other hand, DH's father made it almost every Sunday, beginning the sauce in the morning and simmering, seasoning, tasting, making changes all day long.

I think this is a regional taste. For me, it's chili with beans or chili without beans when served over a hot dog as two old and famous LA hot dog stands serve (Pink's and Tommy's).

I dislike having two starches in one meal as many of you seem to like so chili with beans with any other kind of starch, whether rice or noodles, sounds gross and something that should be served with an insulin shot as a chaser.

This is making me hungry for a Coney dog at Angelos (Sp) in Flint . Not a chili dog!

In Memphis you better tell them to hold the spaghetti if you order chili! I was pretty freaked out the first time I got chili when we lived there. I had never heard of that.

I do like chili Mac on occasion. Every winter when we lived in Oklahoma, we had a big winter party. I made a huge batch of homemade chili Mac. It was always a good time.

I've made chili mac before but not with spaghetti noodles, usually macaroni or some other small type of pasta.

Cincinnati Chili is it's own beast. It should have a different name. Like Cincinnati warm spice bolognese. Served 5 ways. Spaghetti, meat sauce, room temp dark red kidney beans, chopped raw onions and shredded cheddar cheese. Don't turn your nose up at it until you've tried it's deliciousness.

Is chili mac just pasta of some shape, ground beef and tomatoes? My mother made it and called it slumgullion. Comfort food.

We called that goulash.

marylmi,

I've eaten at quite a few of the Coney Island diners. Novi, Livonia, Plymouth, Detroit, etc. I'll have to check out the Flint location next time I'm visiting family.

If you ever travel south to Toledo, try Tony Packo's Cafe for specialty hot dogs and Hungarian dishes.

I've never heard of that, but if you say chili fries I'm all in. I normally serve my chili on a bed of GOOD rice (not Minute Rice. ew!). But had chili fries in a restaurant out of curiosity once and realized I do like something on my fries other than ketchup. But spaghetti? No. That just sounds so wrong.

eta: I grew up with just a bowl of chili. Then I worked in a restaurant and they served it over rice. I really liked it, so that's how I serve it now. It also helped tone down the heat (I make mine very spicy!). The more rice you put with the chili, the more you tone down the heat so you don't burn your mouth on the spices. IMO: if your nose doesn't run when you're eating chili, it isn't made right. :)

Brushworks, This was quite a few years ago so they may not even be around now. We lived in Davison and Angelos was very well known. A lot of places would advertise that they had Flint coney dogs, but they were just chili dogs. Whiteys in Davison was well known for their Friday night fish . . I haven't been down there in years.

Honestly, I don't understand being picky about chili. Beans, any meat, starch or not, put it in a bowl and I'm happy

Seagrass is exactly right "Cincinnati Chili" is different in many ways from what many places calls "Chili". In my opinion putting "Chili" on spaghetti is weird and gross, but putting "Cincinnati Chili" on spaghetti is "comfort food" and is delicious. In my mind "Chili" and "Cincinnati Chili" have about as much in common as a cat and a polecat.

I have a similar strong opinion about putting "Chili" on a hot dog, which is wrong. While "Cincinnati Chili" on a hot dog, is simply meant to be.

I don't see any comments about using chili as a dip like we do at my house, with tortilla scoops & a big dollop of Daisy sour cream, soooo yummy!!

Lisa,

I too use tortilla scoops, drop in taco meet, sprinkle cheddar and then a little (teaspoon) dollop of sour cream. It's one of my junk food indulgences when I am off my diet.

Raven - my caregiver lives in Memphis and says she has never heard of spaghetti in chili. For me, I love chili on spaghetti with some onion and grated cheese. I also like elbow macaroni mixed with chili, we called it "chili mac". I lived in Cincinnati for 10 years and probably had Skyway chili 10 times, once a year was enough! I can buy it here in Tennessee in the freezer section and have a taste for it every now and then.