Official: SMU vs. Skyline Chili (Cinci)

[Harry0569]

Skyline is the worst

[Harry0569]

Go Ponies

[Harry0569]

http://deadspin.com/the-great-american- ... 1349137024

51. Being hit by a car

52. Cincinnati chili (Ohio)

For the mercifully unacquainted, "Cincinnati chili," the worst regional foodstuff in America or anywhere else, is a horrifying diarrhea sludge (most commonly encountered in the guise of the "Skyline" brand) that Ohioans slop across plain spaghetti noodles and hot dogs as a way to make the rest of us feel grateful that our own shit-eating is (mostly) figurative. The only thing "chili" about it is the shiver that goes down your spine when you watch Ohio sports fans shoveling it into their maws on television and are forced to reckon with the cold reality that, for as desperately as you might cling to faltering notions of community and universality, ultimately your fellow human beings are as foreign and unknowable to you as the surface of Pluto, and you are alone and always have been and will die alone, a world unto yourself unmarked and unmapped and totally, hopelessly isolated.

But wait! This abominable garbage-gravy isn't just sensorily and spiritually disgusting—it's culturally grotesque, too! What began as an ethnic curio born of immigrant make-do—a Greek-owned chili parlor that took its "Skyline" name from its view of the city of Cincinnati—is now a hulking private-equity-owned corporate monolith that gins up interest in its unmistakably abhorrent product by engineering phony groups of "chili fanatics" to camp out in advance of the opening of new chains, in locations whose residents would otherwise see this shit-broth for what it is and take up torches and truncheons to drive it back into the wilderness.

Whatever virtue this bad-tasting Z-grade atrocity once contained derived from its exemplification of a set of certain cherished American fables—immigrant ingenuity, the cultural melting pot, old things combining into new things—and has now been totally swamped and consumed by different and infinitely uglier American realities: the commodification of culture; the transmutation of authentic artifacts of human life into hollow corporate brand divisions; the willingness of Americans to slop any horrible goddamn thing into their [deleted] mouths if it claims to contain some byproduct of a cow and comes buried beneath a pyramid of shredded, waxy, safety-cone-orange "cheese."

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.

[CalallenStang]

Skyline is the worst

Skyline is awesome. Go Ponies

[Harry0569]

KenPom predicts a 60-55 win and gives us a 71% chance of winning.

[Harry0569]

Skyline is the worst

Skyline is awesome. Go Ponies

Agree to disagree.

[CalallenStang]

Skyline is the worst

Skyline is awesome. Go Ponies

Agree to disagree.

I will say that you definitely have to be in the mood for it

[gostangs]

it most definitely is not awesome. it is the product of midwesterners with no access to anything good in life.

[SMU Pony Mom]

Things get real now!

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Getting ready early for this one!

Go Ponies!

[PonyKai]

Skyline is dogsh*t.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

A jumbo three-way sounds awesome right now...

[Terry Webster]

I can't stand Cincinnati chili on spaghetti or a hot dog, but it is pretty good in a 7 layer chili dip with chips.

[lwjr]

That is is hysterical. Sadly, I was in Louisville first of the month for the funeral of one of my closest friend's wife. Several people prepared spaghetti with this chili. It was awful. My friend can't stand it as well, he is from Texas originally. We laughed about it but just the sight of it makes you ask, WTF?

[Mustangs35SMU]

Pony the hell Up.

Beat the hell out of em.