Please do not mention that water with the word chili. I don't understand how they call that crap chili. The way they use the word please is odd (that's being nice). CVG is one of those towns that you see in movies. You know the one where some business guy is driving his car, and it breaks down in some town not on the map. He then realizes all the people have only one way of thinking, do their brothers and sisters, and will kill him for not having the same delusional, morbid thoughts they do. I always had to watch how I said hi because in cvg when you say hi to someone in passing they will stop you and start telling you about all the bad things going on in their life. And the rumor mill there is off the wall. Like the guy that said on here "I here from a source that we're sold to tsa on January 1st". Really you think tsa just bought you and is holding out till the 1st. Then during bankruptcy all the mid level senior capts saying vote for these cuts because we'll grow huge and these poor rules won't be bad since you'll be a capt next yr. How are those rules working out for ya. Damn I really did hate that place. Typing this ramble was like therapy.

 

Funny "please" story:

I had just arrived in Cincinnati for training. I went to Frisch's Big Boy. Well, being from the West Coast, I thought the familiarity of a Big Boy burger would help ease the pain. So the waitress comes up to the table and asks what I'd like to drink. I said, "I'll have a Diet Coke." She looked me right in the eye and said, "Please?" Incredulously, I said, "OK...May I have a Diet Coke PLEASE?" She laughed and said, "No silly, I meant WHAT." I said, "Ok, why didn't you just say WHAT then?" She laughed and brought me a Diet Coke and a Big Boy burger. I almost puked when I took the first bite. Who the hell puts TARTAR sauce on a cheeseburger? Really?!?! A real Big Boy burger uses Thousand Island, not tartar sauce. I just threw up a little in my mouth thinking about it.

I should've figured it out right then and there...

 

The chili there looks, tastes like crap. I have no idea why they think ginger flavored spaghetti sauce can be called chili but if I was on a deserted island and there was a case of Alpo dog food and a case of Skyline Chili they would find me dead with empty Alpo cans and a full case of chili still in the box.

 

Holy Crap! I think I may have hurt myself laughing so hard at your story!!!!

First time I heard "please" was on a DAL flight to CVG. A guy across from me in first class (pre-screwthecomairguyswithaS3C) was asking me something. I answered him, and he said, "Please?" I thought he was saying it as if he did not believe me (as in "N&*a Please!"). I was quite offended. I didn't talk to him anymore! LOL!

 

Why did you guys eat the "chili"? I've been in the Cincinnati area for nearly ten years, and I still haven't eaten it. I like chili a lot, but chili doesn't come with spaghetti underneath it.

 

The chili's not on my bucket list either.

 

This is analogous to the way Americans drink this watery stuff they call "beer." If the people of southwestern Ohio want to eat it, well all the more reason for people to feel smugly superior to them.

Oh, I know, if you had the same dish in Athens named something besides 'chili' you'd rave about it. But it's in boring Cincinnati, so it's okay to dis it.



BTW, I don't think that's ginger.

 

I'm not really this passionate about food, I just wanted to help keep the thread alive by getting all riled up.

 

LOL! If in Greece, I'd call it crappy Greek food!

I hated it the first time I had it, and later was dating a girl from Dayton and she insisted that I must have got a bad batch or something (because "Cincinnati chili is the best!"). I agreed to try it again at a different place...and yes, it still sucked.

 

Anyone have an answer to my other question? How many pilots on property now'days?